Noted: Author Ryan J. Owens, J.D., Ph.D., is a political science professor at UW-Madison, a faculty affiliate at the University of Wisconsin School of Law, and the Acting Director of the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Noted: The bill was passed without ever assessing the cost: Currently, $2.26 billion in general fund dollars are allocated to the Department of Corrections over two years. Meanwhile, just $2.14 billion is allocated for the University of Wisconsin System. Hundreds of millions of that come just from the extra costs associated with the truth-in-sentencing law.
Some welcome news came regarding the University of Wisconsin System late last week.
Colleges are beginning to see gains from programs that centralize advising across campuses, as in the California system and at Virginia Tech, or ones that better coordinate efforts among career counselors, financial-aid officers, and advisers, such as at the University of Wisconsin.
That does not mean, as Walker seemed to suggest, that the fight against partisan gerrymandering is finished. The court invited additional litigation. Bill Whitford, the retired University of Wisconsin law professor who was the named plaintiff in the Wisconsin case, said, “We are confident we can prove the real harms to real citizens caused by lawmakers who choose their voters instead of the voters choosing their representatives.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” local radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on the three-year sentence given to former UW-Madison student Alec Cook on sexual assault charges.
Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his long-awaited retirement from the Supreme Court on Wednesday, leaving conservatives to gush with joy and liberals to wring their hands. The vacancy sets off what will be a very interesting summer. -Ryan J. Owens, J.D., Ph.D., is a political science professor at UW-Madison, a faculty affiliate at the University of Wisconsin School of Law, and the Acting Director of the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Role of citizenry in electing, holding judges accountable crucial for future sexual assault cases.
Letter to the editor: Gov. Walker cut state support of the University of Wisconsin System’s budget by $250 million in 2015. The shock of such a large cut led to many researchers, who bring millions to the university in federal grants and provide high-quality research and teaching, to look for positions outside of Wisconsin.
The Applied Population Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison also issued a report last week that pointed out: “In 2016, more non-Hispanic whites died than were born in twenty-six states; more than at any time in U.S. history. Some 179 million residents or roughly 56 percent of the U.S. population, lived in these 26 states.”
The antiquated funding statutes of the tech college system, which date back to before the Vietnam War was over, is a prime example of the “sacred cow” of public higher education in this state.
MADISON, Wis. – The American Family Championship is being held at University Ridge golf course this weekend, and in just its third year it already feels like an iconic Madison event.
Each year, more than 6 million children in the United States are referred to Child Protective Services for abuse or neglect. Previous research on the consequences of early life stress and child maltreatment shows that these children will be more likely to develop a multitude of social and mental health problems. Teens and adults who experienced early adversity such as abuse, neglect or extreme deprivation are more likely to be socially isolated, spend time in jail, and develop psychological disorders including anxiety and depression.
Piece co-written by Tova Walsh, an assistant professor of Social Work and Affiliate of the Center for Child and Family Well-Being.
It’s safe to say when Jack Salzwedel started brainstorming the idea of a professional golf event in Madison with Steve Stricker 10 years ago — or even when the discussion turned serious three or four years ago — the American Family Insurance Championship that we know today was beyond even their hopes and dreams.
In 1957, I came to Madison from Illinois and began pursuing graduate studies at UW. The light of education in Wisconsin was such a welcome change from the darkness in Illinois.
The U.S. Supreme Court soon may redefine how legislators get elected to office. Two high-profile cases that seek to rein in partisan gerrymandering are slated for decisions by late June. The rulings could be landmarks. But, however the court comes out, the fight against gerrymandering will be far from over.
Op/ed by Barry Burden and Robert Yablon.
When UW-Stevens Point leaders announced a proposal March 5 to address fiscal challenges, the purpose was to invite dialogue to shape a plan for a sustainable future for our institution.
Keep an open mind about people’s backgrounds.
Column by Burden, a political science professor and director of the Elections Research Center at UW-Madison
The refrigerator was warm inside yet was still being used to store vaccines, which were likely useless. He was told there was no electricity to power the refrigerator because there was no kerosene to fuel its generator.
That’s the kind of problem NovoMoto, founded by two UW-Madison doctoral students, hopes to solve through its pay-as-you-go approach to providing solar power to people, schools and communities in places such as sub-Saharan Africa.
One late afternoon last fall, I was chatting with Ken Adamany, the long-time Madison music impresario, for an article I was writing on the 50th anniversary of Otis Redding’s fatal plane crash into Lake Monona.
Op-ed by R. Alta Charo, the Warren P. Knowles professor of law and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
In Tetra Tech EC, Inc. v. Wis. Dep’t of Revenue, the court has a chance to send America a message: Judging must be left to judges.
Meeting the climate goals of the Paris Agreement is going to be nearly impossible without removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
-Gregory Nemet is an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Is it a trade dispute with China, or is it a trade war? If the latter, is it on hold, or not? The flip-flops in America’s trade relationship with China are coming in ever more frequently, as President Trump issues and rescinds threats.
-Menzie Chinn is a professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin. His research examines the empirical and policy aspects of macroeconomic interactions between countries.
Mone is leading a partnership of nearly two-dozen colleges, universities and tech colleges in southeast Wisconsin in an unprecedented effort to respond to the Foxconn project — as well as the workforce challenges facing other Wisconsin employers. He and others agreed those challenges are forcing a lot of businesses and institutions to raise their game.
The future however is unpromising for the lesser known schools. A number of planned or actual business school closures have occurred at the University of Wisconsin, the University of Iowa, Wake Forest University, Virginia Tech, and Simmons College.
Public education has been one of our greatest success stories as a nation.Our country pioneered in making public elementary and high schools available to all children and created land-grant public universities that made college possible for citizens from all backgrounds.
