As Regents, we have a strong responsibility to keep the University of Wisconsin System affordable and accessible for Wisconsin families. We feel just as strongly about protecting the quality and excellence for which the UW System is known the world over. The reasons for ensuring this are compelling.
Hot favorite Gwen Jorgensen produced the perfect race to win the Olympic women’s triathlon gold on Saturday, the American unusually staying with her rivals on the bike before surging clear of defending champion Nicola Spirig-Hug on the run.
On TV and online, sensational headlines grab our attention: “You’ll Be Shocked What Happened Next!” or “17 Secrets Cruise Ship Workers Don’t Want You to Know.” These clickbait headlines work because we want to satisfy our curiosity, so we watch, or click.
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (at right), a Wisconsin Republican in a tough re-election battle against Democrat Russ Feingold, used an appearance on Thursday to say the “higher education cartel” is raising prices and preventing reforms that would help college students learn at affordable prices.
Harvard has more millionaire alumni than any other university in the world, according to a new survey. UW is No. 20.
Quoted: “Most voters vote for the same party for president as they vote for Senate and Congress and other offices. I wouldn’t have expected there to be much daylight between the presidential ticket and what’s happening in Senate races,” said Barry Burden, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But it looks like at least some of these senators, Rubio in particular, have been able to differentiate themselves from Trump by some degree.”
Noted: “The grounds crew has taken steps to deal with the chlorosis,” says Michels. The Capitol Square trees have been receiving special treatment since last fall, after the state consulted R. Bruce Allison of the UW-Madison Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology.
Quoted: Cheryl Skjoloass is an agricultural safety and health specialist at UW-Madison and Extension. She said the gases that are released in that process of working with manure–methane, carbon dioxide, ammonia and hydrogen sulfide, can be deadly.
Gov. Scott Walker won’t say whether he plans to freeze tuition at state universities for one year or two in the next two-year state budget.
The University of Wisconsin system’s Board of Regents has approved a budget request for $42.5 million in new funding. Regent Tony Evers voted no. “This budget in my estimation falls short of what the university system needs,” Evers said. “I understand the politics of asking for money.”
Governor Scott Walker says no decision has been made yet on how his budget will address the future of a University of Wisconsin tuition freeze.
The University of Wisconsin System’s Board of Regents approved a request for $42.5 million in new state spending on Thursday.
The six-volume Dictionary of American Regional English, completed in print in 2012, continues to augment its coverage with quarterly updates by the chief editor, George Goebel, at the University of Wisconsin. The fifth update, for summer 2016, has just been published, with a dozen new entries and 40 revised ones. Most of the entries update or enrich the letter B, originally published in Volume I more than 30 years ago.
Landing your dream job is a daunting prospect for anyone. So you might be forgiven for thinking that the smartest thing to do when pursuing an ambitious career is also thinking up a Plan B, in case your Plan A goes wrong. Right?
Come Sept. 5, a billboard featuring attorney John Hawley will be erected on 14th Street and Niagara Avenue in Sheboygan.
Charles Sykes riled many in higher education with his 1988 book, Profscam: Professors and the Demise of Higher Education. Now the senior fellow at the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute and Wisconsin-based conservative talk radio host is back with a new book, Fail U: The False Promise of Higher Education (St. Martin’s Press), which hit the shelves earlier this month.
The state Legislature’s nonpartisan budget office says the state could have to spend roughly $30 million more on several University of Wisconsin System building projects that were delayed in the last budget.
On July 18, Guatemala’s most infamous — and powerful — prisoner, Byron Lima Oliva, was shot to death in the Pavón prison outside Guatemala City. While it was a fellow prisoner who, the authorities said, put two bullets in Mr. Lima’s head, in all likelihood the intellectual authors of the killing hail from the highest echelons of the state and the moneyed elite. In Guatemala, it is often impossible to tell where the state ends and the underworld begins.
Noted: Fascinating research by psychologist Patricia Devine from the University of Wisconsin deals with breaking the prejudice habit. She explains how even people who hold beliefs and attitudes that are opposed to prejudice can act in discriminatory ways. This essentially happens because of implicit biases, automatic processes we all hold.
