This monograph reviews the role of women in the development of public higher education at the University of Wisconsin with special focus on the period of the 1970s. Essays are presented in the categories of the politicization of women, curriculum, language, athletics, lifestyle, and the re-entry woman. Essays include: "The Women's Movement and the University" (Bonnie Cook Freeman); "History of the Association of Faculty Women at Madison" (Ruth Bleier); "A History of the Wisconsin Coordinating Council of Women in Higher Education" (Jacqueline Macaulay); "Committee on the Status of Women at Milwaukee" (Jane Crisler); "Graduate Women Assess the Campus: A Case in Point about Sexism" (Jane Van Dyk); "A Women's Studies Plan for Wisconsin" (Karen Merritt); "The Women's Studies Program--Milwaukee" (Rachel I. Skalitzky); "Sedition in a Sexist Society: The Platteville Paradigm" (Barbara Parsons); "Chair, Chairman, Chairperson" (Carolyn Sylvander); "Women's Athletics at Madison and Title IX" (Kit Saunders); "Merging Two Careers and Marriage" (Agate Krouse and Harry Krouse); "We Have Hired Couples for Years" (Nancy Newell Moore); "The President's Wife: A Changing Role--Observations of a Chancellor's Wife" (Judith T. Guskin); "Child Care and the University" (Irene Kiefer); "Continuing Education: A Personal View" (Kathryn F. Clarenbach); "An E.B. Fred Fellow" (Fannie Hicklin); "Continuing Education Services in the UW System" (Peg Geisler); "Meeting the Needs of Re-entering Students: Developing a Course at Stevens Point" (Isabelle Stelmahoske); "A Remarkable Woman: Grace Pilgrim Bloom (1886-1978)" (JoAnn Hinz); "From Undergraduate to Judge at Sixty" (Betty D. Brown). Some essays contain references. (JDD)