Category: Opinion

We must shift our social expectations and spaces to be more conducive to a substance-free lifestyle, which will be far more accommodating and comfortable for both students in recovery, and those who simply choose not to drink, alike.

Through what has been named The Isthmus Project, Mackie and others connected to UW Health will offer a set of coordinated services to innovators in the health-care space.

Other countries have demonstrated that where there is a will, there is a way to accomplish this goal. Without strong action by policymakers, poverty and its inevitable consequences will continue to impose great costs on children, families, and the nation.

–Ron Haskins is the Cabot Family chair and a senior fellow in economics at the Brookings Institution. Timothy Smeeding is the Lee Rainwater professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Rejection of Callisto software on basis of imperfection jeopardizes students, ignores the software’s many benefits.

President Donald Trump’s recent executive order prompts discussion on free expression vs. diversity on campus.

Assuming that China and the US will have GDP growth rates of 6.3 per cent and 3 per cent in 2019, and then fall to 2.2 per cent in 2033, the size of China’s GDP, which was 66 per cent of the US GDP in 2018, will peak at 84 per cent in 2033.

Accessibility to mental health resources is important for everyone, but students of color lack accessibility more than their white counterparts.

We’re a little late with this, but we want to celebrate the UW Women’s Hockey team winning the national championship, because we’re not sure it’s gotten enough attention.

The fact is that you can get an excellent education at hundreds of American colleges, many of which have fine reputations and are easier to get into. Take Bard, for instance, which accepts 49 percent of its applicants; Sarah Lawrence, whose acceptance rate is 43 percent; or the University of Wisconsin–Madison, which admits more than half of all students who apply.

The reality is that “cheating the system” of college admissions happens all the time, and since it occurs within the law, we don’t hear about it.

If you attend any major on-campus event, you have likely seen a member of the university communications team taking photographs. What you may not have noticed was their center of focus was probably on the students of color attending the event.

Don’t let scandal surrounding college admissions distract from financial privilege inherent in college admissions process.

In an increasingly polarized political and social environment, courses on race and ethnicity in the United States are crucial to educating young people on the roots of these issues. Ideally, this intersectional education will help address the lasting notions of racism and develop cultural sensitivity.

ASM must focus on the cause of sexual assault, rather than focus solely on mitigation efforts.

UW’s Center for Religion and Global Citizenry leads the conversation about religious pluralism in our community.

In light of confusion surrounding accessibility, eligibility of food insecurity relief programs, Second Harvest Foodbank provides clarity.

The predecessors for today’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the UW-Madison were already on the scene, helping farmers transition. It happened again in the 1890s when Professor Stephen Babcock developed the first simple and practical test for measuring the butterfat content for milk and cream, which propelled the dairy industry. The state’s cranberry industry took off at the turn of the 20th century, again with the help of decades of UW research.

Letter to the editor: Shall the entrenched self-interests of humanities faculty win out, or will those championing greater cost-effectiveness and graduate job-placement success prove victorious?

Free speech in the public schools might just be the only area where First Amendment safeguards have narrowed, rather than expanded, in the past half century. It seems the court has hung Tinker out to dry.

Letter to the editor: I support Gov. Tony Evers’ proposal to continue the in-state tuition freeze for UW students. Being a resident of Wisconsin attending UW, I am grateful that I can afford my tuition without going into debt. But nonresident students don’t have it as nice as I do. Most of my friends live out of state and are struggling with the amount of loans needed to achieve a degree.

Health care should be affordable for all. Education shouldn’t be followed by a debt hangover, decadeslong. The disenfranchised need to have the opportunity to succeed.That’s what young people mean by socialism.—Matthew Ingebritson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, finance, investment and banking

After catastrophic flooding around campus, it is clear that UW must allocate more money to stronger infrastructure.

In response to research about lack of inclusivity Hmong students feel on campus, HASA offers thoughts about next steps.

The chancellor at the University of Wisconsin, Rebecca Blank, has also said that her school would consider cutting sports programs altogether.

We all slip on the ice once in a while, but I have never seen as many spills as I have this winter in Madison.

The mixed signals were embarrassing. UW-Madison is a public institution. The message from UW officials and student groups to presidential prospects and prominent figures who choose to appear on the campus should be that they are expected to be open, transparent and accessible.

If you want to continue to be blind to the explicit acts of hate, discrimination and prejudice that happens on a daily basis at our school, that’s your own problem. I don’t owe anyone anything.

Students already know that mental health services at UHS are inadequate. In 2018, wait times for counseling sessions were as long as 36 days.

The SuccessWorks program located above the University Bookstore started by Dean Karl Scholz is offering a range of services to undergraduates including internships, career counseling, job interviews and even a closet of appropriate clothing for those interviews. What a terrific idea.

After recent violent acts on campus, students, families deserve more comprehensive solutions.

UW administration seeks to address sexual violence on campus through Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct Climate Survey.

Yes, the Canada Goose jacket seems to be a heated point of conversation when it comes to undergraduates seeking to critique class in the university.

The situation in Venezuela is, undoubtedly, difficult. But when it comes to Latin America, Washington has a long history of making difficult situations worse. It is precisely because Venezuela deserves a better government than it currently has that the United States should not play a role in choosing it.Patrick Iber is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of “Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America.”

When a student takes notes on a laptop in a class that doesn’t allow them, they immediately stick out like a sore thumb. To their peers, not only does this immediately identify them as someone who receives McBurney services, it also makes them seem like someone who directly refutes the researched claims the professor has given for their technology policy.

Column by Sue Robinson, journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

UW Stevens Point aims to cut majors with low enrollment, but still integrate liberal arts in meaningful way.

Lack of transparency about SNAP benefits leaves students confused, unable to take advantage of resources.

Teaching is a noble profession and special calling that should be honored and well-paid. So we applaud the UW System for creating a task force to help identify how UW System institutions can better meet Wisconsin’s needs for more teachers and school leaders.

UW’s failure to cancel class, despite knowledge of the weather’s danger, displays disregard for students’ safety.

Location also matters when it comes to Evers’ view of family-supporting jobs and people in poverty. A report in June 2018 by the UW-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty showed the overall state poverty rate climbed to 10.8 percent in 2016, with some wide geographic fluctuations.