Category: Opinion

Letter to the editor: Given these challenges, it looks like it’s going to be pretty difficult to attract other qualified candidates to even consider applying for this opening, and I’m afraid we have no one to blame but ourselves.

The Editorial Board began this week by informing our audience that our lack of coverage at the outset of the protests was not because of apathy or indifference, but technological difficulties.

Chelsea Hylton is a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison double majoring in journalism and Spanish. She is an LA Posse scholar and very passionate about the power that journalism can have. This column was first published by The Black Voice, UW-Madison’s black student online publication, and edited by Nile Lansana.

It was 51 years ago when, as a member of the Wisconsin National Guard, my unit was activated to help keep the University of Wisconsin’s Madison campus open.

UW-Madison’s Odyssey Project works to expand educational access for students living in poverty and students incarcerated in our prison system, and the benefits are obvious.

Column by Hannah Sherfinski, a dual degree MD-MPH student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Burden is a professor of political science and director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Something remarkable happened in Ohio and Wisconsin this spring. While other states with presidential primaries scheduled for last month decided to postpone or modify them, the Buckeye State and Badger State held theirs.

Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, MPH, MSLIS, MD, FAAP, is an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and also holds master’s degrees in public health and children’s librarianship.

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.