Democracy and Justice Studies UW-Green Bay News Posts

All Rise: A UWGB Civil Liberties Lecture Series

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Mar 4, 2021

Join Jessica Karbowski Weare on Tuesday, March 9 from 6 to 7 p.m., for a Civil Liberties Lecture series via Zoom. Weare serves as Deputy Legal Counsel to Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan. Previously she worked as Associate General Counsel for Global Trade Compliance-Sanctions at Facebook, spent almost a decade practicing international law as an…

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Prof. Emeritus Harvey Kaye discusses what makes a president great

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Feb 4, 2021

Historian UW-Green Bay Emeritus Prof. Harvey J. Kaye (Democracy and Justice Studies) explains how we should assess a president’s legacy and looks back at the presidencies of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt from the left. Listen to the podcast.

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Controversy Over Thin Blue Line Flag | Urban Milwaukee

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Feb 4, 2021

“Especially in the wake of the Jan. 6 riots and insurrection, that’s an important moment to say hold on, who’s really interested in law and order?” says Nolan Bennett, a political science professor at UW-Green Bay. “I don’t think that’s going to go away, the flag’s not going to go away and probably it will be…

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CAHSS Launches ‘No Reservations’ Speaker Series beginning Feb. 10

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Sue Bodilly

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Feb 3, 2021

UW-Green Bay’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences is filled with brilliant teachers, scholars, and creatives. The goal of the college is to provide an accessible forum for sharing bold, challenging, and even radical ideas. Scholars from across the college will do one talk each month on topics ranging from connecting through music to…

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Faculty note: Prof. Shelton talks to Washington Post about Chicago Teachers Union

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Jan 25, 2021

UW-Green Bay Prof. Jon Shelton (Democracy and Justice Studies), a labor historian, said that school districts and unions around the country are watching what is happening in Chicago. See his quote in the Washington Post on the Chicago Teachers Union. “The Chicago Teachers Union has established itself as probably the most militant teachers union in…

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Voyageur Magazine announces Winter/Spring 2021 issue

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Sue Bodilly

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Jan 25, 2021

Voyageur: Northeast Wisconsin’s Historical Review is pleased to announce the publication of its Winter/Spring 2021 issue, which features 10 articles. Now in its thirty-seventh year of publication, Voyageur is a collaboration between the Brown County Historical Society and the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Published twice a year since 1984, Voyageur is a nonprofit magazine dedicated…

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Assoc. Prof. Jon Shelton recently published in Jacobin magazine

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Dec 10, 2020

Associate Professor Jon Shelton (History) recently published the article, “The End of Public Schools Would Mean the End of the Common Good” in Jacobin online magazine. Shelton discusses the idea of looking at schools as institutions to educate kids to be citizens in a democracy with expectations for better lives instead of “human capital.” This site has…

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Teachers unions will have newfound influence in a Biden administration (Prof. Shelton quoted)

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Nov 23, 2020

“There’s going to be a lot of competing priorities and any sort of big, transformative education law that would create longer-lasting funding increases is probably not going to be forthcoming right away because most of the attention is going to go to the coronavirus,” said Jon Shelton, an associate professor of history at the University…

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Pro. Emeritus Harvey Kaye talks ‘Trumpism’ with Sky News

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Nov 16, 2020

Host Dermot Murnaghan was also joined by Sky’s Siobhan Robbins and Harvey J Kaye, Emeritus Professor of Democracy and Justice Studies at UW-Green Bay, in examining the rise of Trumpism, what it is and why it will live on. Source: No longer swinging but Trumpism will live on, Sky News

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Prof. Shelton is among experts who weigh-in on current job market trends

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Nov 16, 2020

“Given the change of course that has happened in the world, we wanted to provide expert opinions on what aspiring graduates can do to start off their careers in an uncertain economic climate. We wanted to know what skills will be more important, where the economy is doing relatively well, and if there will be…

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