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- In talent squeeze, independent schools respond — and seek relief
- Data center reassurances don’t stand a chance against ‘Terminator’
- Teachers in flight
- Grades now hyper-inflated at UW-Madison
- Ethnic studies courses required to graduate at all 13 four-year UW schools
- Crucial Badger-supported housing bill passes through Senate
- School levy tax credits reward big spenders at the expense of frugal districts
- Lawmakers split on how to keep WisEye broadcasting
Browsing: Culture/Politics
The average GPA for undergraduate students at Wisconsin’s flagship university increased to 3.48 in the recently completed fall semester — up from 3.28 just 10 years ago.
All 13 four-year University of Wisconsin System schools impose an ethnic studies requirement in order to graduate.
ordan Stolz, born in West Bend and raised in Kewaskum, won gold and set Olympic records in both the 500- and 1,000-meter speed skating events at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy, continuing a storied legacy of success for Dairyland natives. He also brought home a silver medal in the 1,500-meter event.
Time can be better spent on other things like AI Here’s a question I hope somebody asks anyone who applies…
The number of babies born in Wisconsin has declined to its lowest level since 1941, according to data from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
Widespread, intergenerational skepticism of government is not merely the result of America’s increasingly cutthroat politics.
Two-thirds of Americans under the age of 30 say they believe most people cannot be trusted, according to a recent nationwide Marquette University Law School poll.
Plans for a municipally-owned grocery store in Madison is the perfect illustration of why government should stay out of an intensely competitive business it knows nothing about.
Republican candidates for Wisconsin governor are joining politicians across the country who are increasingly skeptical of tenure guarantees for professors.
About half as many students in the Universities of Wisconsin system are getting bachelor’s degrees in ethnic and gender studies as did at their peak in 2013.
Assembly Democrats intend to introduce a bill to grant Devil’s Lake State Park legal rights, as if it weren’t a set of inanimate rocks, water, trees and lichens.
“Democrats put themselves in the situation we’re in, and it’s non-winnable,” says Rachidi, a researcher who has written extensively about FoodShare and SNAP.
Wisconsin taxpayers ought to be rooting hard for conservatives to hold the line during this current federal government shutdown and let the pandemic-era super-subsidies for the Affordable Care Act run out at the end of the year.
Silence after attack on the soul of universities puts too much at risk [The views expressed here by Trevor Tomesh…
State Rep. Joy Goeben and state Sen. Steve Nass have introduced a bill that would prohibit local governments from enacting a “rights of nature” ordinance.
In both Washington and Madison, basic economic principles are routinely ignored, as if policymakers believe they can repeal the laws of supply and demand with campaign slogans.
Teen birthrates are a small fraction of what they used to be As some of America’s most prominent conservative voices…
Tony Evers has had enough and that’s not a good thing for Democrats. More Wisconsinites (48%) approve of the way…
A state Supreme Court decision wresting rulemaking authority from elected state representatives has opened the door to a barrage of new regulations and fees in Wisconsin.
The U.S. Senate has an opportunity to slow the growth of Medicaid, something that hasn’t been seriously tried for decades, Sen. Ron Johnson says.

