Legislation introduced by the Associated Students of Madison (ASM) will raise future student council member wages to $12 per hour if passed. Currently, ASM bylaws mandate minimum hourly wages of $10.50 for student-held positions. Governance body members address wage increases as a necessary step to improve working conditions and housing affordability.
Tuesday, Feb. 1 marked the first day of the Lunar New Year and the start of the Year of the Water Tiger. The 15-day festival is celebrated by many Asian communities around the world.
Discolored tap water found in University of Wisconsin-Madison residence halls and in off-campus housing may be the result of a nearby water main leak, according to the city of Madison’s Water Utility department reported a discoloration of tap water supplied by the Madison Water Utility Wednesday afternoon.
As members of campus community clash with administrators over return to classes, university sticks to original mitigation plan to press on in person.
Events to include movies, visit from Ruth E. Carter.
UW-Madison opened its gleaming nine-story Chemistry Tower to students this semester after months of construction delays. The new building at 1101 University Ave. will ease enrollment bottlenecks that have plagued the department for decades.
“The university tries to represent and show its diversity. In the end, it doesn’t come out because there is not a lot of diversity on this campus,” Adegoke said. “In my opinion, it doesn’t really show because I’m usually the only Black person in (a) class.”
As UW implements promising forensic nurse program, students, campus advocates say adequate support for survivors still requires more institutional resources.
Multiple events at UW-Madison listed.
For nearly a year, Henry Obeng, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has created artwork using artificial intelligence alongside computer science student Sheriff Issaka.
Students on committee, in audience voiced their opinions in final public listening session.
So far, UW has not considered a threshold for COVID-19 cases that would make it pivot to online instruction, McGlone said. In addition, UHS is confident the university will operate in person throughout the spring semester, according to Baggott.
WSUM proposes budget of $15,995.50 more than previous year.
Jeb Barzen founded and is the sole employee of Private Lands LLC, which explores methods of ecological restoration on privately-owned lands, and is an adjunct professor at UW-Madison.
Nearly 9,000 antigen tests in residence halls and up to 1,000 tests daily at Memorial Union and Union South have been distributed across campus from Jan. 18 to Jan. 24, according to university spokesperson Meredith McGlone.
Events will take place at Memorial Union Feb. 7-12 and at Alumni Park on Feb. 12.
They’re busy little bots delivering hundreds and hundreds of food orders every day, and that number has skyrocketed since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
In their Wednesday night meeting, the Associated Students of Madison passed an amendment that would increase the minimum wage for General Student Services Fund organizations and ASM from $10.50 to $12.00 an hour.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, a historian, professor and award-winning journalist, did not intend for her keynote speech at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to send a hopeful message. “If you came here to get uplifted and inspired: wrong speech,” she told the audience virtually and in person Tuesday for the MLK Symposium at Memorial Union. UW-Madison hosted the event in honor of the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Hannah-Jones said education on King has been whitewashed, and in reality, he was “not so kumbaya” as most were taught to believe. At the time of his death, most Americans held an unfavorable view of King.
Two University of Wisconsin alumni held an online discussion Tuesday evening on the importance of knowing Black history when being an ally of the Black community.
’This is the time of year when the people who don’t align with Dr. King’s values like to try out his name,’ creator of The 1619 Project Nikole Hannah-Jones said
In-person instruction has remained central to UW-Madison’s protocol, according to university spokesperson Meredith McGlone. The university has held that this is due largely to the fact that vaccines and boosters greatly decrease the risk of severe illness.
Hannah-Jones prefaced her words at the event with a qualifier: “If you came here to be uplifted, wrong speech.” This is perhaps inherent in work like hers, which forces readers to confront difficult, uncomfortable and, at times, unbelievably cruel parts of the United States’ collective national history.
As students at UW-Madison head back to in-person instruction this spring, not all are happy about returning to the classroom. “I’m scared, I’m nervous,” said Adrian George, teaching assistant and co-president of the Teaching Assistant Association (TAA).
Every student was asked to get tested for COVID-19 before coming back to class. Results didn’t need to be reported unless they are living in a dorm and get a positive result. Exceptions for testing were made for those who had a positive PCR test within 90 days of returning to campus.
Several student-led organizations, including the Associated Students of Madison (ASM), the Teaching Assistants Association (TAA) and the BIPOC Coalition of UW-Madison, gathered outside of Chancellor Becky Blank’s office Monday to demand a switch to remote instruction during the first two weeks of the spring semester.
The Associated Students of Madison proposed “stronger COVID-19 precautions at UW-Madison,” including an option for hybrid learning.
The UW-Madison senior from Lancaster set out to read 365 books in 2021. Vaughan says she set this goal after she noticed her reading had increased significantly during the pandemic. In 2020, she read 276 books. “I wanted to challenge myself to do one book a day,” said Vaughan.
Jake Baggott, executive director of University Health Services at UW-Madison, describes campus preparations for students starting the spring 2022 semester as COVID-19’s omicron surge continues.
Here’s what guests on the Jan. 21, 2022 episode had to say about returning UW-Madison students in the midst of the Omicron surge, whether it has yet to peak in Wisconsin, medical ethics involved in treating COVID-19 patients and why the state figures so prominently in the national politics of election practices.
A University of Wisconsin fan was removed from a basketball game at Northwestern University this week after he made anti-Asian racist gestures at a crowd of Northwestern fans.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison has barred a fan from ever again buying tickets to an athletic event for his conduct at a basketball game at Northwestern University.
