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.
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.
