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
