Browsing: Higher Education

The University of Wisconsin-Madison, the state’s flagship campus, is increasingly important to the future of Wisconsin. In a new century in which the economy is becoming ever more reliant on knowledge, the state’s lead university must be able to step up and better serve its constituency

Over the past generation, political correctness has advanced by leaps and bounds on our nation’s campuses.

Who is leaving the state? Where are they going?

Public versus private

An agenda for the 21st century

By Tonia Devon, Ph.D., Rustum Roy, Ph.D. State programs in science and technology in the late seventies and eighties were largely responses by governors to the steady downturn in the manufacturing sector of the economy, which in the northeast had become a serious problem.  They were also responding to international competition and the perception that

The Internal “Brain Drain” Reexamined

The state’s most valuable – and undeveloped – resource