Good morning.
Wednesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 75. Sunrise is 6:29 and sunset is 7:13, for 12 hours, 43 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 89.6 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1607, Edward Maria Wingfield is ousted as first president of the governing council of the Colony of Virginia; he is replaced by John Ratcliffe.
The early enrollment numbers from Universities of Wisconsin schools show an increase over last year in enrollment at UW-Whitewater and several other schools:
The preliminary headcount enrollment for fall 2025 is:
- UW-Eau Claire: 9,498
- UW-Green Bay: 11,500
- UW-La Crosse: 10,627
- UW-Madison: 51,550
- UW-Milwaukee: 22,613
- UW-Oshkosh: 12,457
- UW-Parkside: 3,895
- UW-Platteville: 6,406
- UW-River Falls: 5,275
- UW-Stevens Point: 8,538
- UW-Stout: 7,047
- UW-Superior: 2,859
- UW-Whitewater: 12,075
- Total: 164,340
The total for UW-Whitewater, including both the main campus and Rock County, represents an increase of about three percent over 2024’s final fall enrollment numbers.
More students mean more opportunity. They represent potential and potentialities; not certainties, only possibilities, for themselves and us. What the Whitewater community makes of these additional students depends on how they and we interact. In the last decade, the 2010s, Whitewater saw a university leadership inadequate to its students and faculty. (See categories 1 and 2.) No amount of rationalization then or since changes that decade’s series of mistakes and misconduct. This libertarian blogger was right then and remains right now.
We are past that time, and one should be grateful (I know that I am) that we are.
What we make of this opportunity — whether we achieve some or all of what we can — still lies ahead.
Scientists can now map spots on distant stars using orbiting exoplanets: