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Republican candidates join nationwide scrutiny of tenure
Badger Institute has argued for more leeway to lay off professors Republican candidates for governor are joining politicians across the country who are increasingly skeptical of tenure guarantees for professors. U.S. Rep. Tom…
Most UW System schools’ enrollments are stagnant as tech colleges flourish
While undergraduate enrollment in most University of Wisconsin System schools trends downward, there has been a dramatic increase in students choosing the state’s technical colleges since the pandemic. Historically tied to…
Money now more important than Milton or Macbeth at UW schools
Dramatically fewer University of Wisconsin System students are pursuing degrees in the humanities — including English, history and the arts — than a decade ago. Meanwhile, degrees in computer science, business and engineering…
UW students turning away from gender and ethnic studies degrees
Students want ROI and jobs 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. Bachelor’s degrees focusing on gender…
As hunger looms, Democrats in ‘non-winnable’ situation
Impending loss of FoodShare benefits eclipses unrelated big changes coming Monday The paradox of a political party wholly invested in growing the social welfare state but refusing to open the government to feed impoverished…
Port Washington to be land of opportunity for job-seekers
Tech school grads among those who’ll benefit from data centers Technical college graduates and small business owners will be big winners in the massive Vantage Data Centers development soon expected to become the largest…
Reckless Milwaukee drivers pushing conservatives out of traditional lane
Camera culture becoming even more pervasive Sen. Cory Tomczyk, a Republican from Mosinee, says he fully expects to take criticism from his own party for helping author a bill that would allow Milwaukee police to use cameras…
Claims of data center water use are laughably wrong
Lake Michigan not imperiled by water needs The biggest data centers planned for Wisconsin, the Microsoft project in Mount Pleasant and the Vantage project in Port Washington, are not a threat to local water systems or to Lake…
Bill would use tax credit to lower cost barrier to new nuclear in Wisconsin
Measure includes shifts in state’s priorities in law for ‘only way we keep lights on’ Legislation touted by its sponsor as the logical follow-up to a bipartisan bill signaling support for new nuclear energy in Wisconsin got…
Fixing regulatory rampage will require amendment, say observers
But reforms via statute might help Wisconsin avoid a still more onerous environment Fixing the damage wreaked by the Wisconsin Supreme Court when it stripped the Legislature of its power to halt bureaucrats’ regulations will…
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