This two-day conference will examine each of these projects separately and together. One of the abiding paradoxes of Wright’s work is the gap between the two projects: the first focuses on class without utopia, while …
Month: September 2019
Mechanisms for Building Partnerships between Cities & Universities: The EPIC-N Model
Connecting cities to universities can be a complicated task. This roundtable with Joel Rogers will discuss one model of easily connecting universities and cities: a proven fixed-time partnership that links city-defined issues with courses at …
Building the High-Road in Wisconsin: The UniverCity Alliance & UniverCity Year program
High-road policy and governance promotes shared prosperity, environmental sustainability, and efficient democratic government. Building high-road cities, metropolitan regions, and states is both good for citizens and a key way to move the national dialogue toward …
COWS report claims state tax policy contributing to inequality – SOWW 2019
A new report from UW-Madison’s COWS claims the state’s tax policy is contributing to inequality, as the richest Wisconsinites pay a smaller share of their income in taxes than poorer residents. COWS report claims …
Labor report chronicles severe decline of unions in Wisconsin – SOWW 2019
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s COWS released its annual “State of Working Wisconsin” this week, showing that since the passage in 2011 of Act 10 — the law that stripped public unions of bargaining rights — union …