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University of Wisconsin System campuses are wrapping up their first full semester amid the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s been anything but normal, and for some first-year students, finding a sense of community on campus has been hampered by heavy restrictions on social gatherings. Mental health experts say that isolation is a problem and has contributed to a myriad of anxieties faced by students.

The university is processing a State Journal public records request submitted Nov. 30 for documents related to Yaeger’s employment and termination. The process typically takes at least a few weeks because state law requires subjects of the records to be notified of the request and given a chance to sue in an attempt to block release of the records.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Discussion Project, started in 2017 to help instructors improve the quality of their classroom discussions, has trained nearly 150 participants since pivoting to virtual learning during the pandemic.

UW-Madison’s students will be more closely monitored next semester.A mobile app called “Safer Badgers” will be students’ and employees’ “key to campus,” representing a “significant change from the fall semester,” Chancellor Rebecca Blank wrote in a Friday email.

Honorlock and other software systems with names like Proctorio, ExamSoft and ProctorU rely on artificial intelligence, facial detection software, browser lockdown tools and eye-tracking technology to flag behaviors that could indicate students are cheating on their exams.

The University of Wisconsin winter commencement ceremony was virtual this year because of the pandemic.The university recognized graduates in a pre-recorded video that aired online Sunday morning.

For students at the University of Wisconsin, the plan for the way breaks are handled are changed drastically for the 2020 holiday season. Students living on campus who went home for Thanksgiving stayed home, finishing the fall semester virtually, returning to the campus for the spring semester.

Although he said the excitement surrounding graduation is not the same this year due to the pandemic, he doesn’t really see that as a bad thing: “I think that it just reminds me that the world needs people that are ready to take on serious issues so, me having a weekend of excitement might have pushed me to reminisce a little more than I should,” said Weigel.

Lavelle shared several life lessons with the graduates and spoke about her time at UW-Madison, which she referred to as the “greatest university to ever grace this planet.”

’It’s the moment that we execute under pressure that’s often remembered the most, but it is the culmination of everything that led to that moment that means the most,’ USWNT player Lavelle says

In an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19 during the spring semester, UW-Madison will greatly expand its mandatory testing regime, require proof of up-to-date negative tests and call on students to restrict their movement upon returning to the Madison area, the university announced Friday.