Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface | Patrick J. Brenzel
Introduction: The University’s Service to Democracy | Chad Alan Goldberg
John Bascom and the Wisconsin Idea: Legacy and Prospects | J. David Hoeveler
Accuracy Always: Willard Bleyer and the Push for Better Journalism | Caitlin Cieslik-Miskimen
“No Mute, Inglorious Milton”: The Arts and the Wisconsin Idea | Maryo Gard Ewell
The Crucible of Conservation: Land, Science, Community, and the Wisconsin Idea | Curt Meine
Wisconsin Academics Outing LGBT Policies | R. Richard Wagner
Then and Now: Taking the Wisconsin Idea to the State Capitol | Karen Bogenschneider
The Power to Change Lives: The UW Odyssey Project | Emily Auerbach
Preserving the “Public Household”: The Wisconsin Idea and the 2011 Protests | Jane L. Collins
Laboratory of Oligarchy | Lewis A. Friedland
The Turn Away from Government and the Need to Revive the Civic Purpose of Higher Education | Katherine J. Cramer
Afterword | Gwen Drury
Contributors
Index