University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced Tuesday that the campus will stay online for the rest of the spring semester, including finals.
UW-Madison announced Tuesday that instruction and exams would remain online through the end of the spring semester, another aggressive step by Wisconsin’s largest university to stem the spread of COVID-19.
As University of Wisconsin-Madison students left town for spring break last week, they expected to be gone for a bit longer than usual to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. But on Tuesday, they were forced to quickly come to terms with a new announcement: there will be no more in-person instruction this spring.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced the university would move to “alternate delivery” from March 23 through the remainder of the spring semester and seek to further reduce those working on campus to those providing “essential services.”
The university will shift to alternate delivery of courses from March 23 through the end of the spring semester, including final exams.
The policy creates an 80-hour leave bank for employees when ordered not to work due to COVID-19 and can’t perform responsibilities remotely.
Students who live in the residence halls and cannot return to a permanent address or access online classes away from campus will be allowed to stay in the residence halls, the release said. Limited dining services will be in place for those students.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will continue “alternative instruction” for the rest of the semester, including final exams, according to an email sent to all students and staff Tuesday.
Students asked not to return to Madison if possible after break.
Less than a week after UW-Madison decided to move all classes online until April 10 to contain the spread of COVID-19, the university extended its original edict Tuesday through the remainder of the semester.
Quoted: Dr. Patrick Remington, the director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Preventive Medicine Residency Program, said many people who work in the service industry are now “basically unemployed.”
When the microphones came on at La Movida radio station on Monday afternoon, Dr. Patricia Tellez-Giron was ready. The much-beloved Madison doctor and University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor was in the studio for a radio special all about the coronavirus, organized by Madison’s popular Spanish-language station and the Latino Health Council, which Tellez-Giron co-chairs.
Quoted: Wisconsin Public Radio and Wisconsin Watch compiled your questions and sought answers from Dr. Dawn Davis. She is director of the Comprehensive Diabetes Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and section chief for Endocrinology at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital in Madison.
Quoted: “Looking at health in older adults with autism can tell us something about the result of a lifetime of the lived experience of being autistic, of the discrimination that comes with being autistic,” says Lauren Bishop, assistant professor of social work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
UW Health, SSM Health and UnityPoint Health-Meriter said they are reaching out to patients to postpone many non-urgent surgeries and procedures.
Hospital staff are still urging patients to call ahead.
The outbreak could cut the country’s annual gross-domestic-product growth by half, said Ian Coxhead, an economist who studies Asian economies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But he cautioned that making such projections is difficult.
Quoted: Young Mie Kim, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison created the recent report. She found that Russia-linked social media accounts were posting about many of the same issues as during the 2016 elections. These include race relations, gun laws and immigration. Facebook has since removed those accounts, too.
Quoted: Dr. Marcia Slattery is a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry and pediatrics at UW Health. She says talking to your kids about the coronavirus starts with listening.
Quoted: “We need to really buckle down on the ideas that we’ve talked about the last couple of days,” Dr. Jeffrey Pothof, at UW Health, said. “The most important being social distancing, this idea that we’re going to try to stay six feet away from anyone else.”
A professor of cello, he played professionally in the Pro Arte Quartet for 25 years at the University of Wisconsin School of Music. He served as the Associate Director of the School of Music after he left the quartet.
Pat Hanrahan was a young biophysics student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1980s when he decided to give up his work with microscopic insects and join a small group of computer scientists in their quest to make a movie.
