When Christine Blasey Ford came forward to report that President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, sexually assaulted her in 1982, you could cue the response: Why didn’t she speak out then? Why didn’t she go to the police?
-OtherWords columnist Jill Richardson is pursuing a PhD in sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She lives in San Diego.
In short, the university is trying to make sure no one’s right to expression is infringed upon. But in doing so, does that not infringe upon the free speech of others?
Fufilling faculty diversification initiative brings first hand experience without pressuring marginalized student populations.
It isn’t a secret that Democrats underperformed in 2016. Since then, however, progressives have been making a strong comeback.
On a campus in one of the most liberal cities in the nation, one might be surprised to find one of the most robust College Republican chapters in the nation.
Letter to the editor: The answer to why young, educated Wisconsin residents are leaving the state is right in front of his nose — because they are young and educated. It’s really that simple. And petty bribes in the form of income tax credits won’t change a thing because the roots of the mass exodus run deeper than this governor would ever allow himself to admit.
More than 2,000 students each year live in the infamous Sellery and Witte Residence Halls. Not only are these halls unsanitary and conventionally unattractive, they are in many ways unsafe.
Noted: And University of Wisconsin political science professor Howard Schweber points out that this is the first court in history in which every member had been a judge and none has held elective office. He also says that the court hasn’t had a justice who had represented a criminal defendant since Thurgood Marshall, who died in 1991.
I first met UW-Madison’s Soil Scientist Francisco Arriaga this summer at an Uplands Watershed Group Farm Tour in Spring Green. He demonstrated how to do a water infiltration test and, standing in a large pit, showed the difference in soils between a conventionally farmed plot and a no-tilled one with a cover crop.
MADISON, Wis. – Wednesday, one of Madison’s most successful public arts projects comes to an end with the conclusion of Bucky on Parade.
On a liberal campus like UW, students should be aware of implications of their support for corporations trying to save face.
Given that Wisconsin’s unemployment rate is so low, it’s time to discuss the quality of Foxconn’s jobs.
University’s suspension of Davis does not equate to moral, just punishment for his actions.
The beginning of a new semester marks the commencement of another “Red Zone”: The term some people use to refer to the first few weeks of school each year during which more cases of sexual assault are reported than any other period of the year.
Even in the most contentious of times, when tumult rules and vitriol pushes harmony aside, some days all we need is a little Bucky love.
It’s college rankings season, and if you look at the top of the listings from U.S. News & World Report to the Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education, you’ll notice one thing missing: state universities. Despite the fact that 8 in 10 undergraduates attend a public college or university, very few of those schools crack the top 20 in many of the popular rankings.
Backlash against syllabus for political science 347 shows need for teaching classes through wider perspective.
An American history course requirement could foster a wider understanding of the present day in all its nuance
Fall is here. School is back in session. The election — maybe your first, and maybe the most important of your life so far — is just weeks away. If you care about where your hometown, your state and your country are headed, this is your moment.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison last week sent out contact information for experts on issues related to the annual return to school, and the range of topics covered struck us as such a good checklist we thought we’d share it with you.
Quoted: “by coining and investing in the Girl Effect, the Nike Foundation, the company’s philanthropic arm, “gave it authority and made it catchy,” says Kathryn Moeller, an assistant professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who is writing a book about the Girl Effect.
The Foxconn-led fund was one of two major announcements within two days, the first being its plan to invest $100-million in the UW-Madison College of Engineering for interdisciplinary research. The university will match that amount over time.
If you’re like me, Labor Day provides an impetus to start mapping a plan for fall weekends.
The first recommendation of the American Academy’s recent report “The Future of Undergraduate Education” is simple: we should work to improve undergraduate instruction.
Foxconn has donated $100 million to UW-Madison. Gov. Scott Walker and the rest of the GOP are so proud.
Right now, much of the west is affected by wildfires.An unlucky minority will have to evacuate their homes, and some will lose their homes altogether — or even their lives. But for millions more across the west, “smoke season” is a real thing.
—OtherWords columnist Jill Richardson is pursuing a PhD in sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She lives in San Diego. Distributed by www.OtherWords.org.