Noted: Mike Wagner, professor of political science at University of Wisconsin-Madison, said most campaigns would likely denounce such remarks, but Trump’s might not. “Donald Trump himself has already said, if I don’t win, it may be that this election was rigged,” Wagner said. “And so the column from Roger Stone, a former Trump associate, sure makes it sound like this is at least consistent with the Trump message, if not coordinated with the Trump message.”
In recent years, communities, schools and families have sought to help people be better able to avoid money troubles by promoting financial literacy and, in turn, financial capability. A new national study shows these efforts are finding success in Wisconsin.
Sonia Sotomayor grew up in a housing project in New York City. The daughter of native Puerto Ricans, her father died when she was just 9 years old. He never learned English. Her mother, an orphan, raised Sotomayor and her brother in the Bronx, in a neighborhood plagued by poverty and violence. Nevertheless, Sotomayor was always at the top of her class. In 2009, she became the first Latina and the third woman to be confirmed as an associate justice to the U.S. Supreme Court.
UW-River Falls was one of the 26 Wisconsin college campuses affected by statewide budget cuts to higher education made two years ago. This month the budget for 2017-19, that will hopefully repair some of that damage, will be reviewed by the Board of Regents.
UW System President Ray Cross is getting ready to present the UW System 2017-19 budget request to the Board of Regents and Governor Walker. In total, Cross said the UW System will ask for $42.5 million in new state GPR. In June, the UW System and the Board of Regents approved asking for $19.2 million in funding for the Wisconsin Grant administered by the Higher Educations Aids Board (HEAB).
When it opened on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in 1851, North Hall contained classrooms, offices, and housing; for four years, it was the entire university in a single building. About 30 students lived there with three faculty members and a janitor.
Quoted: “It’s a knee-jerk reaction to say that someone who’s getting a couple hundred bucks a month is lazy, so let’s throw them off,” said Tim Smeeding, a professor at the University of Wisconsin who studies poverty.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students began moving in and out of off-campus housing over the weekend, meaning there is plenty of curbside trash, or for some — treasure.
Fermentation — the process by which microorganisms metabolize sugar into alcohol and other byproducts — has been an important part of the human diet for thousands of years. But the art and science of this practice is undergoing a bit of a renaissance, as craft brewing explodes, and as professional and home cooks rediscover its important role in the preparation of many foods.
RIO DE JANEIRO — Carlinville High School and University of Wisconsin graduate Kelsey Card fell short of advancing to the finals during women’s discus qualifying at the Rio Olympics on Monday night.
Years of budget cuts under both Republican Gov. Scott Walker and his predecessor, Democrat Jim Doyle, have made for a lean UW System.
Noted: “It’s a little bit of every person for themselves,” University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden told me during the Republican convention. “A lot of people are there to think about their future in the party. Skipping [the convention was] not a viable option, but they don’t want to be attached to a sinking ship.”
It’s good to have backup plans in case your goals don’t work out in your career or life. However, if you spend too much effort on figuring out the details of your backup plans, it can make you less likely to really pursue your first plan.
Noted: At least one state, Wisconsin, has begun an initiative to address the shortage. Starting next year, the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine will designate one resident in obstetrics and gynecology who will do at least a quarter of his or her training in rural areas with too few maternal health providers.
Carlinville High School and University of Wisconsin graduate Kelsey Card will compete in Group B of the women’s discus preliminaries at 7:50 p.m. Springfield time Monday at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
In March 2014, Sri Lankan customs officials got a tip that valuable contraband was moving through the country’s port city of Colombo.
There’s a new exhibit in the display cases at the south end of the Mechanical Engineering Building on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus.
As June turned into July in Madison, the University of Wisconsin threw a big, late-night party at Camp Randall Stadium, complete with giveaways, exclusive access to high-profile coaches and a selfie station.
