Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the university's service to democracy / Chad Alan Goldberg
  • John Bascom and the Wisconsin Idea: legacy and prospects / J. David Hoeveler
  • Accuracy always: Willard Bleyer and the push for better journalism / Caitlin Cieslik-Miskimen
  • "No mute, inglorious Milton": the arts and the Wisconsin Idea / Maryo Gard Ewell
  • The crucible of conservation: land, science, community, and the Wisconsin Idea / Curt Meine
  • Wisconsin academics outing LGBT policies / R. Richard Wagner
  • Then and now: taking the Wisconsin Idea to the State Capitol / Karen Bogenschneider
  • The power to change lives: The UW Odyssey Project / Emily Auerbach
  • Preserving the "public household": the Wisconsin Idea and the 2011 protests / Jane L. Collins
  • Laboratory of oligarchy / Lewis A. Friedland
  • The turn away from government and the need to revive the civic purpose of higher education / Katherine J. Cramer
  • Afterword / Gwen Drury.