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.
South Asian organizations explain students’ connections to Punjab, how issue impacts all UW students.
In a letter to UW-Madison leadership, the Teaching Assistants’ Association (TAA) called on the university to provide serious financial relief for students, citing university policy concerning segregated fees and international student fees, as well as the current telecommuting policy affecting international student workers, as crises that “mark the difference between eating and going hungry” for some.
On Oct. 26, Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced a projected budget shortfall of $320 million through June of 2021, due to lost revenues and increased expenses from the pandemic. UW says some of that shortfall has been addressed through cost-saving measures, including a first round of unpaid furloughs for employees that ran from May 15 through Oct. 31, 2020.
Thousands of University of Wisconsin-Madison students will receive their degrees this weekend. Unfortunately, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic means they will not be able to celebrate in a traditional fashion.
UW to allow ASM reps to be paid for international work, ASM reps express disappointment after UW Dean leaves meeting early.
In its final meeting of the semester, the Associated Students of Madison (ASM) approved legislation Tuesday night supporting international telecommuters and calling for a Pass/Fail and Satisfactory Disruption/Non-Satisfactory Disruption option for the Fall 2020 semester.
UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC) Professor Michael Wagner focused specifically on a “pre-election” swing state and democratic agenda survey conducted by the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal (CCCR), an SJMC research group dedicated “to understand[ing] the communication ecology and political culture in Wisconsin over the last decade.”
Alpha Chi Sigma, a professional chemistry fraternity at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is appealing the city Plan Commission’s decision to quash plans to demolish two houses on North Lake Street and replace them with a new building that would house both the fraternity several apartments for rent.
’This [policy] is specifically targeted towards students who are currently on international soil — the vast majority being international students,’ ASM Chair says
The Student Services Finance Committee met Monday to introduce their internal budget and approve Student Judiciary’s FY22 budget. SSFC was also going to vote on the Student Activities Center Governing Board budget but voted to push the decision to next week.
The Students Learn Students Vote (SLSV) Coalition hosted a virtual awards ceremony Friday awarding UW-Madison “for exemplifying the SLSV Coalition’s Guiding Principle of Removing Barriers and Increasing Access.” The award title is shared with Alabama A&M University, an institution also recognized for its removal of barriers impacting voter suppression.
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s children’s hospital was the site of the first bone marrow transplant in 1968. Twenty alumni have won a Nobel prize. Novelist Joyce Carol Oates, progressive politician Robert M. La Follette, and architect Frank Lloyd Wright are among the school’s alumni.
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.
For University of Wisconsin-Madison senior Joel Baraka, there was one question that always lingered in the back of his mind: What can I do today to improve the life of another child?
Bars played a critical role in University of Wisconsin-Madison’s coronavirus outbreak this fall, a researcher from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found.
Shortly after trips to a cluster of bars near Witte and Sellery residence halls spiked in early September, the two dorms saw large outbreaks of COVID-19, MIT economics professor and physician Jeffrey Harris found in a recent study.
According to an email from Human Resource officials at the university, officials were unaware of student workers telecommuting from outside the country until recently and will pay students for any hours already logged — though they did not specify when. However, per a decision made by university HR in early July, students telecommuting from outside the country will not be able to hold hourly positions going forward.
Survey results show an even split between University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduate students’ preferences for how they are taught during the COVID-19 pandemic. Graduate students were more averse to in-person activities and cited reduced access to physical resources, spaces and research as the biggest barriers to academic progress this year.
Students were selected for the task force by an application process. Several positions on the committee were held for people that represented different student groups — such as first-year students, international students and house fellows.
As a relatively new group on campus, BIPOC Coalition co-founder Tarah Stangler said the organization is trying to gauge what students would like to see the group accomplish in upcoming semesters.
Council also passed resolution asking UW to decriminalize marijuana possession on campus to match Madison laws.
’We remain committed to supporting survivors and to responding promptly and fairly to allegations of sexual misconduct,’ UW spokeswoman says.
GivingTuesday, a self proclaimed holiday that falls every year on the Tuesday after the shopping mania of “Black Friday” and “Cyber Monday,” encourages people to donate to charitable causes. This year, UW-Madison has made it easy for Badgers to “do good” and refocus their efforts on their community.
Following an interview with Chancellor Rebecca Blank last month, Black student journalists published a piece expressing dissatisfaction with her response to the concerns of Black students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison is resisting general pass-fail requests from student groups.
In Dane County, Wis., home to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mr. Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris received nearly 35,000 more votes than the Democratic ticket got four years ago. And in Centre County, Pa., home of Pennsylvania State University, the running mates received 1,800 additional votes over the 2016 count.
No longer sequestered in an aging building in a space that was about equal to a garage with a few chest freezers, Bucky’s Varsity Meats, formally Bucky’s Butchery, has a shiny new home with a glistening meat counter, several glass doors for refrigerated and frozen products and bunkers filled with hot dogs, snack sticks and tubes of summer sausage.
University administrative codes and state statutes govern conduct on university property, said Brent Plisch, assistant chief for the UW-Madison Police Department. So someone in possession of marijuana on campus property can be issued a ticket under administrative codes.
