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…
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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…
Identity and Diversity Program: Panel Discussion and Residency Activities
Partnering with UWMC’s Lecture and Fine Arts Series, WIPPS co-sponsored a panel of Japanese-American scholars and artists who discussed WWII American internment history and…