The same day that the University of Wisconsin-Madison temporarily moved all classes online due to spikes in positive coronavirus tests, UW-Whitewater Interim Chancellor Greg Cook said he believes his campus isn’t far behind. Other UW campuses around the state are also seeing a growing presence of COVID-19 on campus.
Public health officials in Madison, one of communities that has seen a dramatic rise in case numbers, believe as many as 85 percent of recent cases are linked to University of Wisconsin-Madison. That campus is now temporarily suspending in-person learning for two weeks and having students in two dorms quarantine.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced Wednesday night that all in-person classes will be paused through Sept. 25 due to a growing number of positive COVID-19 test results.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is directing all undergraduate students to restrict their movements for the next two weeks in an attempt to reverse the rise in Covid-19 cases.
Cases have spiked in Dane County as the University of Wisconsin-Madison resumes in-person instruction. On Thursday, the county reported 456 new cases of COVID-19, shattering the previous single-day record and accounting for nearly one-third of all new coronavirus cases reported statewide.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Big Ten school, announced Wednesday it is shifting to two weeks of remote instruction and quarantining all residents in residence halls due to an increase in positive test results.
I received a truly great graduate education, earning my doctorate in 1985 at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, an institution I’d put up against any other I could have attended, public or private.
