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.
Noted: David Schwartz is a professor of law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and author of a forthcoming book about the history of McCulloch v. Maryland.
There have been a number of questionable decisions coming out of the University of Wisconsin System in recent weeks.
Column by Neil Kraus, professor and chair of the University of Wisconsin-River Falls political science department
In July 1958, an astronomer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison named Arthur “Art” Code received a telegram from the fledgling Space Science Board of the National Academy of Sciences. The agency wanted to know what he and his colleagues would do if given the opportunity to launch into Earth’s orbit an instrument weighing up to 100 pounds. Code, newly-minted director of the University’s Washburn Observatory, had something in mind. Fifty years ago, on December 7, 1968, that idea culminated in NASA’s launch of the first successful space-based observatory: the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory, or OAO-2.
Noted: Article co-written by Anita Mukherjee of the Wisconsin School of Business.
One hundred and fifteen people die each day due to an opioid overdose in the United States. Policymakers have tried many approaches to reduce this mortality rate, and researchers have been studying their effects. This post summarizes recent research on how to reduce opioid abuse and opioid-related mortality. What have we learned so far?
The Evers standard was particularly notable last Thursday, when the state superintendent of public instruction attended his last meeting as a member of the UW Board of Regents. Gracious and good-humored, Evers acknowledged that he had often disagreed with outgoing Gov. Scott Walker’s appointees to the board and added “there’s nothing wrong with that in a democracy.”
Though anti-Semitism among students manifests itself in graffiti or harassment, it finds a stable home online.
The University of Wisconsin’s new policy protecting free speech is about to be put to a test thanks to a brouhaha over a campus speaker. But it isn’t students who feel triggered and are raising a stink—it’s the university system president, Ray Cross, who claims to be a protector of free speech.
Column by Wagner, associate professor and Louis A. Maier Faculty Development Fellow in the University of Wisconsin Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Wisconsin Republicans endured a tough election last month, losing all major statewide offices. In response, the lame-duck legislators are calling a so-called extraordinary session. Their agenda? To make it harder for citizens to vote and to strip away powers from newly elected Democratic officials.
–Donald P. Moynihan is the McCourt chair at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. He served as a professor of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin at Madison from 2005 to 2018.
Tommy Thompson used to say: “Good policy makes for good politics.” How right he was. He worked to generate common sense reforms, and he produced results for Wisconsin.
Column by Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Column by Stephen M Gavazzi of Ohio State University.
Letter to the editor: The State Journal recently published several articles and an editorial asserting that UW-Madison is the epicenter of the discovery of stem cells and their utility in medicine. This representation is far from the truth, and several laboratories worldwide have been active in stem-cell research for many years prior to UW-Madison’s culture of embryonic stem cells in 1998.
Letter to the editor: University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross is reprimanding UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow for retaining an adult film actress as a campus speaker. President Cross may feel like he has punched his politically correct dance card, but reality speaks otherwise.
Noted: Owens is a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is the director of the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Limiting Thanksgiving break inconveniences staff, students, while adding little of value.
Though free expression argument is superficially compelling, context must be taken into account.
Another priority of Gov.-elect Tony Evers should be to restore funding for UW Extension, which was cut by Gov. Scott Walker. The UW Extension is the most visible means of the Wisconsin Idea being put to work.
The elimination of majors in Spanish, Chinese, Arabic and Japanese at some University of Wisconsin System campuses, a step not hard to imagine given recent announcements from UW Stevens Point, would deprive Wisconsin businesses of a supply of intercultural experts to help inform the shaping of trade relations.
The annual report by the National Science Foundation on research and development spending by U.S. colleges and universities confirmed what many people already know: The UW-Madison is a powerhouse when it comes to attracting R&D dollars.
Leckrone has changed the lives of students in his band, delighted millions of fans and entertained anyone within earshot for a half a century. And he’s done it with passion and style and class.
Leckrone has changed the lives of students in his band, delighted millions of fans and entertained anyone within earshot for a half a century. And he’s done it with passion and style and class. We want to thank him and wish him as much joy in retirement as he brought to us all these years.
Here’s a simple idea I bet most Americans agree with: No qualified high school student should ever be barred entrance to a college based on his or her family’s bank account. Yet it happens all the time.
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow recently apologized for his naivety about the media coverage of his decision to pay $5,000 of public money to porn star Nina Hartley to give a talk on campus.
I appreciated the State Journal’s thoughtful article, “Colleges marketing to fewer state graduates,” about the challenges of the demographic downturn facing Wisconsin. But I think the Nov. 2 front-page piece missed several important points.
My experience as a first-time polling volunteer confirmed my belief that the system by which the state of Wisconsin and many other states goes by is burdensome. It demonstrated to me that voter suppression efforts continue to exist and remain hugely problematic.
