Category: Opinion

Budget cuts threaten comprehensive institutional support for underrepresented students.

Bill to end scholarship displacement could benefit students with financial need, but unrealistic without sufficient funding for the Universities of Wisconsin.

UW-Madison has become increasingly more selective with the student body they admit. The university’s acceptance rate has fallen from 67% to 49% in the past decade. This number takes an even steeper drop when you take into account the out-of-state acceptance rate falling to roughly 18%.

If there’s one thing Madison can thank COVID-19 for, it’s canceling Freakfest.

Letter to the editor: Vos and his Republican friends constantly say they represent the hardworking taxpayers of Wisconsin. How does keeping money from middle-class working people meet that slogan. Vos keeps claiming that diversity at the Universities of Wisconsin is a bad thing. When I attended a UW school in the 1950s, we saw almost no diversity.

While many Wisconsin state employees received pay increases from the state government Tuesday, employees within the Universities of Wisconsin were left out. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos claims he will continue to withhold pay increases from these employees until the UW-System gets rid of all programming related to diversity, equity and inclusion.

Letter to the editor: Tom Still’s column last Sunday, “Remove barriers to UW projects,” neatly summarized the baffling behavior of the Legislature toward UW-Madison and UW-La Crosse.

Graduate students begin programs because we want to learn. We have a passion for a subject area and we want to contribute to a solution. I am constantly in awe of my friends and lab mates, the dedication and creativity they pour into their degrees. But we are more than just students.

Letter to the editor: The same university that opens its mouth to speak on countless social issues and found it necessary to remove a “racist” rock suddenly finds itself unable to comment on students supporting terrorists who murder children.

Rebranding of University of Wisconsin System is unnecessary change that will likely not have intended impact.

Conservatives have been claiming for decades that the University of Wisconsin-Madison is brainwashing young people to make them liberals. The problem with that claim is that some of the most right-wing figures in American politics are UW grads.

Letter to the editor: As a UW-Madison alum, I read with embarrassment the article “Profanities, lewd behavior mar conference livestream.”

An engineering professor in Platteville. A student counselor in Whitewater. A crops and soils expert in Dodge County.

These are just a few of the 41,000 University of Wisconsin System employees waiting for top Republican lawmakers to release their 4% raise.

Column by president of the Badger Institute, a free-market think tank based in Milwaukee.

Letter to the editor: Power politics has become the norm in Madison and has pushed good governing aside. Rather than employing the power of his office by denying pay increases to UW’s employees Vos should take his case to the UW Board of Regents as they are the governing body for the UW System.

This program certainly has the potential to be helpful to incoming first-generation students, but it is long overdue and needs much more development to truly support first-generation Badgers.

Letter to the editor: In spite of many corporations and business embracing employee diversity and inclusion programs Vos sees the UW programs as ineffective and creating racial divisions by focusing support on these specific groups of students.

Republican-proposed bill aims to guarantee admission to UW-Madison for in-state students, ironically represents chance to expand access to underrepresented students.

When the forefront response to a student being beaten into a coma is to state that her situation is some sort of anomaly to campus living, it becomes crucial for us as students to look back and understand these statistics of abuse to be a result of Madison-specific institutional enabling.

Letter to the editor: I don’t know why Vos has a problem with diversity and equity, except that maybe he just wants our UW System schools to follow Florida’s lead and remove all positions which may ensure equal treatment under the law. What’s next? Removal of all courses that teach theoretical subject matter?

Despite leading hateful sermons on college campuses, Christian preacher garners broad support online.

The struggle to find affordable housing in Madison is at an all time high.

While not doing much about climate change, the Biden administration has managed to increase the cost of living and weaken national security. Canceling oil leases signals to markets that making new investments won’t be profitable. This restricts domestic supply, increases prices and weakens Western economies. It also bankrolls our adversaries. Russia depends on higher oil prices to finance its war. Mr. Biden has also drawn down the strategic petroleum reserve and, more recently, allowed huge Iranian oil sales to China. The climate-change war on domestic fossil-fuel production is truly an all-around disaster.—Anika Horowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, economics

As this controversy unfolds, it is important to know the law and practice of judicial recusal and impeachment in Wisconsin and beyond — a topic that we, as scholars of state courts and constitutions, have studied closely. In short, recusal is rare, and impeachment is even rarer.

Conservation must include more diverse voices from people of color to truly enact change.

Despite Evers’ partial-veto targeting DEI funding, Republicans continue to threaten UW System

Listen again to the title track of Van Morrison’s groundbreaking 1968 album “Astral Weeks” and you will instantly be reminded of Richard Davis’s genius.

Virtually every policy that governs our higher education system is based on a
dangerous myth — that students do, and should, meticulously shop around for
colleges nationwide and pick the best fit.