Letter to the editor: This past weekend would have been an opportunity to expand the fan base for Badgers volleyball and basketball if fans could watch games via their standard cable TV package.
Column by Nick Buttrick, assistant professor of psychology at UW-Madison.
Column by Jessica Maki, a mass communications Ph.D. student at UW-Madison who earned her master’s at Louisiana State University, and Michael W. Wagner, the William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin Idea, director of the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal and professor of journalism and mass communication at UW-Madison.
Authored by Bryna Godar, a staff attorney at the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
If all goes well, the new engineering building will help the future of the engineering program and will boost Wisconsin’s economy as a whole. Conversely, the cost of this future improvement is leaving programs underfunded, tuition raised and immediate needs unmet.
Written by Menzie Chinn, a professor of public affairs and economics in UW-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs and Department of Economics, and Mark Copelovitch, a professor in UW-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs and Department of Political Science.
Cardinal View: UW-Madison expression policies shape debate on only their terms. This restricts student dialogue.
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, UW-Madison was an international leader in the first renewable energy to produce electricity for the public — hydropower. During some of those years, the Wisconsin River was known as the hardest working river in the world because it produced so much electricity.
Today’s UW-Madison protests have passion but do not wield the same political influence that once shook campus and sparked national dialogue. Students must harness the generational protest tactics of the past.
While the world looks on with trepidation at regional wars in Israel and Ukraine, a far more dangerous global crisis is quietly building at the other end of Eurasia, along an island chain that has served as the front line for America’s national defense for endless decades. (Author: Alfre C. McCoy)
Hamas attacks and the Israeli response. Colleges and universities around the country are reconsidering their neutrality policies in the wake of such positions adopted by the University of Virginia, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Southern California, Harvard, Stanford, and many others. Schools are balancing, on the one hand, whether they put student rights or voices at risk when they take sides on controversial issues or whether they have a moral obligation to address societal wrongs.
As more students choose MATC for affordability, UW should streamline transfer processes and expand financial aid.
Written by Denia Garcia, an assistant professor with the La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW-Madison. Garcia’s work examines the role of space and organizations in shaping how inequalities are experienced and reproduced.
A modern, thriving Wisconsin requires universities rated in the top tier of research institutions, ones that produce productivity enhancing innovations making modern life possible, while also imparting knowledge enabling citizens to create and think. Thus armed with these capacities, graduates of these Research One, or R1, universities find success in the arts, professions, sciences and as entrepreneurs.
UW is facing a decline in the number of Black students in its freshman class, pointing to deeper issues in diversity, equity in higher education.
Co-authored by PhD candidates in sociology, and William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin Idea & Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Wealthy donors have turned us into a DIY Society, where people are supposed to take care of themselves rather than be helped by government.
GOP attempts to protect conservative voices with End Woke Higher Education Act, putting campuses at risk for hate speech.
Written by Alvin Thomas, an Associate Professor of Human Development & Family Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a consulting editor at the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.
Staff Attorney, State Democracy Research Initiative, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Digital learning management system softwares changed higher education forever, but that has come at a price.
Dear Editor: In this new academic year, UW-Madison administration is beginning to enforce a crackdown on its own students and faculty who participated in the anti-war and anti-genocide protests at downtown Library Mall last spring, organized by Students for Justice in Palestine.
Recent appearances from Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles and Charlie Kirk have sparked campus controversy, offering lessons in free speech.
For the benefit of students and faculty, the university should start classes a week earlier.
When looking at sexual violence on campus, the need for this space becomes particularly clear.
University must continue investing in study abroad programs to improve cultural consciousness in student body.
Yet, under a new UW policy announced by system administrators last week, top UW officials will be barred from making public statements about what might broadly be imagined as controversial. The policy lists those officials as “the UW System president and vice presidents, the university chancellors, provosts, vice chancellors, deans, directors, department chairs and others who, when communicating in their official capacity, are likely to be perceived as speaking in the name of and on behalf of the institution or one of its units.”
Letter to the editor: As is common, the wealthy donors will have an important new building on campus named after a family member. There are winners in all this. But I urge families with significant resources to consider a different giving opportunity: affordable housing developments.
Letter to the editor: Now I see they are doing away with the Hall of Fame walk. These bricks are very special to the people who purchased them. Some of these bricks were very old, and some were memorials to loved ones. It was all done very underhandedly. Brick purchasers received little or no notification.
In the same breath, colleges claim that they remain committed to academic freedom, the right to protest and freedom of expression. In another extreme example, University of Wisconsin at Madison updated its expressive activity policy in a manner seemingly straight out of 1984, banning any speech activity short of “individuals speaking directly to one another” within 25 feet of a building, a policy UWM constitutional law professor Howard Schweber called “clearly unconstitutional” because it covers “an enormous and almost incalculable amount of First Amendment–protected expression in ways that have nothing to do with ensuring access to university buildings.”
Lawmakers must move to support increased state funding for UW system schools, steady tuition, enable scholarships.
Expanded league will lead to new rivalries, stronger recruiting, higher revenues.
After a lack of communication from UW System officials, many communities and students face uncertainty and isolation with higher education after a myriad of branch campuses closed.
A scientific survey of nearly 4,000 Wisconsin residents by the UW Survey Center helped identify the top issues heading into the fall election. Throughout the year, we’ve been publishing opinion pieces from faculty at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW-Madison, our partner in the Main Street Agenda, exploring the public policy behind those issues.
