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Category: Campus life

Dan Egan’s ‘Death and Life of the Great Lakes’ keeps stimulating discussion

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Noted: The University of Wisconsin in Madison has selected Egan’s book as the Go Big Read selection for 2018-’19. Copies will be given to first-year students at the Chancellor’s Convocation for New Students, and the book will be incorporated into some classes. (Past Go Big Read selections include Matthew Desmond’s “Evicted.”)

Signature piece

Isthmus

Since January, Savannah Guthrie and her husband, Scott, have been eating dinner on the floor of their one-bedroom apartment on West Gilman Street.

UW Grapples With History of KKK on Campus

WORT 89.9 FM

A new report out from University of Wisconsin-Madison dives deep into the history of the Ku Klux Klan on campus. Until recently, the violently racist organization’s presence on campus wasn’t well known.

How Universities Are Dealing With Histories of Racism

Progressive.org

An important chapter of America’s reckoning with its racist history is playing out on college campuses. Whether it is pressure from student protests or findings by internal research committees, university officials are having to decide how to acknowledge or distance themselves from racist pasts.

At college decision time, conservatives face tough choices

Christian Science Monitor

Jake Lubenow, who heads up one of the largest College Republicans chapters in the country, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, says he regularly hears from prospective students and their parents who are worried about liberal indoctrination. He tells them that he and other Republicans on campus find  being immersed in a liberal environment has taught them to better articulate their views.

UW Madison Releases Report on Racist History

Inside Higher Education

A study group convened by the University of Wisconsin at Madison in the wake of the violence in Charlottesville, Va., last August released a report last week documenting the university’s history of racism and exclusion, including two student organizations in the early 20th century that were called Ku Klux Klan.