Noted: Davies believes a professional organization provides a natural fit for a preprint server. Although ACS has not formally polled its membership, he adds, most of its advisers and journal editors support ChemRxiv. (Science and Nature, among many others, now publish papers that first appeared as preprints.) The initiative was first proposed by Laura Kiessling, a chemistry professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and editor-in-chief of ACS Chemical Biology, during a society retreat in January.
Noted: Looking back on our work history makes people nostalgic, said Patricia Mullins, a professor emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Wisconsin School of Business.
Quoted: Robert Drechsel, who retired last week as the James E. Burgess Chair in Journalism Ethics and director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, described the article as “thoughtless, insensitive and unethical.”
Quoted: A serious hurdle for Libertarians and other minor parties is a patchwork of rules and laws nationwide governing access to ballots. “It’s the number one problem that third party candidates face,” said Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and director of the Elections Research Center.
Should American hunters register their firearms? Would it help improve their image among the general public? Could it help reduce U.S. gun deaths?
Smokers may worry that trying to quit will alienate them from other smokers, said coauthor Megan E. Piper of the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But in practice, people who quit actually gain nonsmoking friends, she told Reuters Health by phone.
A Q&A with Kathy Knox, the League’s Board Interest Groups’ Chair
GREEN BAY – University of Wisconsin-Green Bay’s top leader hopes the community will support increased funding for state campuses as Wisconsin lawmakers begin to piece together a 2017-19 budget.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker says he wants to extend the tuition freeze for state universities, but UW System leaders are asking him to reconsider.
The vice-chairman of the state Senate Universities and Technical Colleges Committee says continuing a tuition freeze for University of Wisconsin campuses for another two years is a “clear choice” for state lawmakers to make.
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Chancellor Jim Schmidt’s message is simple, “More state investment is needed to maintain the quality of the student experience.”
Quoted: The idea of community literacy has been around for decades, says panelist Noah Feinstein, a sociologist and science educator at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, citing the role of HIV activists in the 1980s and 1990s in transforming clinical trials to combat AIDS. But literacy researchers have only recently begun to focus on the power of that collective action, he notes.
Scientists at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica who have been searching for mysterious particles known as sterile neutrinos have come up empty.
The University of Wisconsin System is poised to ask lawmakers to lift the cap on in-state tuition and reverse years of declining support for higher education with a funding increase of $42.5 million in the next state budget.
Quoted: “If you are looking for your next big win, going after Paul Ryan is probably not a wise strategy,” said David Canon, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin. “Paul Ryan is someone who has a strong reservoir of support, so it is going to take more than Ann Coulter to turn his constituents against him.”
Quoted: Barry Burden, political science professor at the University of Wisconsin, said Nehlen has “made a lot of noise.”
An observatory buried deep in Antarctic ice has reported the results of its search for an hypothesized particle called the ‘sterile neutrino’: a total blank.
A finding of nothing doesn’t often get a run in research reporting, but an almost-certain conclusion that the hypothesised “sterile neutrino” doesn’t exist is an important one in the world of particle physics.
After conducting a diligent search for a hypothetical subatomic particle — the “sterile neutrino” — that would have filled in another blank of the Standard Model of particle physics, scientists at a particle detector in the South Pole are now almost certain that such a particle does not exist.
A former lieutenant governor of Wisconsin and a member of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents is calling on the state to take a no-nonsense approach to funding the UW System.
Scientists say they’ve discovered a new virus during an investigation into a largemouth bass die-off in Forest County’s Pine Lake.
Twenty years ago, I headed to Sweden for a sabbatical year to study the country’s attitudes toward hunting. As a responsible hunter, I brought my own guns — an old 12-gauge shotgun and a Remington .30-06 — because I didn’t want to miss a shot or wound an animal using unfamiliar, borrowed firearms.
Quoted: “We don’t know what the claims that things will be fine are based upon. This is unacceptable considering the high stakes,” said Ian Baird, a geography professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies Mekong fisheries. “If the measures don’t work well, it will be too late to undo the damage and there will be regional implications for food security and biodiversity.”
