Sporting events at UW-Madison, including Camp Randall Stadium, are exempt because state property is not subject to the county’s orders. Nevertheless, UW-Madison has put in place strict protocols for athletic events and doesn’t anticipate changing those in response to the new order, the university said in a statement.
The University of Wisconsin football team will host Minnesota for this year’s edition of the oldest and most-played rivalry in college football, with kickoff time set for 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 28. The game at Camp Randall Stadium will be televised on Big Ten Network.
A lot has changed on campus this year due to the ongoing pandemic. The vast majority of classes are held virtually, residence halls have serious restrictions and there are little-to-no activities going on across campus. Student employment, though, is something that has remained a relative constant despite changes in specifics due to the nature of the pandemic.
Some universities in particularly hard-hit communities may be asking students who go home this month not to return until January. One of those is Wisconsin’s flagship university, the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Over the course of two weeks, the university’s seven-day average positivity rate has more than doubled, including 100 students currently in quarantine or isolation, according to UHS Executive Director Jake Baggott. While UW increased its testing efforts, particularly in residence halls, Baggot called on students to help the university control the spread of the virus by adhering to social distancing protocols and restricting their activities.
Thanksgiving break has traditionally been a time to spend with family and friends, to prepare for finals and the end of the fall semester. This year will be different due to Covid-19.
In a message sent to all UW-Madison students Wednesday, the Executive Director of University Health Services, Jake Baggott, says the campus community’s positivity rate has stayed below the county and state level for weeks, after experiencing a spike when students started the fall semester.
The university strongly urged students to consider whether they actually need to be in Madison after Thanksgiving Break.
’Where there isn’t aggressive testing at the University, then things could get out of control,’ Alagoz says
Lecturer employed only through fixed-term terminal appointments, renewed on semester or yearly basis.
Badger Catholic requested an increased budget for several of their core programs amid other cuts.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison released a guideline Thursday morning to students on how to plan for Thanksgiving and beyond. The university says beginning November 30th in-person group instruction, including finals, will be fully remote. For students who wish to travel outside of the state, the university recommends that students stay home to complete the rest of the semester online.
The colors were to honor and recognize the men and women who have fought for our country on Veterans Day.
“We’ve been expressing concern for several weeks now, along with local and state leaders, about the continuing spike in COVID-19 cases in Dane County and throughout Wisconsin,” Director of News and Media Relations Meredith McGlone said of the ongoing spike in campus cases. “It is unfortunately not surprising that we are also seeing an increase in positivity rates on campus, although our rates continue to be below the surrounding community.”
Meanwhile, UW-Madison said its rapid tests for COVID-19 will be available to the general public starting Thursday, by appointment only at Nielsen Tennis Stadium.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will begin offering free rapid COVID-19 testing to all community members Thursday as part of a federally funded initiative.
Three UW–Madison student National Guard members are featured in this Veterans Day story
UW-Madison required residents of two large dorms to get tested Monday as the number of COVID-19 cases on campus rises to a level unseen since September.
The Black Voice’s budget was approved after the commitee made amendements to reduce the budget to 2%.
UW-Madison mandated testing for all residents of Witte and Sellery Halls on Monday, Nov. 9 amid rising positivity rates across campus.
By the time the Western Collegiate Hockey Association starts playing its 2020-21 season, the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team will have waited more than eight months to play a game.
Despite expanded testing efforts and increased enforcement of local public health guidelines, for weeks the UW-Madison campus has seen a steady increase in the number of reported positive COVID-19 cases.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials plan to expand COVID-19 testing for students and staff in the spring semester as they prepare for another semester of hybrid instruction amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
UW will partner with Shield T3, a subsidiary of the University of Illinois System, to provide more frequent and regular testing for all students and employees on campus.
In a long-awaited and altogether tense meeting Wednesday night, the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) Coalition has reached an agreement to meet with Chancellor Rebecca Blank at least twice a semester, with expectations to consult with other university administrators in between these meetings, in order to make progress on their demands.
’We would like for our executive board members to be paid for their work and time,’ The Black Voice representative says.
The UW has partnered with Shield T3, a research initiative at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, aimed to advance COVID-19 testing efforts by developing a saliva-based PCR diagnostic test. This saliva-based test is estimated to provide an additional 10,000 tests per day as needed.
At least 13 residences near the UW-Madison campus are under investigation for violating public health guidelines over Halloween weekend as the number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise in Wisconsin.
’There has never been a more important time to support UW–Madison,’ Chancellor Blank says.
The UW-Madison Morgridge Center for Public Service’s BadgersVote initiative aims to educate and assist students in preparation for elections. Recent campaigns and events — such as Zoom the Vote sessions and Virtual Voting Office Hours — uphold the BadgersVote mission “to drive student civic and voter engagement.”
Madison residents living in 13 wards with high concentrations of UW-Madison students cast 13,759 ballots at their local polling places, a 31 percent decrease in votes cast in those same districts during the 2016 presidential election. Votes from the five wards that encompass the university’s residence halls and Eagle Heights graduate student neighborhood totaled 2,526 — less than half of the 5,692 from four years ago.
