As COVID cases continue to overwhelm our hospitals, UW System Interim President Tommy Thompson said, “We have a terrible situation in Wisconsin.”
UW System offers tuition break for nursing students’ help in hospitals, nursing homes
WISC-TV 3
December 1, 2020
Higher Education/System
Campus life
Judge dismisses Title IX lawsuit against UW precollege summer university program
Badger Herald
’We remain committed to supporting survivors and to responding promptly and fairly to allegations of sexual misconduct,’ UW spokeswoman says.
UW-Madison takes part in GivingTuesday
Daily Cardinal
GivingTuesday, a self proclaimed holiday that falls every year on the Tuesday after the shopping mania of “Black Friday” and “Cyber Monday,” encourages people to donate to charitable causes. This year, UW-Madison has made it easy for Badgers to “do good” and refocus their efforts on their community.
UW Black student journalists frustrated, disappointed after meeting with Blank
The Capital Times
Following an interview with Chancellor Rebecca Blank last month, Black student journalists published a piece expressing dissatisfaction with her response to the concerns of Black students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Students seek pass-fail options again for fall in light of COVID-19
Inside Higher Education
The University of Wisconsin at Madison is resisting general pass-fail requests from student groups.
Agriculture
25 Reasons to Support Civil Eats on #GivingTuesday
Civil Eats
25. Grassland 2.0 Aims to Replace Soy and Corn Farming with Perennial Pasture in the Upper MidwestThe University of Wisconsin-Madison project will help farmers transition to pasture-based systems to protect the environment and boost rural livelihoods while meeting demand for grassfed meat and dairy.
Community
Share Your Holidays’ Celebration Drive-Thru Food Drive welcomes UW celebrities
NBC-15
As drivers pull through to drop off their donations, some of big names in University of Wisconsin sports history will be on hand to greet them as they pull through. Current players aren’t able to attend because of COVID-19 restrictions.
Health
Holiday air travel surges despite dire health warnings
AP
Previous holidays including Memorial Day, July 4 and Labor Day were followed by increases in new cases. David O’Connor, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin who has studied the role of travel in the pandemic, expects the same thing to happen after Thanksgiving and leading up to Christmas.
For First Time In Months, Wisconsin’s COVID-19 Cases Are Declining. Experts Say It May Not Last.
Wisconsin Public Radio
That’s what Ajay Sethi is expecting. The epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health said the data in the next two weeks will likely tell us where Wisconsin will stand a month from now. He isn’t optimistic.
Opinion
Column: The danger of the status quo: How Wisconsin institutions maintain white supremacy
Badger Herald
UW’s messaging may support BIPOC, but actions embrace white-centric status quo.
UW Experts in the News
Trump Repeats Baseless, False Claims About the Election
FactCheck.org
When asked to comment on similar claims about “Biden-only” voting in Georgia, Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told us it is not possible to know how many Georgians voted for Biden and no other candidate. That “would require individual-level information from ballots, not aggregation information about ballots cast in each race,” he said.
Covid Vaccine Legality: Will you be required to take it?
NBC-15
Alta Charo is a law and bioethics professor at UW-Madison. She said a vaccine mandate at the federal level is unlikely because it would be challenged in courts. Charo explained there’s more public health power at the state level.
Thanksgiving will lead to increase in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, UW expert says
Badger Herald
Associate Professor Ajay Sethi, an expert on infectious disease epidemiology, said in an email to The Badger Herald that students should space out their COVID-19 tests.