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Walsh: We must hate our children

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Salon.com

Next time you?re watching a college graduation, as you look out over the sea of caps and gowns, make sure you notice the ball and chain most graduates are wearing as they march onstage to receive their diplomas. That?s student loan debt, which at over $1 trillion tops credit card debt in the U.S. today. The average burden is $28,000, but add in their credit cards and they?re graduating with an average of $35,000 in debt. It?s no wonder that people who?ve paid off their student loan debt are 36 percent more likely to own homes than those who haven?t, according to new research by the One Wisconsin Now Institute and Progress Now.

Aftermath of for-profit fight in Wisconsin

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Inside Higher Ed

Noted: It wasn?t just for-profits that had quibbles with the process. Sara Goldrick-Rab, an associate professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, was on the 10-member panel that was to consider the standards. According to an audio recording of the panel?s one meeting, Goldrick-Rab took issue with what she saw as flawed and “instigating” data the board?s staff members had used to come up with the benchmarks. She criticized their focus on “input data” without adequate attention to the academic preparation of students who attend the state?s for-profits.

How the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism won

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Capital Times

Greg Downey, director of the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication, ?breathed a long sigh of relief? on Sunday when Gov. Scott Walker vetoed a provision of the biennial budget that would have prohibited collaboration between his department and the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism.

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Opinion: Tweeting to the Top

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The Scientist Magazine

Research by UW-Madison’s Dominique Brossard, Dietram A. Scheufele and Sara Yeo shows that scientists who interact more frequently with journalists on Twitter have higher academic impact (using h-index) than peers, as do scientists whose work was mentioned on Twitter.

How Wisconsin’s watchdogs kept their home

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Columbia Journalism Review

DETROIT, MI ? The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism scored a big win over the weekend, as Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, vetoed a budget provision approved by GOP legislators that would have expelled the nonprofit newsroom from its offices at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. The measure, passed in early June at the conclusion of a marathon overnight session, also would have prohibited university employees from doing any work related to the WCIJ.

Rain keeping Wisconsin mosquitoes at bay

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AP

Quoted: ?There are years when we get so much rain that we literally flush them out of their typical breeding sites,? University of Wisconsin-Madison entomologist Phil Pellitteri told the newspaper. ?You need 10 to 12 days of standing water to push mosquitoes in the summer. If you get excess amount of rain, you flush them out and they never get going.?

Lundin: ?With That, I?m In?

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New York Times

Teaching writing behind bars is transformational work for the teacher as well as the taught. The intense focus of a locked room and locked life creates a tension that resonates deeply in the teaching and learning process, as revealed in Helen Elaine Lee?s essay ?Visible Men? (June 16).

Archaeologists seek to unearth mysteries at Aztalan State Park

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Aztalan State Park is deceptively bucolic. On a sunny day, it?s a field of green grass on sculpted mounds of earth. The sweltering silence carries whispers of wind and the nearby Crawfish River. Occasionally, a cry of a peacock from a nearby farm pierces the air.

UW pulls plug on WiscNet contract

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Wisconsin Radio Network

Under political pressure from Republicans in the legislature, the University of Wisconsin System has rescinded a recent contract with its broadband provider. The UW System itself provides employees and hardware for WiscNet, which is a nonprofit organization providing internet access to campuses, public schools and libraries and state government agencies.

Russell Wilson Passing Academy

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ESPN WIsconsin

MADISON ? Russell Wilson played at the University of Wisconsin for 14 games during the 2011 season. In his short time of eligibility as a Badger Wilson led Wisconsin into the first ever Big Ten championship game ? and won. Students, Alumni, and fans will not soon forget the season that Wilson had here; the same way he won?t forget the city that helped make his dream a reality.

UW-Madison PEOPLE Program profile of success grows in for Milwaukee students

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Milwaukee Courier

If their teachers ask what they did for summer vacation, several hundred Wisconsin high school students could answer ?opened the door to the University of Wisconsin- Madison.?  The summer between their junior and senior years is a capstone project for the long-term goal of preparing to attend the University of Wisconsin- Madison with the help of the PEOPLE program.

UW System rescinds contract with broadband provider

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AP

MADISON, Wisconsin ? The University of Wisconsin System has quietly withdrawn from a new contract with broadband provider WiscNet, raising questions about whether libraries and public schools that also rely on the provider might have to pay more for Internet access.

State schools chief Tony Evers blasts UW broadband move

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

State school officials are raising concerns about the University of Wisconsin System decision to withdraw a contract offer to an Internet provider for state campuses, public schools and libraries, saying the move could result in higher costs and less service for public institutions.

A culture of consent

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Nature

Editorial: The journal Nature opposes the bill ? to ban research with ?any material derived from any cell or tissue of an unborn child? ? introduced by André Jacque, a Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.

UW-Madison expands online programs for military, educators

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The Business Journal of Milwaukee

The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Department of Political Science is expanding a series of online courses geared toward military service members, educators and business leaders into a graduate capstone certificate program which will launch in 2014.

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Report: Community engagement key to development

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Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune

Vital Signs 2013, the third in a series of annual reports commissioned by Wisconsin Rapids-based Incourage Community Foundation that focuses on the vitality and economic health of the region, gives the community a basis for making informed decisions about how to change the economic climate for the better, said Laura Dresser, associate director of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Affirmative action may be a benefit

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Riverside, Calif. Press-Enterprise

A new study concludes that students who benefit from affirmative action programs do just as well as other students, at least at the University of California?s most competitive schools.

UW Considers Admission Policies In Light Of Supreme Court’s Race Ruling

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Wisconsin Public Radio News

  The U.S. Supreme Court?s ruling on Monday in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the case challenging the use of race as a factor in university admission policies, won?t have any direct affect on the University of Wisconsin. But UW officials say they will continue to evaluate how it uses race in admissions decisions to ensure a diverse student body.

Lacking Definitive Ruling on Affirmative Action, Both Sides Claim Victory

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New York Times

Noted: ?Prior to this particular ruling, every university in the country was already thinking about all of the alternatives, depending on the outcome of the case, and about how to prove whether a policy is working,? said Joanne E. Berg, vice provost for enrollment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?I don?t think that should change, and I don?t think it will.?

Lori DiPrete Brown: In Conversation With the Dalai Lama

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Huffington Post

On May 14th and 15th, the UW-Madison Global Health Institute and the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds engaged with the Dalai Lama and an interdisciplinary group of global thought leaders to explore the potential contributions of mindfulness meditation to sustainable global health.

Wis. at less risk of doc shortage than elsewhere

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AP

Noted: That?s why the state?s other medical school, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has two programs to specifically serve students interested in practicing rural medicine. The programs provide specialized training and hands-on experience in small communities.

Doug Moe: A mystery to her

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Madison.com

There was yellow police tape on Monroe Street last weekend, and nearby, on the sidewalk, a chalk outline of a body.

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Lax Education In Humanities, Social Sciences Spark Outcry

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NPR

A new report argues that humanities and social sciences are as essential to the country?s economic and civic future as science and technology. The study by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences was commissioned in 2010 by a bipartisan group of members of Congress. It comes at a time when the value of the liberal arts is being challenged by economic and political forces.ShareFacebookTwitterGoogle+Email1Comment