More than half of University of Wisconsin System students believe campuses should disinvite speakers who are thought to be offensive, a free speech survey conducted last fall found.
A majority of University of Wisconsin System students don’t feel free to share their opinions about controversial topics or are unwilling to consider views they disagree with, according to results released Wednesday from a survey that has stirred controversy across the 13 campuses.
(Video) UW-Madison students share their thoughts on free speech. Results of the University of Wisconsin System’s free speech survey are expected this afternoon.
According to UW-Madison spokeswoman Kelly Tyrrell, the university tries to minimize its salt use to protect the city’s waterways. Some of those efforts include closing redundant sidewalks and steps, removing snow prior to salting and using a liquid brine solution before snow falls.
Daniel Howell Jr. , a former Badger football player with two decades of experience in social services but a newcomer to electoral politics, is running for mayor as a write-in candidate.
This month’s theme, Black Arts: Multiple Mediums, One Story, champions commemorating the art that Black people have created throughout history.
UW students battle for positions in dorms to earn free housing, represent Madison housing crisis.
Kay LeClaire, formerly known as “nibiiwakamigkwe” received nearly $5,000 through the School of Human Ecology’s Center for Design and Material Culture.
The teachers came to the School of Education during a six-week stretch in the fall semester to share teaching practices, new pedagogies and ways to confront global challenges such as media literacy.
King was appointed unanimously by the UW System Board of Regents, and student leaders expressed excitement for the new leadership.
So why didn’t they report what they knew? McGarr, a historian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, thinks it’s because the people who covered Washington for the wire services and the major dailies had an ideology.
Some panelists pointed out the results showed stark differences in responses based on political views. “The difference in how students feel on campus, whether they are conservative or liberal, that is probably the most dramatic difference in the results that are here in the survey,” said Rep. Dave Murphy, R-Greenville.
Most students who responded to a survey about free speech on University of Wisconsin campuses said they’re afraid to express their views on controversial topics in class because they fear other students won’t agree or it could hurt their grades, according to findings released Wednesday.
“So literally I could just buy health and wellness,” explained Christine Whalen, a professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin. “And that sounds very enticing.”
When Biden’s Title IX proposals go into effect, they will “have the force of law behind them, more so than just the ‘Dear Colleague’ letter the Obama administration issued,” said Suzanne Eckes, a former lawyer and schoolteacher, and now a professor of education law, policy, and practice at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
The current tension between state laws and some Islamic beliefs may be setting the stage for further legal battles over abortion. Asifa Quraishi-Landes, an Islamic and constitutional law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, argues that abortion bans tread on Muslims’ First Amendment rights.
“There are people who say we shouldn’t touch nature, that we shouldn’t alter anything. But really, there are no pristine natural habitats left,” said Tony Goldberg, a disease ecologist and veterinarian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who supports vaccinating wildlife when it’s safe and practical. “People are waking up to the magnitude of the problem and realizing they have to do something.”
Each year, hundreds of gallons of soup are served during a UW-Madison Habitat for Humanity fundraiser.
While the difference was offset in some years with aid that did not apply to the revenue limit, public school advocate and former University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education dean Julie Underwood said numbers like that justify a major increase in budgets ahead.
She characterized the state of education funding in Wisconsin as “really abysmal,” suggesting that the state is “so far behind” where it should be given the increasing costs of the past decade. “We need a ladder up to where we should have been,” Underwood said.
The salary pool for University of Wisconsin football assistants is on track to surpass last season’s total after the university turned over five of the 10 coaches’ contracts Tuesday.
Klingelhoets, 72, a former UW-Madison tennis coach, grabbed his auger and made a quick dash to the exhausted and panicked Keenan, who was fighting for her life. While holding the blade end of the cork-screw auger, Klingelhoets extended the handle end to Keenan, who grabbed hold, and then, at the urging of Klingelhoets, began kicking her feet as Klingelhoets pulled, his boots planted in the snow to give him leverage. Working together, Keenan was finally able to slide on her belly onto thicker ice, then crawl and ultimately walk away from the open water.