As one of the only tuition fee that is decided and allocated by elected and appointed student officers, GSSF money serves the unique role of providing funding to eligible registered student organizations on campus.
Noted: Allyson Fergot, a spokeswoman for College Democrats of UW-Madison, said the group held weekly virtual phone-banking events over Zoom in the month before the election to encourage students to vote and answer questions about voter registration
In Dane County, Wis., home to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mr. Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris received nearly 35,000 more votes than the Democratic ticket got four years ago. And in Centre County, Pa., home of Pennsylvania State University, the running mates received 1,800 additional votes over the 2016 count.
The stands were empty save for some cardboard cutouts of “fans” behind the team benches. Piped-in crowd noise is better than silence, but it hardly can be considered an atmosphere.
Video: Most UW-Madison students packed up to head home for Thanksgiving and finish the semester virtually. However, positive COVID tests are leaving some stuck here.
Thousands of UW-Madison students cast ballots in the Nov. 3 election but the stakes were perhaps highest for the more than 6,400 students who come from overseas and are unable to vote. When the race was called for Joe Biden, the cloud of anxiety students described living under for several years lifted.
For the third time this college football season, Wisconsin’s players and coaches have lost a game to coronavirus.
UW instituted a pass/fail option in the Spring 2020 semester, but has not done so this semester.
Greek life organizations come together to aid Koats for Kids drive, bolster student volunteer efforts.
The University of Wisconsin football team will not play Minnesota on Saturday in the Battle for Paul Bunyan’s Axe, marking the first time since 1906 the programs haven’t played one another.
’I hope that [DREAMers of UW-Madison] is not at all discouraged from applying in the future,’ SSFC Rep says.
Minnesota has been battling rising coronavirus numbers within the program and school officials announced Monday night the team will not practice Tuesday.
COVID-19 may call off another University of Wisconsin football game this season, but this time it’s not the Badgers’ fight with the virus that’s causing the problem.
Sensing an increased number of students sticking around campus for the holiday and noticing heightened demand at the university food pantry, student organizers coordinated the pantry’s first holiday food drive. About 100 students placed orders for Thanksgiving groceries, which they pick up this week.
As students leave campus for Thanksgiving break, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is encouraging them to stay at their permanent residences through the remainder of the semester and winter break.
Alex Plum, a University of Wisconsin-Madison senior, was among the finalists for the prestigious 2021 Rhodes Scholarship.
Black students believe rock is symbol of injustice students of color face on campus daily, Wisconsin Black Student Union says.
“This is a huge accomplishment for us,” McWhorter told the State Journal on Wednesday. “We won’t have that constant reminder, that symbol that we don’t belong here.”
On Wednesday evening, the artists behind three of those murals gathered virtually for a panel discussion with Chazen Museum of Art director Amy Gilman and University of Wisconsin-Madison art professor Faisal Abdu’Allah, hosted by UW-Madison’s Center for the Humanities.
Second testing site provides more testing opportunities for students before traveling over the holidays.
How many COVID-19 road blocks will stand in the Badgers’ way over the next months remains to be seen, but at least they have a path that begins next week when they host Eastern Illinois on Wednesday at the Kohl Center.
Pending approval from Chancellor Rebecca Blank, the University of Wisconsin-Madison may remove Chamberlin Rock from its current location, a response to demands from students who have highlighted the rock’s racist history.
UW-Madison is moving forward on a plan to remove a boulder from Observatory Hill after calls from students of color who see the rock as a painful reminder of the history of racism on campus.
In the video posted on Facebook, the nuns stand in front of the group of University of Wisconsin students and dance while holding up the “W” symbol.
The testing site will open on Wednesday, Nov. 18 and provide testing until Dec. 23, according to a press release from the university sent Tuesday. The sites offer Abbott BinaxNOW antigen tests that provide results in as little as 15 minutes.
This will be the second rapid antigen test site on the UW Madison campus.
The new site, which is exclusively open to UW-Madison students and employees, will run from Nov. 18 to Dec. 23. The announcement comes a week after university officials opened a rapid testing site at Nielsen Tennis Stadium. Testing at the Nielsen testing site is open to the public.
“If there is diversity training, I would like to see who offers that diversity training and whether they have evaluated the kind of training they offer and whether that meets the desired outcome,” Brauer said. “Some kinds of diversity training make things worse, and actually deteriorates relationships between groups, so the blanket statement that UW needs more diversity training is one that I would not support or subscribe to.”
ASM also endorses letter from students to Big Ten administration asking UW schools to be more cooperative amidst pandemic.
Bell Magazine editor-in-chief Kehoe said she and her co-authors left their sororities, but believed they needed take further action to make others aware of perceived injustices within predominately white Greek life.
“If you want to create change, do you work within the system and acquiesce to what they want … or do you just say ‘you know screw it, this whole system is corrupt as hell, let’s just create a new one?’” Mitnick said.
These rapid antigen tests, created by Abbott BinaxNOW, process results in as short as 15 minutes after collection.
Despite the county-wide health order, Public Health does not have the authority to shut down university activities. UW-Madison will continue with in-person classes until Thanksgiving break, after which all instruction will switch to virtual-only.
