Chris Pevey Harry is settling into his new role as assistant dean of precollege programs of Badger Precollege at the University of Wisconsin-Madison — and is inching closer to his goal of making the program available to every student in Wisconsin who’s interested in learning.
’We can’t have a strong state of Wisconsin without a strong UW-Madison campus,’ Badgers United board member says.
The university is not transparent about the disclosure of this information, according to UW Teaching Assistants’ Association Leader of Membership Coordination Rachel McClure. Unless they opt out, the data of university employees is shared with members of the public upon their request, McClure said.
Many 2020 grads stepped foot inside their alma mater for the last time in mid-March, with some attending online graduations and others like UW graduate Michelle Nguyen just trying to put school behind them altogether.
The Associated Students of Madison took a vote of no confidence in the University of Wisconsin Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration and passed legislation on workers’ rights, emergency housing and Student Health Insurance Plan aid restructuring at Tuesday’s meeting.
While most of UW-Madison’s traditional in-person degree programs have switched to an online format, nontraditional students will have more fully-online degree options starting in the Fall 2021 semester through UW-Madison Online.
At the University of Wisconsin – Madison, students are forced to take COVID tests every four days. If they don’t, they lose access to university buildings. Their testing catalogue is counted on the Safer Badgers App, which students are required to download and many believe is an invasion of privacy.
Wisconsin residents and UW alumni are teaming up to help rebuild UW-Madison following the pandemic.
UW-Madison is offering virtual tours, rather than in-person tours. Kirstin DeMartino, Director of Campus and Visitor Relations, said virtual tours via Zoom are available on a weekly basis.
UWPD, University Housing, Dean of Students Office and UHS begin partnership to enhance mental health services, crisis response protocols on campus.
’This is an important conversation to be having,’ SSFC representative says.
’For the administration, blocking this fund is not about policy compliance, it is about maintaining their power,’ Mitnick says.
If the referendum—crafted by ASM Chair Matthew Mitnick, 10 other representatives and chairs and the UW-Madison BIPOC Coalition— receives a vote of confirmation at Tuesday’s meeting, the general student body will be able to show their support for or against ASM’s COVID-19 Student Relief Fund when they head to the student government ballots in March.
UW-Madison students welcome Side Hustle Society as a student organization on campus during the spring semester. The organization aims to facilitate a community with forums for students to discuss their “side hustles” — or extracurricular hobbies and passions that earn additional income.
UW-Madison officials called it “inclement weather,” postponing all in-person activities at the Winter Carnival. “There are the dangers of exposed skin with frostbite,” Joe Webb, the director of Outdoor UW, said. “More or less it’s just not comfortable. These events are supposed to be fun.”
Ryan McDonagh isn’t just lacing up his skates this season. He’s also hitting the books.
The Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman is working on getting his bachelor’s degree in personal finance at the University of Wisconsin via online learning. He left Wisconsin in 2010 after his junior season, just 18 credits short of the finish line, and signed a contract with the New York Rangers.
Lightning defenseman Ryan McDonagh has found a way to make the most out of the new normal brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. He’s finishing his college degree.
McDonagh, who is 18 credits short of getting his personal finance degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is now taking online classes to put himself on a path to graduate.
Krista Nagel, a senior undergraduate at UW-Madison, said she thinks increased testing is a smart idea. However, Nagel said getting tested twice a week seems like “overkill,” and she feels that weekly testing would be sufficient.
Heller says that along with legal issues, there are also challenges concerning the income taxes that students who benefit from the relief policy would have to pay, along with employer payroll taxes and fringe costs that ASM would be responsible for.
The land, established as an outdoor laboratory to investigate the repair of damaged ecosystems in the 1930s, was added to the list last month.
In a novel initiative to address a series of challenges on Wisconsin campuses — projections of declining enrollment, recruiting and supporting students of color and the damage of COVID-19 — five universities are putting counselors in targeted high schools to help guide students to higher education.
Administrators opposed the legislation, saying it violates UW System Policy 820’s approved uses for segregated fees. The policy prohibits lump sum payments to student organizations or “direct financial aid” to individual students, except for certain situations including employee wages and scholarships or stipends to student government leaders.
The Associated Students of Madison unanimously passed legislation to create mask ambassador positions intended to aid students in receiving funds from segregated fees.
The Arboretum plays a large role in the Madison community for both students and the public.
UW-Madison has also seen an upgrade in surveillance with the Safer Badgers app for the 2021 Spring semester, but in an email statement Chancellor Rebecca Blank has promised, “the app does not track your current or location history in any way, on or off campus.” Instead, UW-Madison has offered Bluetooth exposure notifications that notify students in extended periods of contact with someone who tests positive for COVID-19. “Participation is optional but strongly encouraged,” said Blank in a Jan. 13 update.
The Associated Students of Madison (ASM) continued to fight for approval of their COVID-19 Student Relief Fund at an emergency meeting on Tuesday night. The student council voted unanimously to pass legislation creating the Mask Ambassador position — opening a possible loophole for the fund to be enacted despite university concerns over its legality.
UW said the designation is based on the Arboretum’s “pioneering work in restoration ecology, its place in the history of conservation, and its commitment to Aldo Leopold’s land ethic.”
UW-Madison says the Arboretum earned the designation for a “period of national significance” that stretches from the 1930s to the 1960s in which the first forest plantings were made and experiments were conducted to study the ecosystem.
The designation is based on the Arboretum’s work in restoration ecology, its place in the history of conservation, and its commitment to Aldo Leopold’s land ethic, UW-Madison said in a press release Tuesday.
