The University Staff Blog is a collective effort. We wish to raise the general profile of the staff itself within the campus community, and a diverse blog helps do that. We also strive to better articulate the role of the University Staff on campus and the people who make it up. We have tried to do that by profiling both the types of jobs they do and the extraordinary effort they put forth.
Lastly, we try to show that the interests of the staff are as wide and varied as the staff itself. While we try to pay particular attention to world and historic events that have a tie into working people, the UW, and Wisconsin in general, we also try to cover a large variety of subjects and make the blog a brief stop for people to get a short educational download on a topic they may not have explored before.
The Flying Column
It was on this day in 1897 that one of the most famous names in the fight for Irish Independence was born, Tom Barry. A veteran of service in the British Army in the First …
July 1, 2020Spread It Around
It was on 24 June, 1965, that advocates of colored Oleo Margarine won a significant battle at the State Capitol. Oleo margarine was available to Wisconsin consumers, but in a pale white variety, so as …
June 24, 2020Mississippi / 1963
On 12 June, 1963, Civil Rights activist Medgar Evers was shot and killed in his driveway as he was entering his family home in Jackson, Mississippi. Medgar Evers was a Mississippi native, born in 1925, …
June 12, 2020- More News
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