Asecond UW-Madison international student has been granted protection from deportation just weeks before graduating, and a judge has ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to restore her visa after the administration deleted her record earlier this month.
Two college leaders in Wisconsin signed a letter criticizing the Trump administration’s efforts to control universities and punish those that do not bend to his will.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin and Beloit College Eric Boynton were among 200 college leaders nationally who signed the April 22 letter condemning government overreach.
A 2020 report from the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found the number of days hotter than 90 degrees is likely to triple in Wisconsin by mid-century, and Milwaukee could see three times as many days with a heat index above 105 degrees by 2050.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin signed an open letter Tuesday condemning the Trump administration’s “unprecedented political interference” in public research funding, joining over 220 other higher education leaders.
Andrea Dutton, a University of Wisconsin-Madison geologist, recalled researchers cataloging fossil corals in Papua New Guinea, only to find their study site uplifted by a sudden earthquake, which jumbled the geological record of historic sea levels. Aside from shifting coastlines, gravitational forces can distribute water unequally across the planet.
“That’s why it’s so important to look at many sites,” Dutton said. “They all have different stories, yet clearly one thing must have happened in terms of global sea level.”
As Trump administration withholds research funds, targets international students, faculty, Big Ten should push for united response against unconstitutional actions.
For the last five years, the federal government has not penalized borrowers for not making student loan payments. But the U.S. Education Department announced Monday it would begin collections May 5 on student loans that are in default.
In Wisconsin, this could affect the 725,000 borrowers who have outstanding payments totaling $23.6 billion in federal student loan payments.
Taylor Odle, who studies education policy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said a lot of uncertainty remains on how closing or gutting the U.S. Department of Education would specifically affect students and schools. But the effects would be widespread.
“I think it would be very hard to say that there’s going to be some area of Wisconsin that isn’t impacted by these changes,” said Odle, who clarified he wasn’t speaking on behalf of UW-Madison. Wisconsin and other states are “not well-equipped to take over (the agency’s) functions,” he added.
Armenta came to Madison from Santa Cruz, California, in 2019 to pursue a master of fine art degree in printmaking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Finding studio space has been a challenge from the beginning of his art career, he said.
The film about UW-Madison alum and former professor John Francis was shortlisted at this year’s Oscars.
Turning Point USA’s chapter map also shows chapters at many Wisconsin colleges and universities, including at most University of Wisconsin campuses.
Dugan, 65, graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1987. Since then, she spent a large swath of her career working for the poor and vulnerable, first with legal aid organizations and then as executive director of Catholic Charities.