The National Park Service has officially designated the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Arboretum as a National Historic Landmark. The arboretum gained landmark status last month when the park service named the 21 newest locations. In all there are over 2,600 national landmarks across the country, according to the NPS’ website.
In an interview with the Daily Cardinal, Thompson Center Executive Director Ryan Owens said the center “absolutely” stands by the methods and findings of the report. Owens, who is also a professor in the university’s Political Science department, argued that the survey results were consistent for questions on other, less vague beliefs like climate change denial.
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s police chief has banned officers from using “Thin Blue Line” imagery while on duty.
QLaw, a student organization that advocates for LGBTQ rights, claimed WLF supports transphobic policies and that the UW Law School should remove WLF from their interview program.
’I think that this budget is a great example budget to kind of show other people this is how you should be considering your F22 priorities,’ SSFC Representative says.
“We’re hopeful that these additional funds will have a positive impact on a student’s financial wellbeing and relieve some financial pressures caused by the global pandemic,” Office of Student Financial Aid Communications Manager Karla Weber told The Daily Cardinal.
A recently authorized federally-supported relief program, the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund II (HEERF II), will provide $9.9 million in funding to provide emergency grants to UW-Madison students.
The Universityof Wisconsin-Madison will provide a second round of federally-supported financial aid – totaling $9.9 million – to students impacted by the pandemic, according to a Monday release.
Quoted: “Think about it — our hospitals and clinics are near capacity because we have a heavy caseload of COVID right now,” said Mary Hayney, a pharmacy professor at UW-Madison.
“We need to find other people to … administer vaccines to the public. So students are a resource that can be tapped to do that because they have the skills and are ready to go,” she said.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department (UWMPD) is restricting officers from displaying “thin blue line” flag imagery while in uniform after the department received criticism for sharing a photo on Twitter that included the flag.
UW-Madison’s student government is battling with the school administration over a $2 million COVID relief fund.
’I am just concerned that UW legal is still going to have issues with that and it’s not going to happen,’ Reserve Board member says.
In an attempt to avoid legal challenges from the UW System, the ASM Reserve Board unanimously recommended an amendment to the COVID Student Relief Fund Friday morning, creating the position of “Mask Ambassador” pending the student council’s approval.
Two Madison 7-Elevens have been deemed safe by Madison police after reported bomb threats. About 3 p.m., police tweeted that nothing was located and both locations were safe.
In their first student council meeting of the year on Tuesday, the Associated Students of Madison (ASM) passed legislation to create a $2 million COVID-19 relief bill and a budget placeholder to fund a crisis response team, as well as a proposal to move towards updated grading policies for the spring semester.
The Wisconsin Union announced Monday that their Winter Carnival will return Feb. 3-7 with a combination of in-person and virtual events to follow COVID-19 safety protocols.
The Student Services Finance Committee heard a budget proposal Thursday night from the University of Wisconsin student-led radio station, WSUM.
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s police chief has banned officers from using “Thin Blue Line” imagery while on duty.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is once again pushing back the start date for enforcement of its Badger Badge building access restrictions.
The university pushed the building access restrictions back from Feb. 1 to Feb. 8. There will be Badger Wellness Ambassadors at building entrances that will ask if they can see peoples’ Badger Badges, but this is a “soft-launch” period.
“The administration can not deny that ASM is justified in attempting to pass this legislation,” UW student says.
’I was so cold that I just left and didn’t work out that day,’ UW student says.
Difficulties with scheduled appointments and rejected saliva tests have forced the university to delay enforcement of their testing requirements until the third week of the semester and also switch to drop-in only testing.
“President Thompson is and has been focused on strategies to combat COVID-19 on UW System campuses given their inherent congregate settings,” Mark Pitsch, spokesman for the UW System, said. “He has championed a culture of responsibility that includes wearing a mask, social distancing, hand washing and a robust testing strategy.”
Adeveloper specializing in big housing projects in college communities is offering its largest so far in Madison, an estimated $100 million-plus, 10-story structure fronting the 300 block of State Street with 481 units, retail space and parking that would raze most of a Downtown block that houses several prominent businesses.
The Associated Students of Madison voted unanimously on Tuesday, despite university opposition, to establish a $2 million pandemic relief fund for students, especially those ineligible to receive federal emergency aid.
As the United States nears another year of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Wisconsin reopens for a third semester impacted by the deadly virus. With over 6,000 dead in the State of Wisconsin since the start of the pandemic and two vaccines now available for select populations, eyes turn to the UW administration, its students and Dane County to see where this semester will go.
Wilkerson, author of Caste and The Warmth of Other Suns, is the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism. This event was hosted virtually by the Wisconsin Union Theater, UW-Madison Student Affairs and the Division of Diversity, Equity & Educational Achievement.
The proposed legislation, designed to assist UW-Madison students with rent and utilities payments amid the pandemic, allocates between $1.8 million and $4 million to the Madison-based nonprofit Tenant Resource Center (TRC), which would administer the relief fund.
UW released a statement on Friday announcing a collaboration between University Health Services (UHS), UWPD, University Housing and the Dean of Students Office to provide improved mental health services on campus and better handle mental health related emergencies. However, Mitnick believes that this plan is not comprehensive enough, and that the Crisis Response Team, outlined in the new ASM legislation, is the best way the UW can serve its students in times of mental health related emergencies.
University of Wisconsin System Interim President Tommy Thompson says Republican leaders in the state Legislature warned him not to include any tuition increases in his first budget request or it wouldn’t “go anywhere.”
