Higher Education in the Era of Swift Technological Evolution: A Response to the UW-System’s Dismantling of the Liberal Arts Curriculum
BY RENEE CALKINS, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, UWM AAUP, University of WIsconsin-Milwaukee National studies have underscored the value employers place on the analytical and communication skills that training in the humanities and social sciences, cornerstones of a liberal arts education, is focused on developing. And the national press has repeatedly highlighted liberal arts education as particularly suited…
#SanctuaryCampus!
BY RACHEL BUFF …it means nothing… …it means everything. …It’s purely symbolic… …it will get us in trouble. Rumors swirl about the current movement to adopt sanctuary campus policies in universities and K-12 schools. Emerging from immigrant rights and students of color organizations, the #SanctuaryCampus movement responds to threats made against immigrant and Muslim communities…
Everyone Deserves a Job for Life
Skeleton Crew
The No Confidence Movement
No Confidence!
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: Horror Show Edition
BY RACHEL BUFF POST-ACT 55 WISCONSIN, THE FIRST DAY OF UWM SPRING BREAK: less than a week out from the March 10 adoption by the state Board of Regents of new, Act 55-compliant policy that threatens the much-vaunted Wisconsin Idea. The new policy riddles the academic freedom and university democracy consecrated in the Wisconsin Idea…
We Now Know, or, Another Semester Older, Deeper in Debt: Takewaways from the University of Wisconsin Struggle, 2015
