With coronavirus infections surging across the state, city and UW-Madison officials are pleading for a peaceful, at-home Halloween celebration instead of the usual festivities that bring thousands to State Street for costumes, contests, concerts and crammed bars.
SIC demands include specific changes, general goals to recognize, support marginalized identities.
“[White people’s bias] is backed with legal authority and institutional control that transforms it into a far-reaching system, which is infused across the fabric of the entire society,” DiAngelo said.
“The Chancellor’s entire executive team, representing every administrative and academic unit of the campus, devised the plans, calling upon specific input from experts in public health, epidemiology, and other related fields,” said Giroux. “The Chancellor and her leadership team will continue to seek broad input from the best available sources as they adapt and adjust our strategies moving forward. Regardless of what tactics we employ, our goal will remain the same– continue to fulfill our educational mission while protecting the safety of our students and employees.”
In 2019, the innovative program launched Odyssey Beyond Bars, which offers students in prison the same kind of introduction to college that the Odyssey Project already provides to community-based students.
One bright spot: after an initial surge in September, UW-Madison has managed to keep the case count down, with only two cases reported on Monday and a seven-day average of 16.
Thrower talked about presidential powers, student activism, white allyship.
Can I vote in person before Election Day? Yes. Madison has 14 in-person absentee voting locations open through Nov. 1, including most libraries, and the campuses of UW-Madison, Edgewood, Madison College Truax and South.
ASM also heard special presentations from UW ACLU Student Alliance and Union Labor Council.
Each day covers different topics and allows participants in the forum to select different breakout group topics such as, the disproportionate effects of COVID-19 on minority communities or medieval perspectives on racism. Not only are there a wide variety of topics to discover more about, the keynote speakers are both experts in their field and acclaimed authors.
SSFC voted to accept eligibility for Promoting Awareness Victim Empowerment and approved their budget after making amendments, resulting in a 2% decrease in their overall budget.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield praised the expansion of COVID-19 testing at UW-Madison, adding that the UW System sets an example for how the pandemic can be controlled.
The Coalition, which was formed in response to the 2019 incident, created this year’s video in order to allow for students to not only undo the wrongs of last year’s exclusive video, but also to relay students’ experiences of campus climate, diversity and inclusion.
The Badgers will kick off their next home game against Purdue at 2:30 p.m. Nov. 7 at Camp Randall Stadium.
Badgerville turned into Boringville to avoid Covidville. Yes, the Wisconsin Badgers opened their delayed and shortened season on Friday with a 45-7 victory over Illinois, but without 80,000 fans.
UW-Madison junior creates homemade mask business and raises money for the United Negro College Fund.
Two polling locations on UW-Madison’s campus were closed because of the snow. The Memorial Union location remained open and voting was moved inside.
“[Madison] is kind of a bummer right now,” UW-Madison sophomore Jack Weber said. “Last year, you would walk into the city on a Friday and feel the energy for a Saturday game. Now, there’s no electricity in the air at all.”
The two new centers, located in the North Mezzanine of the Red Gym, are overseen by the Multicultural Student Center (MSC). Their opening comes after the MSC has successfully run the Black Cultural Center for several years.
Officials at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will continue offering a mix of in-person and online classes this spring, and the campus will implement a major increase in COVID-19 testing capacity.
SSFC approves Muslim Students Association’s proposed budget.
And Addison Lathers provided a vivid description of the night the hammer came down at the University of Wisconsin, and the panic that ensued at two dormitories that each held more than 1,000 students about to be locked down for two weeks.
Groups like Badgers for Biden, Young Progressives use new methods to encourage collegiate voting.
All students who attend classes or use campus spaces will be required to get tested twice a week in spring semester.
UW-Madison will expand their COVID-19 testing initiatives during the Spring semester to require all campus employees, as well as all students who live on campus, attend in-person classes or visit campus spaces to be tested twice per week.
The promise, first introduced for incoming students in the fall of 2018, vows to cover full tuition and segregated fees for incoming freshman or transfer students who are residents of Wisconsin and have maximum household adjusted gross incomes (AGI) of $60,000.
At a voting tent in front of UW-Madison’s Memorial Union, students were waiting more than 45 minutes to get their opportunity to vote. But students said they didn’t mind spending time waiting out in the cold.
Despite the drastic change in the event’s formatting, Mary Carr Lee, the communications director for the DDEEA, noted that the virtual space allows for more participants.
Gov. Tony Evers praised University of Wisconsin-Madison officials for taking COVID-19 precautions “very seriously” by closing down parking lots to prevent tailgating and allowing only essential personnel inside the stadium, reversing an earlier decision to allow parents of players inside Camp Randall.
Her school, the University of Wisconsin – Madison, halted in-person classes for two weeks after cases spiked to over a thousand on the campus of more than 40,000. Cross said she is disappointed with the number of students she sees still walking around campus without a mask – even though the school requires masks in school buildings.
