Browsing: Higher Education

How to get the UW System more involved in ground-level economic development.

The funding disparity between UWM and UW-Madison reflects that the two institutions have sharply different histories and are in many ways two different animals.

City is making progress on educational attainment, but not nearly enough.

The headline in late October was a shocker: “Wisconsin business taxes rank 43rd”  — seventh worst in the country.

Male students are so outnumbered on our nation’s campuses that it’s worth considering who really controls the dynamics of day-to-day life.

Who’s really listening to all the talk about jobs in Wisconsin?

Report recommends specific ways for legislators to hold schools of education accountable and make sure teachers are getting the training they need in order to succeed in the classroom.

A troubling attitude seems prevalent today in many professional circles: confusing one’s own self-interest or viewpoint with the public interest.…

Winston Churchill famously called Russia “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” Those words also apply to University…

Remember Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war stalker of President George W. Bush? The poor lady’s 15 minutes of fame expired a…

Marquette takes a bigger role in Milwaukee’s policy debates By Sunny Schubert Just north of the new Marquette Interchange-the busiest…

Lake Wobegon has nothing on the UW-Madison School of Education. All of the children in Garrison Keillor’s fictional Minnesota town…

Creating the Capacity to Manage and Compete

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