Republican operatives and the billionaire right-wing donors who fund them have launched a fierce assault on dissent by students on campuses across the country, including UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee, who are raising legitimate objections to U.S. policies regarding Israel and Palestine.
I began writing the op-ed just as Passover was beginning, the encampments at UWM and UW Madison had not started, and I didn’t want to inflame the local situation by focusing on what was happening in other states. Obviously, the situation has changed. As Jewish students are taunted on campus, as protesters shamelessly call for peace while chanting for intifada, as protesters harass students with visible Jewish clothing and symbols, I can no longer remain silent about what our students have been experiencing on Milwaukee’s campuses, and I can no longer accept the silence of university administrations. Students shouldn’t have to stage a sit-in or storm a chancellor’s residence to be heard.
Letter to the editor: Heavy-handed tactics didn’t work with the Vietnam War protests, and they will not work now. I urge leaders to be on the right side of this horrible issue.
Letter to the editor: I had the unpleasant surprise of having to pay to the Wisconsin Department of Revenue over $3,000 when I filed my taxes.
Letter to the editor: University campuses maintain a special status in society where First Amendment rights, and their extension into academic freedom, must be zealously preserved. UW-Madison maintains a robust history of free expression, which has helped shape the university into a world-class institution that substantially contributes to the vibrancy of our Dane County communities.
We are Jewish faculty, staff, and students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who stand with the peaceful and righteous coalition of student activists calling for the university to divest from Israel.
Given what can feel like Vietnam-era levels of unrest at UW-Madison and other campuses nationwide, those numbers seem surprising.
Perhaps it was an example of progressive policing or Madison-centric policing or the “Madison Model.” In any case, a pro-Palestine encampment protest on UW-Madison’s Library Mall got through two overwhelmingly peaceful days and nights—full of speeches, chants, praying, reading, sharing food, card games, and studying—before police violently attempted to break it up on Wednesday morning.
If Trump continues to defy a lawful order of the court, Justice Merchan shouldn’t hesitate to use the only effective deterrent the law allows: imprisonment. John Gross is a clinical associate professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and director of the Public Defender Project.
Letter to the editor: President Jay Rothman and other Universities of Wisconsin officials have proven to be callous, disingenuous and morally bankrupt with the manner they’ve treated the citizens of Richland County.
Column by Burden, a professor of political science at UW-Madison.
Letter to the editor: I was on the UW-Madison campus during the late 1960s and witnessed firsthand the ongoing riots and protests surrounding the Vietnam War and protests over race relations.
That same year, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Black students called for a campus-wide student strike until administrators agreed to 13 demands. Along with “thousands of white allies,” they held rallies, boycotted classes, marched to the state Capitol, took over lecture halls and blocked building entrances, leading the governor to activate the Wisconsin National Guard.
We, Muslim and Muslim-allied faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, affirm our solidarity with and support for UW-Madison students who — in light of Israel’s siege and attack on Gaza — are demanding that the University of Wisconsin does not show complicity with Israel’s current military actions that have killed over 34,000 Palestinians (70% of whom are women and children) and displaced a million people who are now facing famine. It is our understanding that these students are demanding that the university disclose its financial investments, divest from any American Friends Service Committee listed companies, cut ties with Israeli institutions and call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire.
A recent Journal Sentinel article reported how a consulting firm was paid $2.8 million to study the finances of the University of Wisconsin System (“Are UW campuses financially viable?” April 13).
Minority students will face severe consequences without DEI programming.
Police have been attempting to put an end to Mifflin for years, but at what cost?
Letter to the editor: The UW Board of Regents appears to be incapable of creative solutions. The GOP seems committed to a strategy geared toward degrading support for higher education by defunding the UW Extension and our small two- and four-year campuses that serve rural Wisconsin so well.
Column by Menzie Chinn, professor of Public Affairs and Economics in the UW-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs and Department of Economics.
Rethinking athletics beyond football, men’s basketball essential.
Lack of state funding leads to tuition hikes for Wisconsin residents, exacerbating existing affordability issues.
Co-authored by ssociate professor of Management and Human Resources, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Column by John P. Gross, a clinical associate professor at University of Wisconsin Law School and director of the Public Defender Project.
Letter to the editor: It is time for Rothman to stop fiddling and finally join Evers in forcefully saying: “Enough is enough!” UW schools are not a political threat. They are a precious statewide resource and should be treated as such.
Programs provide important financial, community support for students of color at predominately white institution.
Letter to the editor: Readers who travel east on Johnson Street toward North Park Street in Madison may be interested in this: On the south side of the corridor, two former residence halls built in 1962 adjacent to each other — Susan Burdick Davis House and Zoe Bayliss House — have recently been demolished.
Changes to FAFSA in 2024 causing delays, placing stress on high school seniors making college decisions.