Student organization uses eco-friendly model to distribute fresh farm-to-table goods for UW students.
Coordinators hope to strengthen sense of community amongst Latinx members through celebrations.
Students can register to vote at early voting sites at three spots on campus.
Classic events like Fill the Hill, singing of ’Varsity’ will all take place virtually due to pandemic.
Poll workers will be stationed at : East Campus Mall, Memorial Union and Union South. If weather does not permit, Madison residents and students will still be able to vote inside the Memorial Union. The tents will operate from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day until Oct. 30, when in-person absentee voting ends on campus. Absentee in-person voting concludes on Nov. 1 for the state of Wisconsin at large.
The vibe at Wisconsin’s largest university in this battleground state just 20 days out from the Nov. 3 election bore little resemblance to the campus atmosphere in the lead-up to the 2018 election when organizers passed out puppies, arranged celebrity visits, installed a bouncy house on Library Mall and wore costumes drawing attention to voter registration tables.
The week will offer students and alumni many online alternatives to traditional Homecoming in-person events, such as an online fifth quarter before Friday’s football game against Illinois instead of the usual Homecoming parade.
With the help of the construction firm where he interned over the summer, Baraka said he was able to meet and surpass his goal of raising $10,000 for the Kyangwali refugee camp.
The Executive Director of the Wisconsin Alumni Association said they were committed to connecting people online for Homecoming Week.
According to newly released data, UW-Madison set records in its graduation and retention rates across a variety of categories last year, and increased the amount of degrees it conferred.
Programs guided in partnership with business, industry, Tribal government, higher education.
UW BIPOC Coalition criticizes UW’s ’legacy of race and land appropriation,’ tweet by UW official calling ancestral Ho-Chunk land a ’gift’ to university.
Committee heard from Mecha on identity-inclusive programming.
“We want to draw attention to the fact that Chancellor Blank did not come to this meeting tonight,” Stangler said. “Part of the reason why we were brought on this as a special order was to finally have an audience with Chancellor Blank, but after verifying her schedule with Chair Mitnick on the 10th of this month … she pulled out.”
Efforts including the Gender and Sexuality Campus Center, the Posse Program, the Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives and the First Wave Spoken Word and Hip Hop Arts Learning Community benefited from the $2 million remodeling initiative.
The University of Wisconsin- Madison announced the completed renovation at the Red Gym Wednesday, saying it has improved student programming spaces and offices for diversity initiatives.
In several wards traditionally dominated by University of Wisconsin-Madison students, solid voter registration numbers have not translated into high numbers of absentee ballots requested or returned. WEC data shows about 1,500 registered voters living in Ward 56, which includes the large southeast campus dorms. Voters there requested 127 ballots and have returned 38.
“SEND HELP” and “FREE US” were written in sticky notes on the windows of a dorm at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as a soundtrack from “The Purge” movies — a series of dystopian horror films — boomed from an upper floor.
’If UW Administrators can’t meet this moment they should resign immediately,’ campus alder says.
A new student activist organization, born out of a summer of protest in Madison, has brought new life to calls for racial justice and inclusion on the UW-Madison campus.
The University of Wisconsin Madison announced early in the semester it would quarantine two dorms on-campus and switch to remote learning for two weeks.
Wisconsin Department of Health, Center for Disease Control say traveling during COVID-19 is risky, cite waiting lines, shared surfaces as ways of spreading virus.
’We have experienced several pushbacks and avoidance of not only our demands but our existence,’ BIPOC student says.
When it comes to $3.3 billion endowment, where is that money, what can we do with it?
Ald. Max Prestigiacomo, who represents the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus area on the City Council, is calling for the university to discontinue in-person classes and make changes to reduce the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on the Madison community.
University of Wisconsin football will kick off the Big Ten Conference’s truncated season a week from Friday.
Events to commemorate homecoming 2020 include a digital flamingo “Fill the Hill,” a Scavenger hunt with Chancellor Rebecca Blank, a Fifth Quarter performance and the first football game of the 2020 season against the University of Illinois.
Back to School – To embody Rodney Dangerfield this autumn, you’ll need to get in a car and drive through Wisconsin’s stunning changing foliage. End up at the University of Wisconsin at Madison (called “Grand Lake University” in the 1986 film) to see the lakeside college dressed in fall colors. Bonus points if you take this trip wearing a cardigan or find time to drink champagne in a hot tub.
Column authored by Sue Riseling, associate vice chancellor and UW chief of police, 1991-2016.
More than 3,000 of UW-Madison’s 45,500 students have contracted COVID-19 since late July. Some of them gathered in large groups without a mask, desperate to make friends in a new place or reconnect with old ones after months away. Others came into contact with the virus through their roommate or fraternity brother or some other seemingly unavoidable way. There’s also students like Post, who tested positive despite all of their efforts to dodge it.
