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The '''University of Wisconsin-Madison''' is widely considered to be one of the most [[liberal]] public research universities in the nation.<ref>Bill O'Reilly, for example, stated in an interview with a Wisconsin state representative that "This University of Wisconsin at Madison [is] one of the most liberal colleges in the country's history, not just in the country."  The state representative did not dispute that about his own state's school.[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,166979,00.html]</ref>   

The '''University of Wisconsin-Madison''' is widely considered to be one of the most [[liberal]] public research universities in the nation.<ref>Bill O'Reilly, for example, stated in an interview with a Wisconsin state representative that "This University of Wisconsin at Madison [is] one of the most liberal colleges in the country's history, not just in the country."  The state representative did not dispute that about his own state's school.[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,166979,00.html]</ref>   

Lavishly funded, it has an enrollment of over forty thousand students and a budget of over two billion dollars. It is located in the state capital, [[Madison, Wisconsin]], on a sprawling lakeside campus.  It is academically ranked among the top fifty U. S. universities, and among the ten best public universities by U. S. News and World Report. <ref>Academically ranked among the top fifty U. S. universities, and among the ten best public universities by [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t1natudoc_brief.php U. S. News and World Report]</ref>

Lavishly funded, it has an enrollment of over forty thousand students and a budget of over two billion dollars. It is located in the state capital, [[Madison, Wisconsin]], on a sprawling lakeside campus.  It is academically ranked among the top fifty U. S. universities, and among the ten best public universities by U. S. News and World Report.<ref>Academically ranked among the top fifty U. S. universities, and among the ten best public universities by [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t1natudoc_brief.php U. S. News and World Report]</ref>

Campus ethnic diversity at UW-Madison is among the lowest in the Big Ten<ref>In the Big Ten schools, the U. S. News' [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/natudoc_campdiv_brief.php Campus Ethnic Diversity Index] ranges from 0.47 (Northwestern) down to 0.17 (Iowa), with UW-Madison third from the bottom at 0.22</ref>, with the student composition comprising only 3% Hispanics, 2.7% African Americans and 0.6% Native Americans. A ten-year plan to increase diversity, begun in 1998,<ref>[http://www.uwsa.edu/oadd/plan/ Plan 2008: Educational Quality Through Racial and Ethnic Diversity</ref> was judged in 2006 to have failed.<ref name=plan>[http://www.dailycardinal.com/news/campus-diversity-efforts-failing,-plan-2008-panelists-say.html  Campus diversity efforts failing, Plan 2008 panelists say], Daily Cardinal, May 1, 2006</ref> The university caps out-of-state enrollment at 25% and draws most of its students from mostly-white Wisconsin and Minnesota, but the university's chancellor said that the cause of the problem was that minority students graduate at rates far lower than other students and claimed that “[t]hose differences are not attributable to ability or preparation or background or anything other than the difficulty of being a student of color on our campus."<ref name=plan/>  But UW-Madison's history is not any better:  in 1940, [[Milton Friedman]] left his teaching job there "[a]fter an ugly display of ... anti-Semitism."<ref>David Warsh, ''Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations'' p. 133 (2007)</ref>

Campus ethnic diversity at UW-Madison is among the lowest in the Big Ten,<ref>In the Big Ten schools, the U. S. News' [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/natudoc_campdiv_brief.php Campus Ethnic Diversity Index] ranges from 0.47 (Northwestern) down to 0.17 (Iowa), with UW-Madison third from the bottom at 0.22</ref> with the student composition comprising only 3% Hispanics, 2.7% African Americans and 0.6% Native Americans. A ten-year plan to increase diversity, begun in 1998,<ref>[http://www.uwsa.edu/oadd/plan/ Plan 2008: Educational Quality Through Racial and Ethnic Diversity]</ref> was judged in 2006 to have failed.<ref name=plan>[http://www.dailycardinal.com/news/campus-diversity-efforts-failing,-plan-2008-panelists-say.html  Campus diversity efforts failing, Plan 2008 panelists say], Daily Cardinal, May 1, 2006</ref> The university caps out-of-state enrollment at 25% and draws most of its students from mostly-white Wisconsin and Minnesota, but the university's chancellor said that the cause of the problem was that minority students graduate at rates far lower than other students and claimed that “[t]hose differences are not attributable to ability or preparation or background or anything other than the difficulty of being a student of color on our campus."<ref name=plan/>  But UW-Madison's history is not any better:  in 1940, [[Milton Friedman]] left his teaching job there "[a]fter an ugly display of ... anti-Semitism."<ref>David Warsh, ''Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations'' p. 133 (2007)</ref>

[[Image:250px-BuckyBadgerGraphic.gif|left|thumb|150px|Bucky Badger, athletic mascot of the University of Wisconsin]]

[[Image:250px-BuckyBadgerGraphic.gif|left|thumb|150px|Bucky Badger, athletic mascot of the University of Wisconsin]]