Access to scholars. There are brilliant scholars whom nonacademics don’t get to engage with. So, to increase access to them, I hosted a weekly show on Instagram Live where I interviewed various academics, including Gloria Ladson-Billings, professor emerita at University of Wisconsin at Madison, and Chris Emdin, Maxine Greene Chair for Distinguished Contributions to Education at Teachers College. You may not want to do something like that every week, but you might post clips from an academic talk or a video of an interview regularly, or at least from time to time.
Column co-authored by Asifa Quraishi-Landes, a professor of law at the UW Law School and co-founder of the National Association of Muslim Lawyers
A much needed policy for the university, but so much more can still be done.
Million dollar campaign to appease Republicans could be detrimental for marginalized students.
Column by Megan Moreno, professor of Peditatrics, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Wisconsin’s athletic director announced the men’s basketball head coach would return for another season. Was it the right choice?
Column by Jack Williams, professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Column by Erik Iverson, chief executive officer of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
Letter to the editor: The Wisconsin women’s basketball team was fantastic Thursday night in their first postseason game in 13 years, but where were the Wisconsin cheerleaders?
Letter to the editor: Wisconsin Republican legislators, with one exception, deny the University of Wisconsin staff and programs that help individuals whose economic, cultural, historical and educational backgrounds did not give them the preparations for higher education (“DEI deal votes lead senators to reject two Evers Regent appointees,” March 12).
Letter to the editor: Rothman might do us a favor by openly owning his right-sizing plan, instead of shocking us with out-of-the-blue campus closures.
Written by Ross Milton ,an assistant professor with the La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW-Madison. His research focuses on the political economy and public finance of state and local taxes and includes studies of tax limitation policies and the effects of local taxes on alternative revenue sources.
From major student organizations to individual community members, UW-Madison administrators should pay attention to the needs of those on all ends of political conversations.
UW renaming policy falls short on incorporating community desires.
Written by Benny Witkovsky, a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. His dissertation examines nonpartisan politics and polarization in small cities in Wisconsin.
From the UW Board of Regents to the Legislature and governor, those chargedg with the care and preservation of the public’s investment in higher education watch idly by while UW system President Jay Rothman wields his ax to make the system’s budgetary ends meet.
Written by Benny Witkovsky, a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. His dissertation examines nonpartisan politics and polarization in small cities in Wisconsin.
Embracing opportunities and finding success at a large university.
Though mandatory DEI training has been attacked by conservative groups, it must not be removed.
After the minimum qualification benchmark is met, we can move down the list to consider similarities in everything from policy to favorite baseball teams. As far as shared emotion, the fact that a candidate’s level of anger appears to match one’s own reveals little about whether they are fit for office, possess sound judgment or will improve our lives or the state of the country. All it means is that two people are angry.
-Paula Niedenthal is a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she directs the Niedenthal Emotions Lab. She is the past president of the Society for Affective Science and is the author of the textbook “Psychology of Emotion” (2nd edition).
Column co-authored by Jared E. Boyce, an M.D.-Ph.D. candidate in the Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Harvard knows that a lesson needs to be learned from Gay’s troubled tenure. The problem? They can’t seem to agree on what that lesson is.
Column by Joshua Mezrich, a professor of surgery, transplant surgeon and holds the Mark A. Fischer Chair in Transplantation at UW Health and the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
How do students afford housing as new luxury apartment complexes are being built around the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus?
The Legislature can take commonsense steps to protect our students in Wisconsin. According to Everytown for Gun Safety, in states where elected officials have taken action to pass gun safety laws, fewer people die by gun violence. Gun safety laws save lives. And when it comes to the strength of our gun laws, Wisconsin is falling behind. We must do better, and we must act now.
By Katherine J. Cramer and Jonathan D. Cohen. Ms. Cramer is co-chair of the Commission on Reimagining Our Economy at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Mr. Cohen is a senior program officer at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Letter to the editor: An education center on Picnic Point in Madison is not environmental stewardship, it is a form of development. While Madison builds gigantic buildings and races to “Manhattanize” the city, nature preserves and parks provide a refuge from culture and concrete.
Letter to the editor: For years we were stuck watching losing hockey on TV. Finally we have a product worthy of being televised each and every week. Even the local station used to show a few games every year. Evidently nobody seems to care.
Column by Neil Kraus, the president of United Falcons of UW River Falls and Jon Shelton, president of UWGB-United, and vice president of Higher Education for American Federation of Teachers-Wisconsin.
The biggest downfall of early decision for many students is financial. Depending on the school, tuition can add up to painful numbers, and an unwritten rule is that early decision often means less financial aid because colleges have less incentive to award merit scholarships. At the very least, students are unable to compare aid packages when bound by an acceptance. This is important when applying early decision as tuition can be a factor that students don’t know to consider.
The time is now for Wisconsin to reinstate their baseball team.
Allocation of funds to UW System has potential to help students, but only in tandem with DEI programming.
Campuses that offered two-year programs set to shut down amidst funding, enrollment issues.
