Positioning Central Wisconsin to Better Compete in the Global Economy

Sponsored by the Wausau Region Chamber of Commerce, the Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service, Centergy, the Judd S. Alexander Foundation, UWMC, McDevco,…

National Issues Forum: A Nation in Debt, How Can We Pay the Bills?

In collaboration with the Kettering Institute, WIPPS is sponsoring a series of National Issues Forum style deliberations on our nation’s (current) $14 trillion national…

Lessons Learned from a Century of Workers’ Compensation

Picture, Celebrating History: In September 1961, President John F. Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, and Wisconsin Gov. Gaylord Nelson joined U.S. Postmaster General…

Teachers’ Institute Project: K-12 Teachers Institute Facilitator Training

On August 14-15, WIPPS launched the first phase of its Teachers’ Institute project. An eager group of teachers, teachers-in-training, and education majors met at…

Wisconsin Dairy History

The Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service and other individuals and organizations collaborated on the first stage of a comprehensive project to record…

National Issues Forum: Economic Security Deliberations

Sponsored by the National Issues Forum and the Kettering Foundation, WIPPS was a principal co-investigator of a national project investigating how widespread public deliberation…

Acting Deliberatively-Tools for the Classroom

WIPPS Director Eric Giordano and WIPPS Outreach and Civic Engagement Consultant John Greenwood presented a workshop titled “Acting Deliberatively: Tools for the Classroom” on…

Kids Voting: USA

Kids Voting USA (KVUSA) was founded in 1987 to get students involved in the processes of democracy and to help them become educated, engaged…

Obey Resource Center: CCE Grand Opening

To celebrate the Grand Opening of the UW Center for Civic Engagement on October 23, 2010, a ceremony and program were held at the…

Town of Wausau

Approached by the Town of Wausau to create a survey that would measure the opinions of residents regarding municipal services, WIPPS enlisted Professor of…