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Campuses Cautiously Train Freshmen Against Subtle Insults

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New York Times

At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, officials have put together a diversity presentation as a pilot program this year for 1,000 freshmen — whom some colleges refer to with the gender-neutral term first-year students. That program, expected to cost $150,000 to $200,000, follows incidents on campus last year. In one, a racist note was slipped under a black student’s door, prompting Patrick Sims, the university’s vice provost for diversity and climate, to post an emotional video on YouTube titled “Enough Is Enough.”

UW-Madison launches diversity measures

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

University of Wisconsin-Madison officials released a campus climate progress report Wednesday outlining a plan for increased diversity and inclusivity training for teaching assistants, hiring more mental health staff and opening a campus black culture center.

New UW Director of Community Relations Seeks to Fill Everett Mitchell’s “Beautiful Vision”

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Madison365

“I’m having all of these introductory meetings across the city, the county, and campus and all of these people I’m meeting are visionaries,” says Leslie Orrantia. “Whether its leaders of faith communities, leaders on campus, civic leaders … these people are saying that Madison has it. We can make it in Madison. That makes me very excited.”

Politics is cutting the heart out of Public Ivies

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Washington Post

Former UW System Regent Chuck Pruitt column: For generations, public universities have been seen as great equalizers in the United States, especially for the middle class. In many states, a high-achieving student could go to a “Public Ivy,” a land-grant, flagship university in Michigan, Wisconsin or California, among others, and receive a Harvard- or Yale-caliber education at an affordable price.

UW’s accolades grounded in Wisconsin Idea

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Green Bay Press-Gazette

Over the past year, efforts by political leaders have been introduced to replace the “Wisconsin Idea” with an updated and, what some would believe to be, a more current University of Wisconsin mission statement.

Berquam: UW program benefits all students

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Christian Schneider’s Aug. 12 column dismissing the value of programs promoting cultural understanding at universities read like it was inspired by the sort of touchy-feely “diversity training” lampooned on TV shows like “The Office.”What we’re actually doing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this year is quite different. The issues we’re addressing are real and the new Our Wisconsin program is a rational, evidence-driven response to them.

Inside the epic quest for a more perfect taffy

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Washington Post

If you’re hitting the beach this August, you may find yourself indulging in one of those characteristic treats of America’s boardwalks: saltwater taffy, made by a process conventionally known as “pulling” taffy. But if you’re a fluid dynamics professor at the University of Wisconsin, you might prefer to characterize it as “mixing” — mixing air with sugar, essentially. And you might start to get curious about the mesmerizing spirograph patterns traced by the rods on those taffy machines, and wonder, above all else, if there isn’t a more efficient way to achieve that silky result.

D’Amato: Ex-Badger Evan Jager wins steeplechase silver

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The steeplechase has carried the stigma of being a last resort for American distance runners who can’t quite cut it in the faster 1,500 meters or the nobler 5K. Few actually aspire to run the 3,000-meter race, with its 28 leg-sapping barriers and seven water jumps. It’s always tough. It’s seldom pretty.

Sotomayor coming to Madison

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Isthmus

Sonia Sotomayor grew up in a housing project in New York City. The daughter of native Puerto Ricans, her father died when she was just 9 years old. He never learned English. Her mother, an orphan, raised Sotomayor and her brother in the Bronx, in a neighborhood plagued by poverty and violence. Nevertheless, Sotomayor was always at the top of her class. In 2009, she became the first Latina and the third woman to be confirmed as an associate justice to the U.S. Supreme Court.

UW System President Cross Discusses 2017-19 Budget Request

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The Wheeler Report

UW System President Ray Cross is getting ready to present the UW System 2017-19 budget request to the Board of Regents and Governor Walker. In total, Cross said the UW System will ask for $42.5 million in new state GPR. In June, the UW System and the Board of Regents approved asking for $19.2 million in funding for the Wisconsin Grant administered by the Higher Educations Aids Board (HEAB).

UW-Madison researchers in the right spot to collaborate on Zika research

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Capital Times

Last October, Dave O’Connor and Tom Friedrich were talking about what they had learned about the emerging Zika virus when they realized they were in a sweet spot to take on an important public health research project. The University of Wisconsin-Madison not only has a School of Medicine and Public Health and a School of Veterinary Medicine, but the campus also offers facilities to breed and infect mosquitoes and has a primate center to allow for non-human primate experiments.

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Walker tells agencies he wants to continue UW tuition freeze

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WKOW-TV 27

Gov. Scott Walker is telling state agencies he plans to extend the University of Wisconsin tuition freeze in the next two-year state budget he will introduce in early 2017. Walker says in a letter to state agencies last week that most should submit budgets for the next two years that don’t spend any more money than they were allotted this year.