Dear Editor: UW-Madison is enduring a devastating financial crisis. Recent articles have focused on the exodus of many top faculty, but another aspect is equally important: Our ability to fund graduate education is collapsing. UW-Madison has some of the world’s premier graduate programs, and to continue to excel at teaching, research and service to the state of Wisconsin, we must continue to attract and keep top graduate students.
Monica Macaulay, UW linguistics professor
Joseph Salmons, director, UW Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures