<p>Thought provoking article on UW and diversity. The comments are particularly “tolerant.” </p>
<p>[The</a> Badger Herald: Opinion: UW?s lack of diversity, though troubling, far from a lost cause](<a href=“http://badgerherald.com/oped/2010/10/12/uws_lack_of_diversit.php]The”>http://badgerherald.com/oped/2010/10/12/uws_lack_of_diversit.php)</p>
<p>Cool…I can get all the positive news items about UW from barrons and all the negative ones from novaparent…fair and balanced, as they say…</p>
<p>Milwaukee already has a large comprehensive UW campus known as UW Milwaukee. So the UW System–and it is a system–has put very significant resources into serving Milwaukee in a much more cost effective way than having people run from Madison to Milwaukee to do what exactly? UWM is very actively working on economic development and poverty issues for the Milwaukee region.</p>
<p>Now I would not expect many Madison students to know that. Or much else about what UW actually does in this area. Is the author aware of POSSE, PEOPLE and the Next Wave programs at Madison? </p>
<p>[UW-Milwaukee:</a> Center for Economic Development - Home Page](<a href=“http://www4.uwm.edu/ced/index.cfm]UW-Milwaukee:”>http://www4.uwm.edu/ced/index.cfm)</p>
<p>Meanwhile Madison has been very successful in attracting QUALIFIED Wisconsin minority students.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.news.wisc.edu/18422[/url]”>http://www.news.wisc.edu/18422</a></p>
<p>“Meanwhile Madison has been very successful in attracting QUALIFIED Wisconsin minority students.”</p>
<p>According to whom – UW Madison itself? </p>
<p>Zapfino, your post might more accurately read: “Cool…I can get all the [PR] items about UW from barrons and all the [objective] ones from novaparent.”</p>
<p>If you read the note I posted Qualified means a 22 ACT and Top 25% class rank. Those are modest qualifications to be able to succeed at the UW Madison where the median student has over 28 on the ACT and is in the Top 10% of their class–usually at tougher competitive high schools.</p>
<p>Your obvious objective is hardly being objective.</p>
<p>A little more on the UWM work in Milwaukee</p>
<p>[Office</a> of Charter Schools](<a href=“http://www4.uwm.edu/soe/centers/charter_schools/]Office”>http://www4.uwm.edu/soe/centers/charter_schools/)</p>
<p>[Plan</a> to Establish School of Public Health in Downtown Milwaukee | Public Health | UW-Milwaukee](<a href=“http://www4.uwm.edu/publichealth/news/featured/20100802-a-home-for-the-school-of-public-health.cfm]Plan”>http://www4.uwm.edu/publichealth/news/featured/20100802-a-home-for-the-school-of-public-health.cfm)</p>