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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee freshman students interested in media careers through a Living Learning Community were assigned to each interview a person at least 20 years older than they are about changes in the media. For these students, the news is immediate, individualistic, constant, on-demand, and often accessed through social media or a smart phone. Sometimes, […]

Milwaukee— Hillary Clinton spoke in the Wisconsin Room at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she said young people have a stake in the upcoming election particularly when it comes to college tuition and student loan debt. “I have a plan that will allow any person to go to a four- year college or university to […]

Milwaukee—Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton came out hard against the current state of college tuition in a speech given in the Wisconsin Room of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Union on Thursday. The Former Secretary of State deplored the debt that students incur while getting their college degrees. Clinton encouraged those in attendance to raise their hands […]

With white shutters warming under the bright spring sunshine, Dorothy Bertolas’ small one-story home sits quietly along the sleepy residential streets of Menomonee Falls, Wis. The house’s interior is warm, snug, and neat as a pin. Its walls, all painted in a crisp eggshell white, are laden with relics of a time gone by. Years […]

Gov. Scott Walker vetoed a provision in the biennial state budget on Sunday that would have turned all probationary contracts for academic staff in the UW System into fixed-term contracts. The Legislature would have mandated the elimination of indefinite status, the non-PhD equivalent of tenure, for about 158  academic staff at UW-Milwaukee, as well as more […]

“We’re ready for this, boys!” yelled captain Zach Lubin. “Everything starts tonight.” The thud, thud, thud of his goalkeeper gloves echoed inside the tunnel. I fiddled with my shinpad tape, stretched a quadricep muscle, and glared at the referees, willing them to get this landmark evening underway. I was understandably impatient. I had waited six […]

There are 158 employees at UW-Milwaukee whose probationary terms could be switched to fixed term contracts – likely two years long – if the full Legislature approves a Joint Finance Committee measure ordering the Regents to eliminate indefinite status for academic staff in the UW System. As a result, they are on what the chancellor […]

Fourteen students in the JAMS 500 Advanced Integrated Reporting class created this piece of collaborative student journalism in spring 2015. The goal of this “time capsule” is to document for future generations how UWM students live, work, study and play. Student collaborators were: Ryan Artman, Sean Cornell, Brooke Dowden, Katie Eggers, John Gingrass, Joe Halley, […]

Reaching across the top of a wooden casket as it slowly rolled past more than 1,000 mourners in the pews of the St. Monica Parish, sisters Chloe and Hailey tightly held each other’s hands. Walking in front of them was their little brother, Bryce, and father Michael. Together, as their eyes welled with tears and […]

It was a cold gloomy evening when the protest began on Dec. 19, 2014. It started at Red Arrow Park. Many people gathered, bundled up in their coats, hats, gloves and scarves. “No Justice, No Peace!” read the signs people held above their heads as they walked toward Interstate-43. “Shut it down! Shut it down!” […]

Karen Kramer pulled her wide-eyed, 22-year-old daughter, Becky, into a hug. She held her daughter tight, so she could hear her heart beating rapidly. As Karen kissed her daughter’s blonde head, tears rolled down Karen’s cheeks onto Becky’s pale, bruised skin. The two sat for hours, talking and crying. Karen begged Becky to stay. To […]

For Willie Bedford’s five siblings, his face was a distant memory. They lost their brother 45 years ago in Vietnam. In the decades since, one-by-one, their photos of him were also lost, especially after the family matriarch died. It had been about 20 years since any of them had seen his picture. Until Memorial Day […]