In the early 1980s, she worked for the precursor to DOIT at the UW, where she met her lifelong friends Lis Owens and Bernadette Rhiel. From 1991 to her retirement in 2014, Joan served as the Administrator in the German Department at the UW, where she made many friends among the faculty and graduate students, too many really to mention individually.
The Madison School District has potential to lead and succeed, Jenkins said, saying the community has the “right ingredients,” from a diverse student population to committed staff and fixtures in the community like UW-Madison. He acknowledged there is an “elitism” in Madison that can sometimes hold progress back, but said with that also comes opportunity.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has yet to fill the position of vice provost for data, academic planning and institutional research since Jan. 1 following the retirement of Jocelyn Milner at the end of the 2021-22 academic year.
UW’s Suzuki Lab develops new meat substitution amid concerns over GMOs, rising food costs.
Christy Remucal, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at UW-Madison, said addressing PFAS can be “very tricky.” While the chemicals can be tested for and identified, there is not yet a way to conduct large-scale removal and destruction of the contaminant.
Relocation proposed to accommodate growing School of Public Affairs.
Hillel Foundation commemorates Holocaust at community gathering.
That’s Dr. Yi Fuxian. He’s a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. And in the last few years, he’s become kind of a demography whistleblower. He believes China’s own data shows the population actually started shrinking in 2018 and that the state willfully inflated its numbers by more than 100 million people.
UW-Madison spokesperson Kelly Tyrrell said the Facilities department uses salt as needed to keep its 13 miles of roads and 60 miles of sidewalks safe for use. Staff minimize salt usage by closing off redundant sidewalks and stairs on campus, using brine on roads if able and avoiding using salt while it’s actively snowing. Staff is trained to use the minimum amount of salt and opt for removing snow with plows or shovels.
“Exceptions can occur on machines intended to distribute bulk salt. For example, plow trucks upon start-up can unintentionally drop a bit more salt,” Tyrrell said. “(The Facilities department) has long been focused on reducing salt use wherever and whenever possible.”
(PHOTO CAPTION) The TikTok app logo is pictured in Tokyo, Sept. 28, 2020. University of Wisconsin System officials said Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023, that they will restrict the use of TikTok on system devices.
We’ll never convince others of the merits of our opinions if we don’t trust one another sufficiently to sincerely engage in what the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents wisely identified more than a century ago as “that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”
Standing in New York’s Museum of Modern Art this January, composer Laura Schwendinger received a call from librettist Ginger Strand with life-changing news: They had just won a $50,000 award for their 2019 opera “Artemisia.”
“The fundamental problem is that U.S. News doesn’t value what UW Law School values,” UW Law School Dean Dan Tokaji said.
Student Leadership Program budget altered to fund programs, account for price inflation.
The awards are presented to all types of faculty members whose teaching deserves acknowledgement and reward, according to the Office of the Secretary of the Faculty.
The Comeback Carnival is the first event of the semester for many student organizations, providing an opportunity to encourage involvement and promote upcoming events.
Tainlin Yang is the President of the CSSA at UW Madison. He and fellow students have been working hard to organize this year’s Spring Festival Gala to ring in the New Year with Chinese music and dancing.
Thirteen-year-old “Ants and Agriculture” exhibit closes, new exhibit to come.
Article co-authored by Tessa Conroy, associate professor in the Agriculture and Applied Economics, College of Agricultural & Life Sciences.
She eventually became Program Director in Distance Education Professional Development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before retiring in 2013.
The Wisconsin football running back room is no stranger to coaching transitions at this point, but Luke Fickell may have found a long-term answer on his staff to lead the tailbacks.
The board voted in closed session to approve athletic department recommendations and add a year to agreements with volleyball coach Kelly Sheffield, women’s soccer coach Paula Wilkins and men’s soccer coach Neil Jones.
