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It has one of the smallest minority enrollments among major schools, with only 11.5% of its student population being African American (2.7%), Asian American (5.2%), Native American (0.6%) or Hispanic (3%).
It has one of the smallest minority enrollments among major schools, with only 11.5% of its student population being African American (2.7%), Asian American (5.2%), Native American (0.6%) or Hispanic (3%).
It has a pleasant lakeside campus, and is academically first-rate (ranked among top fifty U. S. universities<ref>[http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t1natudoc_brief.php National Universities: Top Schools] U. S. News and World Report</ref>
It has a pleasant lakeside campus, and is academically ranked among the top fifty U. S. universities<ref>[http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t1natudoc_brief.php National Universities: Top Schools] U. S. News and World Report</ref>
[[Aldo Leopold]] wrote his classic 1949 work, ''A Sand County Almanac,'' while a professor of game management at the University of Wisconsin.
[[Aldo Leopold]] wrote his classic 1949 work, ''A Sand County Almanac,'' while a professor of game management at the University of Wisconsin.
Alexander Meiklejohn's Experimental College, inaugurated in 1927, was a short-lived but very influential educational experiment at the University of Wisconsin. It was one of a number of attempts to present the liberal arts as a unified whole, with emphasis on the direct reading of original sources. It can be broadly consider as part of the "Great Books" movement, which lives on in its purest state today at St. John's College in Annapolis, and in an attenuated form at WIsconsin as the Integrated Liberal Studies program.<ref>[http://www.wisc.edu/ils/Meiklejohn.html Meiklejohn's Experimental College], University of Wisconsin ILS website</ref>
Alexander Meiklejohn's Experimental College, inaugurated in 1927, was a short-lived but very influential educational experiment at the University of Wisconsin. It was one of a number of attempts to present the liberal arts as a unified whole, with emphasis on the direct reading of original sources. It can be broadly consider as part of the "Great Books" movement, which lives on in its purest state today at St. John's College in Annapolis, and in an attenuated form at WIsconsin as the Integrated Liberal Studies program.<ref>[http://www.wisc.edu/ils/Meiklejohn.html Meiklejohn's Experimental College], University of Wisconsin ILS website</ref>
The university's radio station, WHA, was an important pioneer in broadcast radio, and makes the (questioned) claim to be "the oldest station in the nation"<ref>[http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/WIReader/Images/WER0607.html "The Oldest Station in the Nation"], photograph of historical marker]</ref> The physics department began experimental transmissions in 1900, received experimental license 9XM in 1915, began voice transmissions in 1920, and received its current call letters, WHA, in 1922.
It has long been one of the most liberal institutions in the United States.{{fact}} It has a relatively low representation of minorities in its enrollment—11.5%—compared to over 20% nationwide and 12.7% for the state of Wisconsin.
It has long been one of the most liberal institutions in the United States.{{fact}} It has a relatively low representation of minorities in its enrollment—11.5%—compared to over 20% nationwide and 12.7% for the state of Wisconsin.