Chancellor Blank and other university leaders should see the giant strings attached to this gift and proceed with tremendous caution. In fact, they would do well to consult with faculty and students in UW-Madison’s highly ranked classics department. The Trojan horse was presented as a gift as well.
“(Even) if we get a little bit more rain,” said University of Wisconsin assistant research scientist and hydrologist Eric Booth, “It’s still going to add to this massive water that is slowly moving through the system and creating more problems.”
In the midst of political squabbling over state subsidies for the Racine County plant, Foxconn has continued to press forward with strategic investments in some of Wisconsin’s most valuable assets, including collaborating with the UW in, as Chancellor Rebecca Blank put it, “pushing the boundaries of knowledge.” We welcome the partnership.
And now, Madison. Add it to the growing list of communities across Wisconsin that are sharing in the economic surge brought by Foxconn’s immense plans for its $10 billion Wisconn Valley Science and Technology Park; construction is underway on the Mount Pleasant campus that will build ultra-high-definition display panels for use in medicine, self-driving vehicles, security and television sets.
The day always comes. But UW-Madison Marching Band director Michael Leckrone’s announced retirement is cause for sadness.
Noted: What this new tide of voters has also realized is that the remedy for such a regressive regime lies within our capacity. We can fight back by encouraging our peers to become civically engaged alongside us. Particularly at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, we are working to make sure that during welcome week, registering to vote is as routine as buying textbooks. Engaging students in activities that mobilize them to participate in the civic process is the key to translating our generation’s immense energy into real change — we know that when we vote, we win.
The debate on renaming spaces in Memorial Union at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was fundamentally about respect for African-Americans. Memorial Union’s Porter Butts Gallery and Fredric March Play Circle were both named for 1920s alumni who belonged to the Ku Klux Klan. The KKK was a terrorist group that Confederate veterans created in 1865 during the Reconstruction of the South after the Civil War, to rescind all legal rights of African-Americans through fear, intimidation, murder and legal statutes. The KKK at its height of popularity had members in every echelon: governors, senators, mayors, law enforcement.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Union Council recently voted to remove the names of Porter Butts and Frederic March from spaces in Memorial Union after learning the two men “belonged” to the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s. Raising the question of their association to the Klan was understandable and appropriate.
Since President Trump took office last year, his administration has been working to undo many Obama-era regulations affecting clean water, national parks, energy production and more. Most recently, President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency has proposed weakening Obama-era regulations on coal-fired power plants.
Every Badgers football season it’s the same. The student section fills up slowly for each game and older fans grumble about it. Players and coaches plead with them to get there on time. There are often even angry letters to the editor.
Chalk one up for Mother Nature.With an assist from the farmers of Oaxaca, Mexico; Mars candy company and researchers at the University of California-Davis and our own University of Wisconsin-Madison.We’re talking about growing corn. Something near and dear to Wisconsin farmers. And corn, of course, requires nitrogen — an essential ingredient for plant growth.
No matter what happens, UW must send a strong message because there is more at stake here than the success of the football program.
When I was in graduate school in the early 1980s, I remember hearing Winston Brill, a professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on the radio. Brill was predicting that in the coming years we would develop corn capable of incorporating nitrogen from the air into its tissues, reducing this important crop’s hunger for soil-applied fertilizers.
In recent days, we learned that UW-Madison scientists in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, along with their colleagues at the University of California, Davis and Mars Inc., discovered indigenous varieties of corn capable of cooperating with bacteria to fix up to 80% of the nitrogen that the crop needs.
It surprises me that the UW-Oshkosh Foundation would sue the UW System and its Regents for a poor business decision that the foundation itself had made.
Yet, from the public censure of left-wing poet Anders Carlson-Wee, you would think that the zombified corpses of Joseph McCarthy and his legion of followers have returned to roam Twitter in pantsuits and safety pins. The poet’s case is pretty straightforward. He wrote a poem told from the perspective of a homeless person. It was meant to highlight the intersectional plights of this marginalized demographic and how the homeless have to prostitute their afflictions to get attention from people on the street. The tidal wave of outrage that drowned Carlson-Wee rested on his use of African American Vernacular English and the word “crippled.”
Adam Szetela is a Ph.D. student in the sociology department at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison requires three orientation programs for all new students; an alcohol awareness seminar, a violence prevention program, and a diversity-inclusion program.
When I was a professor of American studies at Berklee College of Music, I taught courses on social problems. (Adam Szetela is a Ph.D. student in the sociology department at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.)
For any incoming college freshman, stumbling onto campus the first day has to be a disorienting experience. There’s so much you don’t know, ranging from where to eat to where your classes are to why your roommate insists on only changing his socks every three days.
“It may be the case that some of that equipment simply can’t be fixed anymore,” said Mark Stephenson of UW-Madison’s Center for Dairy Profitability in a Wisconsin Public Radio story. “Any one or two years, you can get by not replacing it. But four years? Some equipment is going to have to be replaced.”
Attending an institution like UW-Madison is a privilege that changes the futures of thousands of young people each year. Because of this, getting into UW is not an easy feat.
Column by Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health who also holds master’s degrees in public health and children’s librarianship
Advocates for diversity in higher education emphasize a variety of reasons. They range from business oriented considerations, like the need for a diverse and well-educated workforce to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse marketplace or the belief that diversity fosters innovation and creativity. Another reason is based on the idea that diversity enriches the educational experience of all students on campus, not just minorities.
Freezing tuition for in-state students at public colleges and universities is welcome help for Wisconsin families. But state leaders need to be realistic. Unless the state can provide better funding, too, the freeze will continue to harm schools.
Although a simple renaming may not seem like a big deal, the new name for the GSCC confirms that the community they serve is free from labels or binaries.
Renaming these spaces provides a unique opportunity not only to acknowledge UW’s problematic past but to promise an inclusive future.
Rather than enhancing the neutrality of administrative law judges, the executive order diminishes them by making their hiring subject to political considerations. It means that administrative law judges will be more akin to Roger Goodell than a Supreme Court justice, no longer bound by precedent and legal reasoning, but rather incentivized to decide cases to advance political, not legal, objectives. This calls for Congress to protect the continued independence of administrative law judges.
-Steph Tai is a law professor at the University of Wisconsin who represents amici in federal court and Supreme Court cases.
Noted: Patrick Iber is an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
We work and live in a time when historical knowledge has become intensely politicized. That knowledge is political is hardly new, but the rise of Donald Trump has heightened the polarization. His administration governs with a torrent of disorienting dishonesty, and his cry of “fake news” seems to mean less that the news in question is false than that it tells a story about him that he finds discordant with his self-image. Journalists — writers of the first draft of history, as the cliché goes — have struggled to balance their responsibility to reporting discovered facts with reporting the views of those who reject those facts.
As UW-Madison economics professor Noah Williams wrote in a recent commentary on the impact of hefty minimum wage increases in Minnesota, “The distortions from the minimum wage increases led to higher incomes for some workers, but lower employment particularly among young and low-skilled workers, and higher prices for the products of low-skilled labor.”
I had hoped I was done with the depressing subject of sea-level rise for a while, but a study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Oregon reveals a new dimension that’s too interesting and important to pass up.
Noted: The training and education of the committee. Committee members should receive training and educational resources that increase their knowledge of the impact of evaluation biases and ways to overcome them. Workshops of this sort have been offered to search committee members at Florida International University; Northeastern University; the University of California, Davis; the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin, among others.
Like most people in the state, I am following Foxconn with great interest.
By the time Speaker of the House Paul Ryan declared in April that he would be returning home to Janesville rather than running for reelection, Wisconsin had experienced one of the largest declines of the middle class of any state in the country. Its poverty rate had climbed to a thirty-year high; the state’s roads were the second worst in the country; the University of Wisconsin–Madison had fallen, for the first time, out of the rankings of the country’s top five research schools. A study estimated that 11 percent of the state’s population was deterred from voting in the 2016 presidential election by Wisconsin’s new voter ID law, one of the strictest in the nation.
The Summiteers of almost two decades ago who sounded the clarion call for a major strategy to establish Wisconsin as a player in the startup world must be pleased with remarkable progress reported in 2018 Portfolio analysis put out by the Wisconsin Technology Council.