Jack began his career as a teacher and principal in the Racine and Madison school districts, but he spent most of his career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was hired as the first Director of High School Relations in 1963. In his 31 years there, he was also Director of Undergraduate Orientation, New Student Services, and Associate Director of Undergraduate Admissions. He was instrumental in developing the SOAR program and was Marshall at UW commencement ceremonies for 20 years.
Madison’s dire off-campus student housing shortage has found a new way to cause headaches at UW-Madison: Housefellowships.
Since the UW Cinematheque film screening series reopened after shutting down during the pandemic, director Jim Healy has noticed something different about the audiences.
That’s not such a bad thing, said Menzie Chinn, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin. “To the extent that there’s still many job openings relative to people willing to take those jobs, then we do want to see some reduction in demand for labor,” he said.
Arugula (Eruca sativa) isn’t only delicious on sandwiches, bagels, and salads, but it’s also super simple to grow in a hydroponic garden, as told by Eden Green. Like other leafy greens, this plant is packed with good things such as vitamin K and iron. When growing arugula in a traditional garden, it is known to become weedy, as per the University of Wisconsin-Madison, so planting it indoors this way offers multiple benefits.
Meanwhile, the law schools at Gonzaga University, Seattle University and the University of Wisconsin at Madison announced that they will not participate in the law school rankings. Wisconsin dean Dan Tokaji said, “The ranking contravenes UW Law’s mission of providing an outstanding legal education at an accessible price so our graduates can pursue any career path they choose” and “The ranking undermines UW Law’s core value of equal access to the legal profession by penalizing schools in states that allow licensure without the bar exam.”
Yi Fuxian, an obstetrics and gynaecology researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an expert on China’s population changes, said the marriage requirement related to the previous birth limits, ensuring that there was only one child (or later, two or three children) born to one man and woman.
Over the month of January, a three-person team comprised of HVO geophysicist Ashton Flinders, University of Wisconsin at Madison PhD candidate Claire Ruggles, and University of Wisconsin student Sophia Thompson will measure gravity at more than 400 locations around Kīlauea’s summit.
Cleerly has established a number of partnerships, including American College of Cardiology, Canon Medical, Heartbeat Health and several others. Cleerly works with a number of universities for its studies and clinical trials, including Mass General Brigham, University of Virginia, University of Wisconsin, Oregon Health Sciences University, George Washington University, Houston Methodist Hospital, UCLA and Scripps Clinic.
According to its statement, UW Law School said the rankings do not align with the school’s “missions and goals” of accessibility and affordability.
When I left the University of Wisconsin in 2011, I’d borrowed around $30,000 in student loans. I don’t know the exact balance, because I didn’t think about or look at the debt for at least four years. When a woman from the university’s financial aid office finally got me on the phone in late 2014, she let me know my loans were (obviously) in default. She also explained how to get out.
Dr. Armando Ibarra, a professor in the School for Workers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a former director of Chican@ & Latin@ Studies, has been named a distinguished alumnus by his undergraduate alma mater, California State University, Chico.
When the Federal Reserve convenes at the end of January 2023 to set interest rates, it will be guided by one key bit of data: the U.S. inflation rate. The problem is, that stat ignores a sizable chunk of the country – rural America. -Tessa Conroy, Development Specialist, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Our faculty, staff and students are eager to take this history and use it to make our campus a better place for everyone,” said Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin in a statement. “With the new center, we are committing to embedding the mission of the Public History Project in the daily life of campus and in our decision-making.”
See the counties with above-average life expectancy in Wisconsin using data from the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.
Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said in a statement that naming the center after Blank, who left UW-Madison last year and whose plans to become president of Northwestern University were hindered by a cancer diagnosis, was a way to recognize her role in creating the Public History Project.
UW Health became one of about two dozen U.S. centers doing a range of fetal surgeries after Lobeck, who was trained in the specialty, arrived in September 2021. Six months later, UW Health opened its Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment Center in collaboration with UnityPoint Health-Meriter.