The ’60s in Madison is why I am who I am.
Column from Neil Kraus, professor and chair of the University of Wisconsin-River Falls political science department.
I did not expect to sit through a white man crooning about Syrian children longing to be held in his arms at my college commencement ceremony. But I did graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Wisconsin Idea is traditionally understood to mean the boundaries of the University of Wisconsin extend to the boundaries of the state, a philosophy that knowledge should be shared with communities in ways that directly benefit them.
There is a battle raging for the soul of America’s universities. One side, on the left, seeks to limit the range of acceptable speech to a curated set of “safe” ideas. Another side, on the right, wants to aggressively enforce the addition of other ideas to restore a balance of perspectives. Both approaches are misguided and dangerous.
At the Wisconsin Technology Council, several of the corporate members have ties to UW-Madison, either in their initial formation, or over time as research partners. Many were apples that fell close to the tree. About 300 companies have spun off the UW-Madison campus and most have planted roots within a 30-mile radius.
This State Journal editorial ran on May 20, 1968, two days after firebombs were thrown through a window at a University of Wisconsin administration office, damaging 15,000 undergraduate records. It was two years before the Sterling Hall bombing.
Reading into “current understandings” of the document would allow our constitutional rights to be sacrificed to the gods of political correctness, political expediency, and political fear.
Having separate ceremonies wasn’t about exclusion or division from the rest of campus but, rather, an emphasis on the shared experiences we had as students of color at majority-white universities. It was a shared sigh of relief that we made it despite obstacles that included hate crimes and threats, higher rates of sexual assault and the everyday reminders that there were so few of us on campus.
The creation of the new UW-Community Collaboration: The Alliance for the American Dream easily fits the “big ideas” portion of our editorial agenda for building an inclusive, growing economy in Dane County.
Casual observers of the 2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial race may have been surprised when state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers announced last week that he can’t wait to replace members of the University of Wisconsin System’s Board of Regents.
On July 1, University of Wisconsin Marathon County will become a campus of UW-Stevens Point, as part of a larger, UW System-wide realignment. While the restructuring will see the end of the 13-campus UW Colleges as a higher education institution, I believe it will bring educational benefits to Wausau and central Wisconsin for years to come. UW-Marshfield/Wood County also will be a part of this new three-campus partnership.
Column by Tom Loftus, a former member of the UW Board of Regents and speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly.
The spirit of open trade with foreign markets reflected in recent trade policies has a direct impact on the Wisconsin economy. A 2010 study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics found that foreign exports generated about 115,000 jobs in Wisconsin, and about $10.5 billion in total income to Wisconsin households.
Column by Owens, a political science professor at UW-Madison and acting director of the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Important information was misstated or left out altogether in a recent opinion piece by Jonathan Anderson and David Pritchard about the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s response to requests for information on sexual harassment allegations against faculty, staff and students.
Far from generating crime, this group appears to suppress it. A groundbreaking new state-by-state study covering 1990 to 2014 by sociologists Michael Light of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Ty Miller of Purdue in the journal Criminology concludes that “undocumented immigration over this period is generally associated with decreasing violence.”
Important information was misstated or left out altogether in a recent opinion piece by Jonathan Anderson and David Pritchard about UW-Madison’s response to requests for information on sexual harassment allegations against faculty, staff and students.
Imagine my surprise at finding a fair and balanced article on the recent talk by conservative commentator Dennis Prager at UW-Madison. It was a breath of fresh air among all the usual anti-Trump/anti-Walker diatribes.
When I talk to senior scientists, many view harassment as an injustice that happens somewhere else, not in their field or at their institution. But data suggest that the problem is ubiquitous. In separate surveys of tens of thousands of university students across Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, upwards of 40% of respondents say that they have experienced sexual harassment.
If you follow the various paths of University of Wisconsin First Wave Program graduates — as teachers, social workers, attorneys and all forms of artists — these hundreds of students have made a difference in Madison, the state, and across the country.
Gordon Giampietro is qualified. He deserves a hearing and a vote by the Senate to determine whether he ought to be confirmed.
Recent displays on our very own Bascom Hill should be addressed constructively, not aggressively.
On this week’s episode of “Center Stage, with Milfred and Hands,” State Journal editorial page editor Scott Milfred and editorial cartoonist Phil Hands endorse autonomous vehicles, following a demonstration of the technology on the UW-Madison campus.
Vel Phillips, the first African-American to serve on Milwaukee’s city council, in 1962 proposed an ordinance banning racial discrimination in the sale or rental of housing. Her aim was to end practices that prevented blacks from moving to better neighborhoods. Her proposal was defeated 18-1.
The criminal charges filed by the Wisconsin attorney general’s office against the former chancellor and vice chancellor of UW–Oshkosh have the smell of prosecutorial overreach, scapegoating and missing of the mark.
I know where my anxiety comes from. Last year, I had a paper come out (V. L. Butitta et al. Ecosphere 8, e01941; 2017). It was well received and got a lot of attention on Twitter. It was the first time I felt like I was actually doing science, not just playing a part. But then, everything died down. Sometimes I go online to get a figure from my paper, and see that there aren’t any new citations. I feel like I’m shouting into the void. (Butitta is a PhD student in limnology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.)
UW’s Automated Vehicle Proving Grounds is one of 10 federally designated labs testing autonomous vehicle technology, a distinction Wisconsin should be proud of, and which could lead to spinoff businesses and jobs.
Freedom of speech not good enough excuse to target already marginalized groups.
CALS has embarked on an organizational redesign effort to optimize the structures of the college to ensure a bright future for our college, the students we teach and the people we serve through our research and outreach.
