The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is suspending in-person classes at its Marinette campus starting in the fall of 2024.
UW-Green Bay will suspend in-person classes at Marinette campus
Spectrum News
January 23, 2024
Higher Education/System
UW-Green Bay ending in-person classes in Marinette County
Wisconsin Public Radio
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay will suspend in-person classes at its Marinette County campus when the spring semester ends.
Chancellor Mike Alexander said the Marinette Campus will not close, but will move fully online in fall.
UW-Whitewater condemns antisemitic incident on campus
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Whitewater’s chancellor is condemning an incident Sunday night during which a small group of people projected Nazi and antisemitic imagery on the side of a residence hall and chanted white supremacist slogans.
Swastika projected on UW-Whitewater dorm
Wisconsin Public Radio
A swastika was projected on the outside of University of Wisconsin-Whitewater dorm Sunday night by a group of people chanting racist remarks, according to Chancellor Corey King.
Group displays swastika, chants racism outside of University of Wisconsin-Whitewater dorm
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A group of people, not affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, displayed a swastika and chanted racist words outside of a campus dorm Sunday night, chancellor Corey King said.
UW-Whitewater chancellor, others speak out against racist display on campus
WKOW – Channel 27
King asked everyone to reaffirm their commitment to UW-Whitewater’s core values and not let “the actions of an outside group that seeks to incite hate, division and fear take us off course.”
Small group chants racist slogans, projects swastika on UW-Whitewater campus
Madison365
Video of the event emerged on social media late Sunday, and UW-Whitewater Chancellor Corey King acknowledged it in a letter to the campus community Monday.
Cybercriminals stole thousands of UW records, but system leaders didn’t tell the public. Why?
Daily Cardinal
Over 160,000 University of Wisconsin System records, some containing personal information, were stolen during a May cyberattack against the National Student Clearinghouse by a Russia-based cybercriminal organization.
Campus life
Oscillators, resonators, & tape @ UW-Madison
WORT-FM
An exhibit in the main floor of UW-Madison’s Memorial Library seeks to showcase pivotal moments in the history of experimental and electronic music. Many of those pivotal moments are available to play (and available to check out) in Memorial’s basement, amidst the vast musical collection of the Mills Music Library.
Business/Technology
Housing discrimination, Report on Uvalde shooting, Sports betting
Wisconsin Public Radio
Sports betting is now legal in 38 states. We talk about why the sports gambling industry is booming and how it’s affecting sports leagues themselves with Jason Kido Lopez, an assistant professor in media and cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW Experts in the News
Why did Wisconsin lakes take so long to freeze this winter?
Wisconsin Public Radio
Steve Vavrus is a senior scientist at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. On Jan. 17, he joined WPR’s “The Morning Show” to explain the causes of lakes freezing later.
Madison could again allow streets to be named after people in proposed policy
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison linguistics expert Dan Pell said Madison’s street names, many of which honor white historical figures, do not always project the progressive values city government has sought to establish.
“If you turn the (street) names into faces, it would be really obvious that there is white privilege baked in,” Pell said. “I think it’s important that we rethink how we represent history and how we project who writes history.”
UW-Madison Related
UW- Madison hit with civil rights complaint over scholarship program for BIPOC students
Channel 3000
The Equal Protection Project, an anti-Affirmative action group, filed the complaint with the U.S. Department of Education. The group, founded by Cornell Law School professor William Jacobson, claims UW’s Community-Engaged BIPOC Fellows program engages in discrimination on the basis of race, color and national origin.
Conservative group files civil rights complaint against UW, alleging discrimination against white students in fellowship program
Madison365
The Equal Protection Project (EPP), a project of the right-wing Legal Insurrection Foundation, has filed a complaint with the federal Department of Education’s Office of Civil Right against the University of Wisconsin-Madison, alleging that the BIPOC Fellowship program run by the Morgridge Center for Public Service is illegal because it discriminates against white students.