The new identity is not the only change we have been making at the Universities of Wisconsin. We’re embarking on change across all of our universities, consistent with our strategic plan, to ensure Wisconsin wins the War for Talent.

Wisconsin is widely-known as the most gerrymandered state in our country.

No audit. Voter anger. Politicians renegotiating deal. The list goes on.

Last week, unbeknownst to the public or the Wisconsin Legislature who came to Milwaukee’s rescue, Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson introduced a plan to increase his own pay and that of his political allies on the Common Council by a whopping 15%.

Program provided over half a million tests for students, faculty, staff and the public at UW campuses.

Somewhere along the line, our culture has warmed to snark and spite and conceit and cruelty. It has cooled on charity and service. This puts us in dangerous territory, no doubt.

Ever since the election of Donald Trump in 2016, and especially following his 2020 defeat, there are those who have argued that what is transpiring in the United States is analogous in many ways to the rise of fascism in Italy and Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

Hamas’ brutality is so clear that it demands condemnation in the clearest, strongest terms. Those who hedge on their condemnation, much less actually find those attacks justified, are just wrong.