Badger Herald op ed on diversity

barrons
Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:58:46 +0000

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.

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?

[UW-Milwaukee: Center for Economic Development - Home Page](http://www4.uwm.edu/ced/index.cfm)

Meanwhile Madison has been very successful in attracting QUALIFIED Wisconsin minority students.