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Timeline – 1848 Founding of the UW. 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 ...
2013 – The university launches its first Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), online courses aimed at large-scale participation. 2014 – Signe Skott Cooper Hall, featuring cutting-edge learning environments, opens as the new home of the School of Nursing.
Nov 6, 2009 · Interesting Facts. Wisconsin became a U.S. territory following the American Revolution and soon after began attracting settlers looking for work in its mining, lumber and dairy industries. It was...
By the mid-1840s, the population of Wisconsin Territory had exceeded 150,000, more than twice the number of people required for Wisconsin to become a state. In 1846, the territorial legislature voted to apply for statehood. That fall, 124 delegates debated the state constitution.
- “Trying to plan for the future without a sense of the past is like trying to plant cut flowers”
- Introduction
- by Gwen Drury
- WISCONSIN IS DIFFERENT, BUT WHY AND HOW?
- THE WISCONSIN IDEA IS A VISION, NOT A MISSION
- KEY PEOPLE ASSUME KEY POSITIONS
- (22) Theodore Roosevelt’s Introduction to Charles McCarthy’s book
- (36) “Common Ground”
- 2) MORE THAN ONE WAY TO MISINTERPRET THE CATCH-PHRASE?
- (3) The McCarthy Story
- (5) Service
- From La Follette’s Autobiography (1911)
- From The Social Center (1913) by EJ Ward:
- (6) The Power of Their Experiences on Campus
- (10) John R. Commons
- (12) Turner’s Famous “Frontier Thesis”
- (13) Frederick Jackson Turner on Public Higher Education
- (15) Charles McCarthy and the Legislative Reference Library
- (18) A Self-Organizing System for Self-Governance & Democracy
- (19) Predators and Balance
- (20) Distinguishing between Self-Governance and Democracy
- BOUNDARIES ARRIVE WITH THE INVASIVE SPECIES
- TO THE INVASIVE SPECIES, LAND GRANTS SEEM LIKE “FREE LAND”
- CAPITALIZATION OF THE LAND IS THE BASIS FOR LAND GRANTS
- (22) Theodore Roosevelt’s introduction to Charles McCarthy’s book
- (23) Plutocrats and Party Bosses
- (26) University Experts
- (29) Early Definition of Social Capital
- (34) Excerpt from Van Hise’s Presidential Inaugural Address of 1904
- (35) Social Centers On Campus
- A UNION
- THE SOCIAL CENTER MOVEMENT AND THE WISCONSIN UNION
- (37) The Settlement Movement and its Influence on the Social Center Movement
- (39) The Social Center Movement
- NATIONWIDE
- WISCONSIN’S VERSION
- (39a) Not Manna from Heaven But a Crop
--Daniel Boorstin, historian and Librarian of Congress
To the practitioners who comprise UW-Madison’s Community Partnerships and Outreach (CPO) Staff Network, the Wisconsin Idea is at the heart of their day-to-day work with communities in Wisconsin and beyond. But the original meaning of the Wisconsin Idea has faded over time, replaced by a generic public service mandate. (1) “The Boundaries of the U...
Because of the success of the Wisconsin Idea, faculty, staff and students at the UW-Madison are now drawn to Wisconsin from all over the world. Many of us have worked at other universities whose missions are remarkably similar; our job descriptions may even be similar to other jobs we’ve held. Does that mean we now do our work differently, havin...
No one could have predicted that we would explode into the limelight like we did in the first two decades of the 20th century. Wisconsin – the State and its University – won nationwide celebrity status. How did a relatively new state with a small population, widely considered to be part of the “Western frontier,” far from more established center...
“The Wisconsin Idea” expressed not our mission, but our vision. It describes not what we do, but why and in what manner. While the University of Wisconsin shared a similar mission with other state universities, it was our vision of what successful achievement of that mission would look like and mean that differentiated us. (4) Missions of State U...
By the turn of the century, these men had spent many years talking with each other and developing a shared sense of what was happening in the world, and where Wisconsin fell on the continuum of development at this moment in time. Based on his notions of a predictable sequence of development that places would experience by virtue of being located a...
Crony-ism and secret deals had lead to corruption nationwide in the decades after the Civil War. Political bosses controlled party politics, while trusts and monopolies were concentrating their power and emerging as what Charles McCarthy would call “predatory wealth.” To protect the ability of the little fish to compete economically and to fully...
