Category: Opinion

Mandating certain consumer behavior limits freedom, suppresses competition.

Although this new STEM “pipeline” appears to be contemporary, it actually uses outmoded and ineffective methods to deal with the problems facing women.

A few months after Donna Shalala was named UW-Madison’s chancellor designate, she began a brief speech to the Wisconsin Alumni Association board by saying, “I’ve actually spent seven days of my entire life in Wisconsin, so you’ll forgive me if I do not offer you a detailed agenda on the future of the university.”

Prioritizing profits over individual needs hurts religious, economically disadvantaged students.

Dietary restrictions for students of faith unaccounted for in proposed dining hall account minimum of $1400.

A new UW-Madison study underscores the theory that living in poverty, being underemployed and suffering the effects of crime and abuse are physically and emotionally unhealthy and dangerous.

UW is losing its workforce to more attractive off-campus options, and it’s time for them to raise wages if they hope to keep a viable employee base.

If we are to create a welcoming, accepting, inviting campus with options for all economic, religious and dietary backgrounds, then we need to create a meal plan that can attend to all students. Not just the average student.

Freeze keeps tuition costs low for students, allows UW schools to maintain academic excellence.

Few sectors of the economy have been hit harder in the proposed overhaul of the federal tax code than higher education. The legislation calls for new taxes on graduate students and the endowments held by wealthy institutions, and the elimination of several student and family tax benefits.

Robin Mittenthal, the former advisor for the global health certificate at the University of Wisconsin, died this weekend in an accident at his farm.

The Republican tax plan winding its way through Congress includes a special middle finger to the nation’s graduate students.

On Oct. 11, 2017, University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross proposed that the UW Colleges, a system of two-year liberal arts universities, merge with seven of the state’s four-year universities. Just under a month later, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents voted to approve this merger.

Shouldn’t students’ chances for success at UW-Madison be the same, regardless of their families’ educational background?

From the moment I arrived in Wisconsin last year, I loved the familiar energy, intellect, and passion for doing things well.  I was happy to return to my Midwestern roots.

More than 145,000 graduate students are attending college for free, according to an estimate by the American Council on Education, which represents 1,800 college and university presidents across the country. For these students, who are often living on minimum-wage stipends, working long hours, studying and attending classes, repealing the tuition tax break could have dire financial consequences.

Eliminating a significant number of programs at the University of Wisconsin-Superior is counterproductive. It affects not only the first generation students, but also the entire student body, families, UWS and its community, faculty and staff, and the city of Superior.

As a member of UW-Madison’s faculty, I was deeply troubled by the recent article on sexual harassment at the university. The way in which UW handled alleged sexual harassment in the urban studies and planning department is a double failure for women on this campus.

Peterson, professor of psychology and popular public figure came to campus to foster stimulation, not divide the student body.

President Trump’s improbable campaign focused on the singular importance of trust — trust in Donald Trump against all comers. His campaign was built on the foundation that he alone was the person voters could believe in to make American great again.

Based on recent campus climate survey results, the problem should not be lack of conservative voices, but lack of support for marginalized voices.

For the past two years, we have been fighting to establish a Hmong American Studies Certificate Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The 2016 Campus Climate Survey found that only 35 percent of trans students felt welcome on campus. Trans students are also more likely to be the target of hate or bias incidences. We need to do better.

IAT tests unreliable, produce random answers about test-takers.

After 60 years of hard work and dedication, UW-Milwaukee has been recognized by the Carnegie Foundation as one of America’s top-tier research universities. This “R-1” ranking goes to only 2% of all U.S. universities and is awarded for excellence in faculty research and graduate programs and the accomplishments of its alumni. Milwaukee and Wisconsin have been honored in national publications for building and supporting such an outstanding academic institution.

MADISON, Wis. – Madison has long been home to one of the world’s preeminent experts and thinkers on criminology including –- of particular relevance today — Problem Oriented Policing.

Dear Editor: Kudos to the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty members for unanimously passing a resolution to become carbon neutral by 2050 or sooner!

This week, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved a sweeping reorganization of public regional higher education in Wisconsin.

After nine months of confusion, chaos, and cascading tweets, Donald Trump’s White House has finally made one thing crystal clear: the U.S. is staying in Afghanistan to fight and ? so they insist ? win. “The killers need to know they have nowhere to hide, that no place is beyond the reach of American might,” said the president in August, trumpeting his virtual declaration of war on the Taliban. Overturning Barack Obama’s planned (and stalled) drawdown in Afghanistan, Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced that the Pentagon would send 4,000 more soldiers to fight there, bringing American troop strength to nearly 15,000.

It’s hard to make the case for lowering Wisconsin’s drinking age the same week as University of Wisconsin researchers release a study with new evidence of the causal effect of alcohol on a range of cancers.

Letter to the editor from former member of the UW Board of Regents and speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly.

I recently announced a proposal to join the UW Colleges with our four-year comprehensive and research institutions, as well as move University of Wisconsin-Extension divisions to UW-Madison and UW System administration. The Board of Regents will consider the proposal this week and will vote on whether we can proceed with planning.

As many are undoubtedly aware, it is annual campaign time for some of our most important nonprofits, especially umbrella organizations such as United Way and Community Shares. That includes the State, University and UW Health Employees Combined Campaign of Dane County to whom we give a special shoutout today.

Alarm over the state of free speech and academic freedom on American campuses is nothing new under the collegiate sun. But it has reached fever pitch in the past few years.

President Trump may have lost the popular vote last November, but his campaign was clearly onto something powerful. The Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently commissioned a national survey to find out what it was.

The gales of November sweep across the University of Wisconsin-Superior campus with especial brutality this year. But Lake Superior isn’t the culprit. The school administration is.

MADISON, Wis. – A 70 percent approval rating is usually pretty good. That’s roughly the percentage of students on the UW-Madison campus who say they feel welcome and respected — and thus safe — on campus.

This bill sets a dangerous national precedent for all public universities.

Even though the Wisconsin unemployment rate is very low, its economic growth rate is stuck in low gear. How to improve on that long-term pattern?

I am writing regarding the re-organization of the UW Colleges that is under consideration by the UW System Administration and scheduled to be acted upon by the UW Board of Regents at its November meeting.

While much remains unknown, we do know this: Our top priority throughout the transition will be what is best for our students. Regardless of campus location, we will prepare our students to be successful in the careers that await them. We will educate them to succeed professionally and personally, to be leaders in the workplace and their community.