Re-energizing civic engagement: Register today!

From engaging community through social media, artistic endeavors and grassroots problem-solving to seeing infrastructure issues in a new light, the 20th Conference on the…

WIPPS staffer helps grow love for gardens

Source: Wausau Daily Herald Leaders at the Monk Botanical Gardens have planted the seeds for a new garden club aimed at young teens. And…

Government Accountability Board

Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board (GAB) has been praised as a national model for promoting clean and open government. But some state legislators are calling…

Public Issues Series: Back to the Future? [Paul Carver]

Is Congress as an institution broken? Or is it the people who run it? What makes a successful Congress – and why is the…

Kids Voting: High School Student Civic Participation Project

WIPPS partners with Kids Voting USA-Wisconsin to help educate young people learn about the importance of civic participation. WIPPS supported KVUSA’s biennial mock convention…

Kettering Project: K-12 Consortium Deliberative Research Project

WIPPS maintains an ongoing research collaboration with Kettering Foundation of Dayton, Ohio, as well as high school and college institutions in Birmingham, Alabama; State…

Deliberative Forum Series: K-16

In partnership with regional high schools, the UW-Marathon County Assembly of Student Leaders and Organizations, UWMC Department of Student Affairs and the UWMC Undergraduate…

Deliberative School Research Project

WIPPS continues to work with the Kettering Foundation and educators in School District of Athens and Wausau, Wisconsin, to study the impact of deliberation…

Re-energizing civic engagement: Small City and Regional Community

‘Re-energizing civic engagement’ is the theme of the 20th Conference on the Small City and Regional Community, set for October 6-7 at the UW…

Congressman Petri’s earns award from Queen Elizabeth

Retired Congressman and Obey-Petri Lecture Series speaker Tom Petri was recognized for his longtime efforts in helping bolster U.S.-U.K. relations. He was formerly named an honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire during a June 11 ceremony at the British Ambassador’s Residence in Washington, D.C.