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Public Issues Series: Maintaining a Fair and Independent Judiciary

…annual meeting in Wausau, June 1-2, 2012, at the Center for Civic Engagement. Justice Kelley will address such issues as: how to maintain a…

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

…Congress Possible?” is part of the 2015 Public Issues Series sponsored by the Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service and UW-Marathon County. This…

Public Issues Series: Public Schools and Privatization

…of education, and she’s been researching for 20 years the issues related to special education and various forms of school choice. Mead’s presentation, beginning…

Building Merrill Series: Citizen-based sustainability issues

…awareness about these issues and encourage more people to participate in growing regional resilience and shifting to more sustainable lifestyles. Looking to the future,…

WIPPS 2015 Spring News: Busy spring for WIPPS Public Issues Series

2015 kicked into high gear with with our Public Issues Series, launching February 26 with UW-Madison researcher and legal expert Dr. Julie Mead. She…

Let's Talk, Marathon County

Public Lectures & Forums

For over a decade, WIPPS has addressed the pressing issues that matter to residents of Wisconsin. We bring national, state and local to the…

WIPPS continues its mission amid challenges, loss of UW funding

…modify its business model, reducing the amount of programs and events to core areas – such as the Public Issues Series and the Veninga…

Eric Giordano

…Kettering Foundation and other national partners. He is a frequent public speaker on issues of public policy, citizen dialogue, democratic place-making and community problem-solving….

U.S. Immigration Policy: How Did We Get Here?

The topic of immigration has stirred passions and debate in our country for decades, especially in the past two years. Central Wisconsin is quite familiar with immigration issues, from the Hmong refugee resettlements of the 1980s to current Hispanic immigrants who provide the backbone of our dairy industry. WIPPS is proud to sponsor this three-part […]…