All but one University of Wisconsin System campus met a goal set earlier this year to offer at least 75% of classes in person this fall, UW System officials announced Tuesday.
Wisconsin Public Radio’s higher education reporter joins us to discuss how the state’s colleges and their student populations are adjusting to another school year during the pandemic. We touch on in-person classes, COVID-19 vaccination rates, on-campus testing and more.
Wisconsin’s longest-serving governor has been making plenty of headlines since taking on the job of interim president of the University of Wisconsin System.
Tommy Thompson said people may think he was “nuts” for water skiing at age 79, but the interim University of Wisconsin president said Tuesday he got on the skis earlier this month to “give it the old college try” before summer ends.
Despite COVID-19 cases increasing recently, the UW System has returned to pre-pandemic levels of in-person instruction for the fall semester, according to System President Tommy Thompson.
“Every student I talk to wants to be back in class, and that’s where they belong,” Thompson said. “There is so much enthusiasm on the campuses I’ve visited this fall. I thank the staff, faculty, and administrators for making that happen and meeting this goal while also prioritizing student and employee health and safety.”
A total of 85 percent of classes across the UW System are being offered in-person this fall, smashing interim System President Tommy Thompson’s goal of 75 percent, officials announced Tuesday.
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The reinstallations come as a task force works to erect a statue of Vel Phillips on the Capitol grounds. Phillips was the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin Law School, the first female judge in Milwaukee County and the first Black judge in Wisconsin. She died in 2018.
UWPD began a weeklong enforcement campaign Tuesday along University Avenue, one of the busiest streets on campus. Community officer Jake Lepper said the problem is focused in the block between the Charter and Mills Street intersections, where there is a lot of construction.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students caught illegally crossing the street could get warnings or fines.
The Chicago chapter of the Wisconsin Alumni Association had more than 200 tickets for a pregame event and the Badgers football game against Notre Dame at Soldier Field on Saturday. Emphasis on had. Those tickets were claimed in less than 24 hours and a waitlist of a few hundred people started.
“The idea psychedelics liberate some of these powerfully valent, deeper emotional areas of the brain—the limbic areas involved in memory and emotion—to have their say is consistent with what people are reporting,” says [Charles Raison, a psychiatrist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison], who also serves as director of clinical and translational research for Usona Institute, a nonprofit that is leading a clinical trial of psilocybin. “They are often overcome by these really, really powerful emotions that are surprising, as if they’re coming from the outside but yet seem completely credible and utterly believable. These areas are liberated and get their day in court.”
However, according to Judi Bartfeld, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Human Ecology, there were delays in rolling out P-EBT, which hurt many households who had to wait for support.“Food security really depends on consistency of access to food—and money to buy food—as many households don’t have reserves to fall back on when the flow of food or dollars is disrupted.”
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Dr. Gerald Pankratz, medical director for the UW Health Mobility and Falls Clinic, explained why the number of falls has soared. “The number of falls at home has increased during the pandemic, which could be due to people exercising less, an increase in alcohol consumption or people visiting health care providers less often about concerns that may contribute to a fall,” Dr. Pankratz said.
The reinstallations come as a task force works to erect a statue of Vel Phillips on the Capitol grounds. Phillips was the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin Law School, the first female judge in Milwaukee County and the first Black judge in Wisconsin.