The Midwest Climate Collaborative is a network of universities, local governments and other organizations working to develop “a coherent Midwestern response” to climate change through research, public communication and policy.
UW-Madison provost John Karl Scholz told a faculty committee earlier this month that classrooms have been safe throughout the pandemic. With students returning to Madison regardless of whether classes are in person or online, he said UW leaders and public health experts they consulted with “don’t believe a period of remote instruction would appreciably decrease the predicted spread of Covid in the weeks ahead.”
In a panel for employees on Friday, moderated by director of strategic communications Marlena Holden, university leaders answered questions from the public on topics ranging from COVID-19 accommodations to testing policies.
A University of Wisconsin fan who made a racist gesture directed at Asian-American fans during the UW men’s basketball game against Northwestern on Tuesday has been banned from UW athletic events going forward.
The website includes details about the timeline of the search, details about the Search and Screen Committee and a brief about the position itself.
The University of Wisconsin — Madison has indicated COVID vaccinations are required for any “student hourly employees” regardless of one’s remote status, and Prince George’s Community College in Maryland confirmed to TND that regardless of learning modality – in-person, hybrid, online – all students and faculty are required to show proof of vaccination.
My father, Henry, from Kauai, Hawaii, and my mother, Thordis, from the West Side of Chicago, met at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, at the popular cafeteria in the student union. My father, just back from Europe, where he served in World War II, came in with his buddies. He saw my mother sitting with her friends. Walking over to her, he said, “Stand up, and if you’re not taller than I am, I’ll take you to a movie.” She stood; she was a half-inch taller. They went to the movie anyway, and that’s how I came to be.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times Magazine and creator of The 1619 Project that has incensed some conservatives, will speak on the UW-Madison campus next week.
The three largest University of Wisconsin System campuses are reporting spikes in positive cases of COVID-19 weeks before the start of spring semester classes. While some of the state’s smaller, private colleges push start dates back, UW campuses say they’re starting on time and in-person.
A bill aimed at punishing colleges and universities for violating free speech and academic freedom rules set by Republicans has passed a legislative committee by a party-line vote. This comes after a GOP author amended the legislation to remove provisions that were potentially unconstitutional.
UW-Madison announced Thursday that they are expecting all students who have not had a positive PCR test in the last 90 days to get tested before coming to campus. However, the announcement does not state that students need to report their tests or results.
The university is strongly encouraging all students to get COVID-19 booster vaccines as soon as possible. It also encourages students who are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms to delay their return to campus, recovering instead at their current location.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank told a faculty committee during a Monday meeting that she didn’t know what percentage of the campus community is boosted beyond those who received it at University Health Services. The university will be encouraging students and staff to report if they have been boosted off-campus to get a better picture of booster status across UW-Madison.
Staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison want a chancellor with a diverse background who understands the importance of all those who work on campus, rather than one who values only faculty and students.
The pandemic’s negative impact on enrollment was not ubiquitous, however. Enrollments at elite universities, such as Harvard and Stanford, held steady during the height of the pandemic. Several of the more-prestigious state flagship campuses, such as the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, recorded record freshman-class enrollments. Amid the adversity caused by the pandemic, in that sense, the rich simply got richer.
The results can’t be considered shocking: Ticket usage was down 8% for the season compared to 2019, and three of the seven games were among the 10 smallest crowds since 2006, when data for ticket scans started being tracked.
UW-Madison has also plans to provide and distribute free high quality surgical grade masks to students who want them during the spring semester.
UHS also adding more COVID-19 vaccine appointments.
Coupled with free antigen tests, UW will open one PCR testing site — down from four last semester.
Some private colleges and universities in Wisconsin are delaying the start of spring semester classes, requiring negative COVID-19 tests or vaccinations and boosters for students and employees amid a rapid surge of new COVID-19 infections. At the same time, the University of Wisconsin System says students “will return on-time and as normal” for classes starting this month.
The university announced on Thursday upcoming dates for a series of listening sessions that will take place throughout January, hosted by a 21-person search committee of Regent members, community representatives, administrators, students and faculty.
The committee leading the search for the new University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor is holding listening sessions for the UW-Madison community this month.
UW–Madison professor emerita and Madison365 contributor Gloria Ladson-Billings is the nation’s second-most influential scholar in education, according to the annual Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings, which spotlight top education scholars across the nation “who move ideas from academic journals into the national conversation,” according to an announcement from the School of Education.
The latest COVID-19 wave has hit the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program.
UW officials announced that the Badgers’ game set for Thursday night against George Mason has been canceled because of positive COVID-19 tests in the UW program.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Chris McIntosh has tested positive for COVID-19 and will not travel to Las Vegas for UW’s bowl game.
McIntosh must quarantine for 10 days.
“I would encourage everyone to follow the advice of medical professionals and get vaccinated, boosted, tested and wear a mask,” McIntosh said. “Those mitigation measures may not keep us from contracting COVID, but there’s a good chance they will keep us from having a severe outcome.”
The latest COVID-19 wave that is sweeping across the University of Wisconsin campus has affected the UW football team.
Multiple sources close to the program told the Journal Sentinel Saturday both players and staffers tested positive in recent days and that the Badgers would be short-handed when they face Arizona State Thursday in the Las Vegas Bowl.
About 1,000 University of Wisconsin students working on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic will be eligible for a new tuition incentive.