Column by Barry Burden, a political science professor and director of the Elections Research Center at UW-Madison.
Letter to the editor: Roughly 20 years ago I was very active in a Universities of Wisconsin System committee that advocated for liberal education at all System campuses. The initiative was wildly successful, but its success was short-lived.
Column by John Gross, a clinical associate professor of law at the UW-Madison Law School and director of the Public Defender Project.
The Universities of Wisconsin last week listed the demolition and replacement of the Humanities Building as one of its top priorities for the next state budget. The UW Board of Regents approved the request. Now Gov. Tony Evers should include it in his budget request to the Legislature next year.
If we run public higher education even more like a business that prioritizes efficiency over all other values, the outcome will be a disaster for a significant majority of students and the state.
Letter to the editor: As the retired, long-time campus executive of the Fox Cities (Menasha) campus, the Cap Times editorial on branch campus closings (“Stop closing Universities of Wisconsin campuses,” Aug. 14) could not be more timely. I and another campus retirees are organizing our community to deal with our campus’ impending closure.
We must not only hold landlords accountable but also examine the choices we are making. As students, we have the power to advocate for more sustainable, affordable living situations that meet our needs without sacrificing our financial stability.
Written by Jay Hill, vice president of Advanced Technologies at GE HealthCare, and Anjon Audhya, senior associate dean for basic research, biotechnology and graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Letter to the editor: While all Americans can be proud of the Team USA athletes in a variety of sports, I felt the results for women’s rugby bronze medalist Alev Kelter (who played women’s soccer and hockey at UW-Madison), women’s volleyball silver medalists Dana Rettke and Lauren Carlini (both standouts for UW volleyball) and especially women’s soccer gold medalist Rose Lavelle (perhaps the greatest UW women’s soccer player of all time) were particularly notable.
Letter to the editor: Why on Earth would this not be supported? It benefits the schools and students. My siblings and my son went through this system. The difference between them was my siblings graduated without debt, while my son has debt. I’m especially disturbed reading that over 30 tenured faculty are slated to be laid off. Majors have been cut.
The Republican-led effort is primed to double down on the austerity logic behind the UW’s problems.
Just look at all the big bucks being showered on Badgers coaches and administrators. It’s time to share more of the university’s haul from highly lucrative TV contracts with the players who make it possible.
Written by Christine Durrance ,a professor in the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studies health economics and policy, with particular interests in risky behavior, including substance use and the opioid crisis; maternal, infant, and reproductive health; child maltreatment and domestic violence; and competition in health care markets.
–Dessie Clark is the director of curriculum development and implementation for the University of Wisconsin at Madison Inclusion in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute. (Co-author)
The Shell, formerly the Camp Randall Memorial Sports Center, has been a part of my life since my freshman year at the UW in 1958. The building was only 2 years old when every Friday we ROTC cadets went through our “drill and ceremonies,” learning how to march in formation, do about-faces, stand at ease and all the other basics of a well-tuned Army platoon, while getting prepared to become second lieutenants four years later.
Madison serves as the innovator — home to UW-Madison, where research is king. The school ranks eighth in the nation for research expenditures among public and private universities. According to the National Science Foundation, UW invests more than $1.5 billion annually. UW also ranks high in patents granted – 12th in the nation in 2023. Additionally, the city’s startup scene is consistently ranked among the top 150 globally.
The undersigned members of the Board of Visitors of the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies are writing concerning a Letter to the Editor of The Daily Cardinal from Jewish UW Faculty and Students published by the Cardinal on May 2, 2024 (“May 2nd Letter”).
Letter to the editor: The authors equated political contributions to ideology. They used a lot of modifiers, such as “stunningly,” “remarkable” and “breathtaking” for their findings — in the absence of basic information to justify them.
Faculty members seem to have an aversion to absolutes. In case conservatives have forgotten, that is precisely the purpose of an education. Open and vigorous debate, not affirmation of old ideas, is the point of a college education.
As a former campus tour guide, I was often asked what made the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus so special. My answer? For a long time, I would tell incoming students a variety of answers: Lake Mendota, gameday culture or lakeshore in the fall.
But after living on Stanford University’s campus for the last month, that’s changed: what makes UW-Madison’s campus so special is our ability to leave it.
Co-authored by Morgan Edwards, an assistant professor with the La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW-Madison. She also leads the Climate Action Lab and holds an affiliation with the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. Zachary Thomas is a graduate student in UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and member of the Climate Action Lab.
“May their memory be a blessing.”
This traditional Jewish saying is usually heard in the context of hearing of someone’s passing. I found myself writing these words earlier today when I learned of the death of Dr. Murray Katcher, a fellow pediatrician and consummate child health advocate. I could call him a personal hero and role model, but the reality is that he went well beyond: a hero to children everywhere, and a role model to anyone who wishes to know how to live a purpose-driven life.
Richland Center has a big problem. The local Universities of Wisconsin branch closed one year ago, due to declining enrollment and UW’s system-wide budget shortfalls that are also forcing other branch closings.
Column by Castronovo, the Tom Paine professor of English and director of the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison.
Column by Owens, the George C. and Carmella P. Edwards professor of American politics at UW–Madison, and Tahk, associate professor of political science and the director of the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership at UW–Madison.
Letter to the editor: Looking back, this decision could have used more thought. The citizens of Richland County and the surrounding area deserve accountability that goes beneath the surface. So far, no one has borne responsibility for the demise of UW-Richland.
