Commentary from Chancellor Debbie Ford: UW-Parkside's innovation evolution | Opinion
As UW-Parkside students, faculty and staff begin another semester, they do so with an eye on the future and furthering a campus-wide commitment to supporting the evolution of innovation in our region and beyond. Innovation is all around us. Yet innovation is nothing new. Brandon Hau talks about Parksideâs win. In 1873, Racine newspaper stories reported local physician and reverend Dr. James Carhart driving around town in a steam-powered vehicle. At a 1908 Paris automobile exposition, Dr. Carhart was called the father of automobiles. When Nash Motors was founded in 1916, few imagined that...