This new effort would focus on frequent, regular interaction not just annual gatherings. In this way, this new approach borrowed strategy from the “Settlement” movement that was happening at the same time. In other places, like New York City, the Settlement Movement and the Social Center Movement were focused on the “uplift” that University peopl...
I recently spoke with someone who had just moved to UW-Madison from a university in California, and was very distressed when he read the catch-phrase, “The Boundaries of the University are the Boundaries of the State.” Not knowing the history, he assumed that this was a strong statement of parochialism – that this university intends to hoard its k...
The Wisconsin Idea by Charles McCarthy (1912) PREFACE In my capacity as legislative librarian for over ten years in the state of Wisconsin, I have been constantly in touch with the legislation of this state, which now seems to be attracting some little attention throughout the country. The legislative reference department has been besieged by newsp...
John Bascom had pounded into his students’ heads “with sledgehammer blows” that they had a moral obligation to serve the state that had made their education possible. Charles Van Hise was the recipient of the very first Ph.D. ever awarded by the UW, and was also the first UW President who was a UW Alumnus. He took Bascom seriously. Van Hise had a...
“In no state of the Union are the relationships between the university and the people of the state so intimate and mutually helpful as in Wisconsin. We believe there that the purpose of the university is to serve the people, and every effort is made through correspondence courses, special courses, housekeepers’ conferences, farmers’ institutes, ex...
The fact is that while the strong meat of democracy was proving too much for the feeble digestion of Rochester, it had begun to be the regular diet of Wisconsin and the other progressive states. Indeed, the social center idea is just another way of saying the “Wisconsin idea,” just the expression in the local neighborhood of the method of fully us...
La Follette, Van Hise and Turner each joined debating societies and earned prizes for the speaking skills they honed, but they benefitted the most from the powerful campus culture in which they lived. The “Wisconsin Experience” these guys had as undergrads turned out to be powerful enough to literally change the world. They were hugely influenced...
Commons became nationally renowned as a reformer and a proponent of the Wisconsin Idea. Follow this link to the State Historical Society’s biographical page to learn about the influence that Commons had on the State and the nation. Though he would not have thought in terms of ecosystems, the link below describes efforts that seem consistent with b...
Turner would emerge as one of the most famous Historians in the U.S. as a result of his essay, first presented at the AHA meeting held in Chicago in conjunction with the 1893 World’s Fair, entitled “The Significance of the Frontier in American History.” His main points in this essay became known as “The Frontier Thesis” of American History. Tur...
In Charles McCarthy’s book, The Wisconsin Idea (1912), Chapter V is on Educational Legislation, and it begins with these words: Says that great student of Western history, Professor Frederick J. Turner, formerly of Wisconsin, now of Harvard University:-- “Nothing in our educational history is more striking that the steady pressure of democracy upon...
The Legislative Reference Library was a Wisconsin innovation that was eventually adopted by the U.S. Library of Congress. In Wisconsin, it was a powerful link in the reform process. But, its initial development may have had more to do with convenience than with reform of the legislative process. In 1900, the State Historical Society’s books we...
An Ecosystem is a self-organizing system that stays in one form or another depending on how it is balanced (by what is in it). The Wisconsin Idea was more about creating a self-organizing system – an ecosystem balanced to support an egalitarian democracy and a participatory economy – than it was about promulgating a doctrine or structuring a cent...
Limnology professor, Stephen Carpenter, undertook a comparison of two undeveloped lakes in Wisconsin. Named Peter and Paul, the lakes are located next to each other and had identical ecosystems. Carpenter’s research team was able to use one as an experiment and the other as a “control” for comparison. Though it had long been established that eco...
Democracy and self-governance are so closely related, they sometimes seem synonymous. However, distinguishing between the two can help us clarify the vision of the Wisconsin Idea. Democracy is a form of government. Self-governance describes the way in which democracy is enacted. The form of government shared by all of the states in the U.S. is d...
The First Nations on this continent were just that: sovereign nations. Because of this sovereign status, all official relationships between the government of the native residents and that of the newly arriving “United States” settlers had been established on a nation-to-nation basis. The “Indian Wars” and “Indian Removals” were conducted by the ...
