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Mar 9, 2021 · Why Wisconsin Could Swing the 2024 Presidential Election. Through standardized testing, the NAEP tracks how fourth- and eighth-grade students across the country are performing in specific...
- The Nickname Isn't About The Animal, But Lead Mining
- Badger's Legacy Cemented in State Seal and on Campus
- Real Badgers Do Call Wisconsin Home — But You May Never See One
Indigenous tribes like the Ho-Chunk mined for materials like lead in Wisconsin for more than 1,000 years, particularly in the southwest region of the state near the Mississippi River. It was used for things like body paint and weights for fishing nets, said Kurt Griesemer, a primary education coordinator at the Wisconsin Historical Society. Soon, c...
The animal became "cemented in Wisconsin's lore" in 1851, Griesemer said. University of Wisconsin Chancellor John Lathrop created a state seal that was so hated that no record of it exists. It was then that Gov. Nelson Dewey and Chief Justice E.G. Ryan redesigned it to feature badgers — of both the four-legged and miner variety. This design stuck. ...
Badgers are "mysterious" creatures, said David Sample, an ecologist at Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources. "They are hard to know a lot about," he said. Emily Latch, a professor of biological sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a badger researcher, said beyond being elusive, badgers are just plain mean. There aren't any b...
Apr 20, 2023 · The Wisconsin Policy Forum report compared funding from state and local taxes and tuition for two-year technical colleges and four-year University of Wisconsin campuses with those in other states using 2021 federal data.
The Universities of Wisconsin (officially the University of Wisconsin System and sometimes referred to as the UW System) is a university system of public universities in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It is one of the largest public higher-education systems in the country, enrolling more than 160,000 students each year and employing approximately ...
Jun 4, 2024 · Pro-Palestinian encampments at Wisconsin universities, as well as the police response to the protests, might also undermine Biden’s support among younger, more liberal voters.
Two-year public colleges in the state – essentially the WTCS campuses – received $17,153 per pupil in state and local tax and tuition funding in 2021. That was fifth-highest in the nation and was well above the U.S. average of $11,714.
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Jan 9, 2023 · More nonresident students means more revenue for all state universities that were barred by state lawmakers from raising residential undergraduate tuition for nearly a decade. The freeze was lifted in 2021, but UW System officials haven’t proposed increasing what undergraduate students from Wisconsin pay.
