Category: Opinion

Nowhere in the world of corporate capitalism do underlings sit on the interview committees to hire their next boss. Logan Roy’s administrative assistant is not normally invited into the boardroom to help choose the next CEO in the world of HBO’s Succession. Mere mortals are not given a voice about whether Hawk Girl should be added to the team of superheroes that make up the Justice League—and perhaps rightly so. (Russ Castronovo and Elijah Levine)

Letter to the editor: In college, I worked for two years as a student animal caretaker at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Harlow Primate Laboratory.

The university should be prioritizing students rather than putting more money in the pockets of already wealthy faculty. If we are increasing tuition, it should first go to providing better education services that would further the success of students.

NIL exposes underlying inequality between men’s and women’s sports, but this is something we can try to fix.

Mr. Walker reportedly attempted to cut phrases like “the search for truth” and “public service” — as well as a call to improve “the human condition” — from the University of Wisconsin’s official mission statement. Gov. Ron DeSantis’s attack on academic freedom in Florida that has captivated the national press, alongside his preference for vocational classes, is from the same playbook.

Republican vote to strike down infrastructure spending package to have large implications for UW-Madison, UW System

It is unclear if Congress has the constitutional authority to require the court to allow cameras. What is clear is that it has costs as well as benefits. Because the court’s support is fragile, broad institutional changes should occur incrementally and with sufficient analysis. If Congress is serious about this issue, it should commission further research to examine the consequences before it takes action.

-Mr. Owens is a professor of American politics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Mr. Black is a professor of political science at Michigan State University.

New UW Health fellowship points to need for more specialized providers.

Increased sexual assault reports bring to light impacts of advocacy, need for further education on underlying power structures.

Letter to the editor: In the Feb. 24 story “Plan aims to revitalize the west side of campus,” UW-Madison strategic initiatives director for finance and administration Paul Seitz stated, “There really is no sense of place and no sense of being.”

Column by Neil Kraus, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.

Column co-authored by Steph Tai, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and teaches administrative law, environmental law and advanced contracts.

We write this piece in support of our fellow Big Ten students. We write this in honor of Brian Fraser, Alexandria Verner and Arielle Anderson as well as those injured — in support of their families, friends, classmates and educators.

Letter to the editor from Mladenoff, professor emeritus of forest ecology at UW-Madison who researched forest ecosystems, including disturbance, management, biodiversity, climate change, bioenergy and history.

A Jan. 26 Cap Times article (“UW-Madison launches new center to confront its history of exclusion”) spotlighted the UW-Madison’s announcement that a planned new Rebecca M. Blank Center for Campus History intends to expand on sifting, winnowing and reckoning by confronting the university’s “long culture of exclusion, racism and religious bigotry.”

Muir, the UW alum who inspired President Teddy Roosevelt to create the national park system and is credited with founding environmentalism, was discovered to be a racist who disparaged native Americans and Negroes as “dirty and lazy.” He founded the Sierra Club in 1892, serving as its president until he died in 1914, but during all that time only whites could be admitted as members.

According to U.S. News rankings, the UW-Madison Law School is ranked No. 43 in the nation. That’s candidate Everett Mitchell’s alma mater. Farther down the list is Marquette University Law School, ranked No. 105 — that’s where Janet Protasiewicz graduated. Both Daniel Kelly and Jennifer Dorow list Regent University as their law school. It ranks considerably lower, at No. 142 nationally.

New permanent project expands Sifting & Reckoning exhibit, provides history but fails to address future.

Many Wisconsinites came to mistrust higher education. Rising mistrust eventually underwrote efforts to remake shared governance and tenure in the University of Wisconsin system—direct forerunners of Florida’s undermining of faculty tenure now.

So, enjoy your ChatGPT fling. While it may be somewhat short-lived and ready for a long-term commitment, around the corner a deeper relationship is coming for the public sector, LLMs, and other forms of Generative AI.Subscribers can find related content at Bloomberg Government. –Ben Van Roo is the CEO and co-founder of Yurts Technologies Inc, an enterprise platform for Generative AI models. Ben also sits on the Advisory Council for the Global SOF Foundation, a non-profit organization for the global special operations community. Prior to Yurts, Ben built the National Security teams at Primer Technologies Inc. and was a national security policy researcher at The RAND Corporation. Ben has a PhD in Operations Research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Amid rising education costs, UW Law School must provide students with upfront tuition information.

UW students battle for positions in dorms to earn free housing, represent Madison housing crisis.

UW’s Suzuki Lab develops new meat substitution amid concerns over GMOs, rising food costs.

Letter to the editor: This is government at its worst — not honoring its commitments, breaking promises and being indifferent, uncaring and uninterested in how its actions affect a struggling rural county that’s trying to stay afloat.

The cap on easement deductions is a win for the general taxpayers in an otherwise bloated spending bill. Additional reforms could further demonstrate how fiscal prudence makes for good conservation.

Dominic Parker is an economist at the University of Wisconsin, a senior fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center, and the Ilene and Morton Harris Visiting Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution.

Column by Neil Kraus, professor of political science at UW-River Falls and author of two books on inequality in urban politics.