University of Wisconsin-Madison students will now have the option to finish their spring semester courses pass/fail, according to an email from Provost Karl Scholz on Thursday.
UW-Madison students can skip the letter grades this semester, one of several recently announced measures by the university to offer flexibility during the pandemic.
Over 400 people tuned into a virtual town hall Thursday to hear University of Wisconsin-Madison administrators discuss responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, most notably a recent rise in hate and racist incidents.
The University of Wisconsin System is estimating its campuses will pay back nearly $80 million to students who left campuses as the coronavirus took hold in the state.
The search committee tasked with identifying University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross’ successor previously proposed a timeline that included semifinalist interviews in April, announcement of finalists in early May and approval of the new president by the UW Board of Regents in mid- to late May. Cross plans to stay on until the new leader starts.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Lowell Center opened Thursday morning as an isolation facility for people who have tested positive for COVID-19, following a request from the state’s Emergency Operations Center.
Racist, anti-Chinese graffiti appeared on UW-Madison’s campus earlier this week, the latest in an increasing number of university incidents spilling out on sidewalks and social media.
Assistant Director for Bias Response in the DoSO, Jenna Friedman, said the office received a total of 25 bias incident reports Tuesday evening and throughout the day Wednesday about racist chalk graffiti outside near George L. Mosse Humanities Building and the Walgreens on the corner of State and Lake St.
Provost Karl Scholz announced in an email a special Pass/Fail (P/F) grading option for students during the Spring 2020 semester.
Other candidates include Nada Elmikashfi, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student, and Aisha Moe, a recent UW-Madison graduate.
Letter to the editor from Lisa Reisig Ferrazzano, a linguist, writer and Italian instructor at UW Continuing Studies. She is a mother of three and the wife of a pediatric intensive care doctor at American Family Children’s Hospital in Madison.
UW-Madison School of Pharmacy is stepping in to produce hand sanitizers for UW Health.
UW Health is considering using the vacant rooms as potential hospital overflow rooms. Brendon Dybdahl, the marketing and communications director of UW Housing, said the residence halls are being considered because of the variety of rooms, the number and the location downtown.
UW Health has been getting questions from individuals and businesses asking how they can help the hospital fight COVID-19. In other news, UW Health and the UW School of Pharmacy are teaming up to manufacture hand sanitizer for the hospital.
But surveillance architectures created in haste could prove difficult to dismantle with anything like the same speed. Pro-privacy groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation and STOP are already warning that the infrastructure of tools like facial recognition may not be dismantled. In all likelihood, the status quo has now changed forever — and the improvised solutions of today will inevitably shape the surveillance regimes of tomorrow.
Ben Power is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
With students, professors scrambling to adjust to new form of teaching, traditional standardized midterms must be changed to fit new situation.
Quoted: In the new-world realities brought on by COVID-19, the disease spread from the new coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2, early childhood specialist Lorena Mancilla urges parents and guardians to be kind to themselves while figuring out what works.
“Children need regulated, healthy parents more than anything else during this period of social distancing and shelter-in-place orders,” she said. “Life happens. Schedules may not work. It’s okay. Do what you can to keep your children safe.”
Quoted: “What we’re facing is unprecedented, and I don’t want to downplay its seriousness, but it’s not the worst-case scenario,” said Malia Jones, a researcher who studies infectious diseases at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