When the Federal government made “land grants” to the states, the lands they gave had been secured by taking them from native peoples. The states receiving grants were encouraged to sell these lands, and to use the proceeds to establish educational institutions. In many cases, these lands had never before been “capitalized” – owned and exchange...
Even if the people of the First Nations had not been killed and driven out, simply the capitalization of the land alone would have represented a huge “regime shift” in their existing ecosystem, from use-value to exchange-value. And we should not forget that it was the capitalization of the land that made funding of state higher education possible...
Theodore Roosevelt, in writing the introduction to Charles McCarthy’s book, The Wisconsin Idea (1912) put it this way: The Wisconsin reformers have accomplished the extraordinary results for which the whole nation owes them so much, primarily because they have not confined themselves to dreaming dreams and then to talking about them. They have had ...
In La Follette’s Autobiography (1911), Bob states that he frequently quoted Wisconsin’s Chief Justice Edward G. Ryan. Said he: “There is looming up a new and dark power. I cannot dwell upon the signs and shocking omens of its advent. The accumulation of individual wealth seems to be greater than it ever had been since the fall of the Roman Empir...
Though the Social Center Movement was happening in various places around the country, Wisconsin’s approach (as lead by Extension) was focused on making democracy more participatory by using the common schoolhouse as the social center of a community. In the book, The Social Center (1913), Edward J. Ward describes what was said by a Wisconsin legisla...
Though the Social Center Movement was happening in various places around the country, Wisconsin’s approach (as lead by Extension) was focused on making democracy more participatory by using the common schoolhouse as the social center of a community. In the book, The Social Center (1913), Edward J. Ward describes what was said by a Wisconsin legisla...
Though the Social Center Movement was happening in various places around the country, Wisconsin’s approach (as lead by Extension) was focused on making democracy more participatory by using the common schoolhouse as the social center of a community. In the book, The Social Center (1913), Edward J. Ward describes what was said by a Wisconsin legisla...
Though the Social Center Movement was happening in various places around the country, Wisconsin’s approach (as lead by Extension) was focused on making democracy more participatory by using the common schoolhouse as the social center of a community. In the book, The Social Center (1913), Edward J. Ward describes what was said by a Wisconsin legisla...
Though the Social Center Movement was happening in various places around the country, Wisconsin’s approach (as lead by Extension) was focused on making democracy more participatory by using the common schoolhouse as the social center of a community. In the book, The Social Center (1913), Edward J. Ward describes what was said by a Wisconsin legisla...
Though the Social Center Movement was happening in various places around the country, Wisconsin’s approach (as lead by Extension) was focused on making democracy more participatory by using the common schoolhouse as the social center of a community. In the book, The Social Center (1913), Edward J. Ward describes what was said by a Wisconsin legisla...
Though the Social Center Movement was happening in various places around the country, Wisconsin’s approach (as lead by Extension) was focused on making democracy more participatory by using the common schoolhouse as the social center of a community. In the book, The Social Center (1913), Edward J. Ward describes what was said by a Wisconsin legisla...
Though the Social Center Movement was happening in various places around the country, Wisconsin’s approach (as lead by Extension) was focused on making democracy more participatory by using the common schoolhouse as the social center of a community. In the book, The Social Center (1913), Edward J. Ward describes what was said by a Wisconsin legisla...
Though the Social Center Movement was happening in various places around the country, Wisconsin’s approach (as lead by Extension) was focused on making democracy more participatory by using the common schoolhouse as the social center of a community. In the book, The Social Center (1913), Edward J. Ward describes what was said by a Wisconsin legisla...
Though the Social Center Movement was happening in various places around the country, Wisconsin’s approach (as lead by Extension) was focused on making democracy more participatory by using the common schoolhouse as the social center of a community. In the book, The Social Center (1913), Edward J. Ward describes what was said by a Wisconsin legisla...
Though the Social Center Movement was happening in various places around the country, Wisconsin’s approach (as lead by Extension) was focused on making democracy more participatory by using the common schoolhouse as the social center of a community. In the book, The Social Center (1913), Edward J. Ward describes what was said by a Wisconsin legisla...
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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.
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In 1964, officials reclassified Wisconsin’s state colleges as universities and the institution was renamed Wisconsin State University-Superior. In 1971, it joined the Universities of Wisconsin and became the University of Wisconsin-Superior.