Going to Badgers football games over many years, it has been disturbing and embarrassing to have to listen to the UW-Madison student section doing their very improper profane chant back and forth between their sections numerous times during the game.
Though Trump wants to invalidate transgender and non-binary people, we must make campus welcoming to all.
A few years ago, University of Wisconsin System schools were being “poached” by other universities that tried to take advantage of budget cuts and the perception that UW tenure had been eroded. As UW-Madison Engineering Dean Ian Robertson told members of his advisory boards Oct. 19, the tide has turned. More young professors and researchers are being recruited at his college.
Madison has been a leader in early voting efforts, with 14 places where early voting can be done, including all nine of Madison’s public libraries, and at Edgewood College and UW-Madison Union South.
Like its seasonal counterpart Freakfest, VoteFest is another method of control on public activity.
In a recent Badger Herald opinion piece, a UW student criticized The Associated Students of Madison’s advisory role in the University, arguing that it does not have legitimate power because of a lack of direct enforcement capabilities. This argument promotes a fundamental misunderstanding of both the purpose and the structure of ASM.
Despite negative stressors exams tend to bring, valuable resilience can be gained from traditional forms of testing.
We know some people are questioning the value of a higher education. But the data is indisputable: an investment in the University of Wisconsin System is an investment in Wisconsin.
Equating Student Council to ASM is an uninformed interpretation of UW’s official student government.
Over the past decade, state government funding of higher education in the U.S. has fallen by $7 billion after inflation. The implications include increased tuition, which has received much public attention, but also a reduction in the relative quality of public higher education, which has gone largely unnoticed.
Battle over jurisdictions doesn’t change importance of student safety.
Though lack of affordable student parking is inconvenient for all, it further harms already struggling students.
By ignoring foundational problems of ASM, we limit opportunities for effective shared governance on campus.
One thing we know for certain about the sexual assault crisis in our culture is that the only acceptable response is to do something about it.
Gloria Ladson-Billings, the Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin, weighs in on Kanye West.
Cephus is suing Board of Regents, UW administrators on violation of fifth amendment rights.
The story of NeuWave Medical, a medical therapy company that grew out of UW-Madison research before it was acquired a global health-care firm, shows how venture and angel capital often flows to suppliers and other businesses throughout the economy.
The protesters were mostly high school and university students. They carried black balloons, dozens of them – one for each teenaged orphaned girl who died while in police custody in a March 2017 schoolroom fire.
*Fr Gregory Jensen is the pastor of Sts. Cyril & Methodius Ukrainian Orthodox Mission and the Eastern Orthodox chaplain at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Nobody does science like the Wisconsin Science Festival.
A new study from NorthStar Analytics found that each year the UW System has a $24 billion impact on the Wisconsin economy, almost 8 percent of the total economy of the state. Moreover, the study found that 167,000 jobs are generated or supported by the UW System each year.
UW’s Christian-centered calendar forces students of other faiths to choose between academics, religious observance.
UW Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank made a statement last week that is either incredibly naïve or designed to deceive.
A perception exists that major academic institutions, the University of Wisconsin-Madison included, don’t do enough to attract and keep minority students and faculty on their campuses.
With all of her necessary documentation, University of Wisconsin-Madison student Brooke Evans arrived at her polling place on Nov. 8, 2016, for the presidential election. For her, voting that day meant not only casting a ballot for the first female presidential candidate with a real shot of winning but having a voice in a society in which homeless people such as herself were marginalized.
But, even with those dramatic increases in Wisconsin, the state still lags the nation, said UW-Madison Political Science Professor Barry Burden, who has studied changes in voting patterns.
The UW will be the first to admit that more needs to be done to create a diverse educational community, including changing the attitudes of some students and faculty who make campus life uncomfortable for those who don’t look like them. But it isn’t as if many at the school aren’t trying. While the UW’s leadership is working to solve the perennial diversity problem with ambitious and expensive recruitment programs, there are many smaller efforts that go unnoticed, but might just turn out to be as effective in the long run.
There’s nothing surprising about the fact that UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone and Marquette University President Mike Lovell might work together. They’re friends, past academic colleagues and passionate about Milwaukee’s future as a technology hub.
The Waisman Center at the UW Madison is such a special place doing such extraordinary research into human development and developmental disabilities that one could view its work as out of the reach of average citizens.
We are very fortunate to have the UW-Madison Arboretum right here in Madison.
Though banning laptops seems juvenile, taking notes by hand eliminates distractions, making lectures more conducive for learning.
President Trump provoked outrage on Twitter and in the media in mid-September with his tweets that denied the death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria in 2017 and blamed Democrats for artificially elevating it.
So when I saw the story the other day that the Athletic Department is contemplating another multimillion-dollar renovation of Camp Randall, I wondered if there were a few bucks in the package to install railings on the aisles. Most every other stadium has them.
