Category: Opinion

Column by Stephen M Gavazzi of Ohio State University.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On a liberal campus like UW, students should be aware of implications of their support for corporations trying to save face.