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The present-day University of Wisconsin System was created on October 11, 1971, by Chapter 100, Laws of 1971, which combined the former University of Wisconsin and Wisconsin State Universities systems into an enlarged University of Wisconsin System.
1971 – The Legislature establishes the University of Wisconsin System, merging the University of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Universities. 1971 – Union South, a part of the Wisconsin Union, opens to serve the expanding campus.
A state university system normally means a single legal entity and administration, but may consist of several institutions, each with its own identity as a university. Some states—such as California and Texas—support more than one such system. State universities get subsidies from their states.
Established in Wisconsin’s state constitution of 1848 and funded initially by a federal land grant, the University of Wisconsin (“the UW,” also called Wisconsin University or Wisconsin State University in the early years) enrolled its inaugural class of seventeen (male) students in 1849, holding its first classes in the Madison Female ...
Wisconsin was the last state entirely east of the Mississippi River (and by extension the last state formed entirely from territory assigned to the U.S. in the 1783 Treaty of Paris) to be admitted to the Union. With statehood, came the creation of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, which is the state's oldest public university. The creation ...
Ohio (1803), Indiana (1816), Illinois (1818), and later Michigan (1837) and Wisconsin (1848) were admitted to the Union under the terms of the Northwest Ordinance. new states and slavery. Sectional politics began to play a major role in considerations of state formation in the early 1800s.
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The Wisconsin Idea began as the principle that knowledge and education should be used to ensure that the people of the State could retain and exercise power in their government and economy. This vision, shared by the State and the University, led to Wisconsin’s rise to fame in the early 1900s.
