Category: Opinion

Educators, students, families, and communities are the ones with the most to lose, and they must determine how to develop our shared future after the pandemic. At the very least, they deserve to be at the table to choose who leads these efforts rather than hearing about it in a daily briefing after the deal has been closed.

Kathryn Moeller is an assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin and the author of “The Gender Effect: Capitalism, Feminism, and the Corporate Politics of Development.” Rebecca Tarlau is an assistant professor of education and labor and employment relations at the Pennsylvania State University and the author of “Occupying Schools, Occupying Land: How the Landless Workers Movement Transformed Brazilian Education.”

Students come to UW-Madison for the opposite of social distancing — they meet people from all over the country and the world. They socialize and study together. UW should consider greatly reducing tuition for all freshmen, cancelling the freshman class, or let college go back to being normal, hopefully with testing available.

Online instruction has left a large impact on UW financially, current UW budget will be insufficient if fall semester is fully digital.

Gartland is a graduate student in the La Follette School of Public Affairs.

Boaventura de Sousa Santos is Professor of Sociology at the School of Economics, University of Coimbra (Portugal), Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School and Global Legal Scholar at the University of Warwick.

As UW lauches its first fully online degree in personal finance, students unable to attend UW traditionally are able to succeed.

This is why I drafted an open letter to Rupert Murdoch and Lachlan Murdoch, the proprietors of the Fox Corporation, a letter that has been signed by over 190 professors of journalism, including the dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, the chair of broadcast journalism at the University of Maryland, the director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University, and professors at the Columbia Journalism School, the University of Maryland, the University of California at Berkeley, the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, the Annenberg Schools of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Southern California, the University of Iowa, the University of Wisconsin, Madison, New York University, the University of Texas, American University and elsewhere.

As UW attempts to adjust to new form of instruction, here are ways to make the most of the current predicament.

But surveillance architectures created in haste could prove difficult to dismantle with anything like the same speed. Pro-privacy groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation and STOP are already warning that the infrastructure of tools like facial recognition may not be dismantled. In all likelihood, the status quo has now changed forever — and the improvised solutions of today will inevitably shape the surveillance regimes of tomorrow.

Ben Power is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

With students, professors scrambling to adjust to new form of teaching, traditional standardized midterms must be changed to fit new situation.

Our risk is tied to our limited access to quality health care. We are less likely to receive a COVID-19 test even if we present with symptoms.

Not unprecented move, preceded by Harvard.

Non-minority students could do more next year when Black History Month comes around.

Ability to communicate effectively can be key to employment for many college graduates, yet isn’t taught properly at UW.

Letter to the editor: Instead of worrying about how to explain away words to children, we focus on educating them about why those words are vulgar and what makes them inappropriate in a particular setting. They’re going to hear those words at school, but at least they can learn about them from home first.

We look down onto the court and see the Ab Nichols floor, named after the 1950s two-time all-Big Ten Conference guard and program philanthropist. We look up and see Frank Kaminsky’s No. 44 jersey, where it hangs in honor next to Nichols’ No. 8. And that’s it. The only two players who’ve been given that honor in the 100-plus years of Badger Men’s Basketball are white.

We can live with post-truth. We can’t live with post-analysis, post-criticism, post-interpretation, post-humanities. That would be the real crisis.Sara Guyer is Kellett professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she directed the Center for the Humanities from 2008 to 2019. She is president of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes and will be speaking at Times Higher Education’s Mena Universities Summit in Abu Dhabi.

In response to the threat of Hmong deportations, the University of Wisconsin and UWPD have stated they don’t have any jurisdiction to get involved. As such, attempts to preserve the Hmong community in Wisconsin would have to be a state-wide effort at the very least.

At UW-Madison, one in 10 students reported there was at least one incident in which they were the target of hostile, harassing or intimidating behavior, according to a 2016 campus climate survey.

2015 Master Plan is good, 2025 Master Plan can be even better.

Questions about future of education arise following Trump administration’s proposed federal budget, students left in a precarious position

OtherWords columnist Jill Richardson is pursuing a Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

They are the overlooked heroes that society and the labs should be sending to a sanctuary whenever possible.

For example, a sociology professor mentioned to his students that some theories in higher education are “sacred cows” — a term frequently used to describe something that is taboo to challenge. A student who grew up in India then filed a complaint asserting that the professor’s use of the term was “condescending and racist.”

We pride ourselves on our “world class” university — but nothing is classy about the chant.

Yes, the repressive, politically correct, left wack-jobs are alive and well at UW. What’s next, book burning, hanging witches, Inquisition, etc.?

To the Editor: Re “Let the Lunch Lady Feed Your Kids” (Op-Ed, Feb. 12): Kudos to Jennifer Gaddis for her insightful Op-Ed about school meals. They have indeed improved, and in many places across the country, farm-to-school programs and innovative partnerships between schools and chefs have produced outstanding, appealing fresh food.

The Super Bowl fame that recently came to Scout, a golden retriever, and the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine had its roots in the state’s politics more than 40 years ago.

Letter to the editor: This chant should not be allowed in this family friendly setting. Building on the current “quid pro quo” (this for that) popularity, we could develop a strategy to eliminate this rude chant.