A day after lines at the Madison COVID-19 testing center stretched more than two hours long, the city’s health department is investigating several large gatherings over the Halloween weekend.
The violations come amid a surge of COVID-19 cases in the state and over a weekend in which Wisconsin reached the grim milestone of 2,000 deaths.
Dreamers of UW-Madison apply for GSSF eligibility for first time.
UW students, seasoned poll workers alike brave COVID-19 to help voters.
A “Dreamer” currently protected from deportation under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the 22-year-old recent University of Wisconsin-Madison grad is authorized to work but can’t vote.
Four years ago, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Kathy Cramer, along with her daughter, dressed up in red, white and blue to cast her vote in the 2016 presidential election. Cramer has always “celebrated the act of voting.” But this year, she is checking in on polling sites on a much emptier campus and hoping people who have voted early stay home.
Ellen Abad Santos will be working printers Tuesday evening at the Chazen Art Museum, a new feature at all five on-campus polling locations this year. As Associated Students of Madison’s vote coordinator, Abad Santos has spent fall semester gearing up for Election Day, shifting in-person events online to make sure students have accurate information about voter IDs and polling locations.
On UW-Madison’s campus, temperatures in the mid-60s made the job of volunteers encouraging students to vote easier. Eight poll workers stood outside Memorial Union just before 1 p.m. asking everyone who walked by whether they’d voted.
Aly Orvis, a 20-year-old UW-Madison student who was a first-time poll worker on campus, said she heard there was a shortage of poll workers and decided to step up to help so older people who are vulnerable to COVID-19 didn’t have to.
As Nov. 3 looms, student turnout in mid-sized cities across Wisconsin such as Green Bay and La Crosse could sway the outcomes of potentially competitive legislative districts. But with fewer students living on campuses and ongoing challenges stemming from the COVID-19 crisis, it’s more difficult than ever for campaigns and organizers to reach those potential voters.
Leading the way in the record early turnout are the liberal strongholds of Milwaukee and Dane County, home to the University of Wisconsin and the state capitol of Madison.
While the president has played down the pandemic in his visits, Wisconsin has been setting records for cases and hospitalizations. The state university’s ranked football team, the University of Wisconsin Badgers, had to cancel its Oct. 31 game against Nebraska when multiple players and the coach tested positive.
The issue is especially important for schools serving a national market, such as the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The public university, in a state hard hit this fall by the virus, has about 32,000 undergraduates. University officials say they will expand testing hours on the weekend before Thanksgiving to ensure that any student who wants a viral test before leaving Madison can get one. Those who test positive and live in campus housing would be offered a room to live in isolation temporarily.
In Madison, volunteers who would have knocked on doors to remind people to vote are instead holding signs on busy street corners. At night, the Democratic National Committee is projecting reminders to vote onto the sides of buildings at the University of Wisconsin campuses in both cities.
To answer Hanson’s question, WPR’s “Central Time” reached out to Daniel Einstein, the historic and cultural resources manager for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Einstein is in charge of campus structures and landscapes; archeology, including effigy mound sites; public art, like university commemorative objects and statues; and the campus art collection.
“It is impossible to think that anything that could happen in a school could happen without echoes in the larger community,” UW-Madison pathology professor David O’Connor said. “The question is: how large are those echoes?”
Officials with the city, public health and UW-Madison all encouraged people to stay away from the iconic street on what typically is its biggest night.
The Wisconsin Democratic Party’s “What’s at Stake” bus tour stopped at the UW-Madison campus this afternoon.
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin thanked University of Wisconsin-Madison students who have organized on-campus voting efforts Sunday night.The Wisconsin democrat delivered pizzas to students on East Campus Mall.
Blank pointed to work in the newly created Diversity, Equity and Inclusion branch — resulting from the Homecoming Video incident and subsequent demands last year — to recognize BIPOC student concerns.
Sanders called Tuesday the ’most important election in modern history.’
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced Thursday the university would extend its “All Ways Forward” campaign until the end of next year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Mason Crooks was hungry. As he does for lunch about three times a week, the University of Wisconsin-Madison freshman grabbed his phone in his room at Slichter Residence Hall and ordered lunch: rotini pasta with chicken and mushrooms and a can of iced tea.
Video: If you’ve spent time around the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in the last year, you’ve probably spotted the adorable white robots rolling along the sidewalks or waiting to cross a busy street, carrying lunch to a hungry student or professor.
107,738 of 120,514 requested absentee ballots have been returned in the City of Madison.
SSFC decreased Atheists, Humanists, Agnostics’ budget by 2.61%.
And at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, about 6,000 students have signed up as poll workers to help their fellow Badgers navigate some of the nation’s toughest voter identification laws.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison student government voted Tuesday to support the cancellation of all synchronous classes on Election Day, though university administration is not likely to implement any such formal requirements.
With observers watching Wisconsin as a critical state in the 2020 presidential election, University of Wisconsin-Madison student organizations are working to get their peers to the polls using podcasts, Zoom meetings and other innovative approaches.
