Category: Opinion

Rethinking athletics beyond football, men’s basketball essential.

Lack of state funding leads to tuition hikes for Wisconsin residents, exacerbating existing affordability issues.

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.

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.

Wisconsin’s athletic director announced the men’s basketball head coach would return for another season. Was it the right choice?

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.

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.

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).

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.

How do students afford housing as new luxury apartment complexes are being built around the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus?

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.

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.

Positive mentorship experiences are central to fostering self-efficacy, success, well-being and inclusion of students, particularly women and racial and ethnic minorities. Nationwide initiatives such as the National Academies’ the Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM and the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experience in Research, among others, enable scalable mentorship training of researchers.

This program is the university finally backing their word and supposed dedication to aiding the Indigenous peoples of Wisconsin.

Lake Mendota’s condition due to recent weather may require postponement, or even relocation of a longstanding UW-Madison tradition.

Recent NIH grant is opportunity for UW to establish itself as research institution, increase number of STEM graduates.

Column by Reilly, president emeritus of the University of Wisconsin System and a member of the civic education nonprofit Keep Our Republic.

Column co-written by Laura Albert, a professor of industrial and systems engineering at UW-Madison.

Dear Editor: The recent article by Capital Times reporter Kayla Huynh (“UW campus closures leave ‘bitter’ feelings about lost opportunities”) highlights the mess related to higher education in this state.

When you give in to the spectacle, you give her a platform.

The Badger Herald Editorial Board joins over 50 student newspapers in publishing student-written op-ed calling for action on gun violence.

With recent polls giving Donald Trump a reasonable chance of defeating President Biden in the November elections, commentators have begun predicting what his second presidency might mean for domestic politics.

-Alfred McCoy is the J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.