Picture this: A university with fewer and fewer quality faculty, students with dwindling access to desperately needed advising and career services, and an ever narrowing of what has historically been a vibrant and dynamic student body. This is the future of the University of Wisconsin-Madison if the Madison Undergraduate Initiative developed and championed by Chancellor Biddy Martin is not supported.
Critics of the initiative appear to be unaware of or insensitive to the critical challenges our university community faces — challenges Martin readily grasped during her short time working and living among us.