At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which is also part of the Big Ten and had a sharp uptick in cases last week, local health officials ordered all Greek organizations with one or more cases among their live-in members to quarantine. Several states, including Kansas, Colorado and Michigan, have tracked coronavirus clusters to fraternities and sororities.
Just days after moving into his dorm at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, Metter was instructed to pack what he needed and transfer to different housing right away. He had just tested positive for Covid-19.
The late-starting Big Ten Conference football season will have an unprecedented scheduling model.
At the end of August, nine days before students started class at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, more than two dozen local elected officials sent a letter to university administrators urging them to significantly alter their plan to bring students back to campus in the fall.
Significant numbers of freshmen have temporarily left or are considering moving out of Witte and Sellery residence halls, while those who remain are now halfway through a mandatory two-week quarantine.
UW-Madison on Wednesday extended its tuition refund deadline for students impacted by COVID-19 until Friday, as officials said at least one student has been hospitalized with coronavirus complications.
Even though UW-Madison’s in-person instruction will be suspended from Sept. 10-25, students will be allowed to report to their jobs in research labs under strict guidelines, Steven Ackerman, Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, said in a press release Thursday.
With the libraries here at UW-Madison closed and the only thing left to do is sit at our desks for hours on end, sometimes the perfect dinner night get-away with your friends is all you can ask for — while respecting the COVID-19 guidelines of course. Luckily, I have three restaurants with outdoor patios for your perfect evening.
And in Wisconsin, nearly 20 percent of the new cases since last Monday have been in Dane County, home to the University of Wisconsin’s Madison campus. On Monday, the university reported another 194 virus cases on campus, which includes 134 people living in student housing.
Sept. 12, around 100 University of Wisconsin students gathered in the rain to demonstrate, placing mock gravestones and a “RIP UW” sign in front of the Gordon Dining and Event Center.
PHOTO: Freshmen Lauren Tamborini and Bailey Donahue move out of a dorm at the University of Wisconsin-Madison after the campus announced a two-week pause in in-person classes. (Mark Hoffmann/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
After moving all classes online for at least two weeks, the University of Wisconsin-Madison may push back its tuition refund deadline and continue to offer housing refunds to students who choose to leave their residence halls.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s coronavirus crisis hit a new phase Monday with the faculty senate voting to cancel spring break and the school investigating 300 students for violating policies related to COVID-19.
At least eight schools have canceled in-person classes because of virus outbreaks, including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; the University of Wisconsin, Madison; and Notre Dame. Others seem to be trying to power through the pandemic. The University of Alabama and the University of Georgia have continued to hold in-person classes despite more than a thousand positive cases of coronavirus at each school.
University of Wisconsin System campuses are still working to ramp up COVID-19 surveillance testing of students living in residence halls nearly two weeks after classes started at most state universities.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank and other university administrators addressed their COVID-19 campus response concerns in a virtual meeting — Blank said the University of Wisconsin stands by their decision to reopen campus despite rising cases and community push back.
The Big Ten chancellors and presidents chatted Sunday about the status of the football season. University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank said some variables have changed since the initial 11-3 vote to postpone the season in August.
University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank gave an update on the school’s response to COVID-19 concerns during a news conference Monday afternoon and defended the decision to bring students back to campus for the fall semester amid the pandemic.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Faculty Senate voted Monday to lengthen winter break and remove spring break next semester, in attempts to discourage travel that might facilitate the spread of COVID-19.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison decided Monday to eliminate spring break next semester in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is eliminating spring break next semester to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
After receiving repeated complaints about how restaurants and bars are operating during the pandemic, Dane County’s health department may start fining establishments up to $1,000 for each violation of the public health orders in place to limit the spread of COVID-19.
On Monday, UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank answered questions about the spike on the campus of the state’s flagship university. Blank defended the decision to bring back students amid criticism that such outbreaks at colleges across the U.S. were inevitable.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank on Monday defended reopening the university this fall, even as criticism mounted, the Faculty Senate scrapped spring break and the number of reported COVID-19 cases on campus exceeded 2,000 infections.
NBC15 followed up after hearing concerns from several downtown business owners about the statements which were made in a recent tweet. Public health says the intent behind the message was not to discourage people from coming downtown, rather to raise awareness about self-monitoring for symptoms.
Amidst rising tensions between the UW-Madison student body and administration, the Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) Coalition held a demonstration on the Gordon Dining and Event Center lawn Saturday to protest racial inequality and the UW’s “Smart Restart” plan.
Four days into a shelter-in-place order for students at a pair of residence halls on the UW-Madison campus, new window messages like ‘Let Us Go’ and ‘Help Us’ emerge, while online delivery boxes filled a USPS van outside Sellery Hall Sunday evening.
Less than a day after UW-Madison abruptly ordered a two-week quarantine for students in Witte and Sellery residence halls, students Thursday were weighing whether to pack up and head home or hold out hope for a more normal semester while “stuck in the dorms.”
With the coronavirus positive case count climbing in Dane County as a result of more UW-Madison students becoming infected, and with some dormitories, fraternities and sororities in quarantine, there’s also a spike in demand on campus for virus testing.
As the second University of Wisconsin campus switched to virtual learning because of an alarming rise in coronavirus cases Sunday, statistics show seven state communities where colleges are located are among the fastest-growing COVID-19 outbreaks in the nation.
As she climbed down nine flights of stairs and stepped into the dark night in the pouring rain outside Sellery Hall, Lauren Tamborino described the scene as “apocalyptic.”
More than half of sorority and fraternity houses near UW-Madison’s campus are now under quarantine for at least the next two weeks.
A doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison issued a public apology this week after accusations emerged online that they were presenting as a person of color despite being mostly of Italian ancestry.
Freshmen Lauren Tamborini and Bailey Donahue move out of Sellery Residence Hall at UW-Madison on Thursday. The students will be attending class online for at least the next two weeks. Citing rapidly rising COVID-19 cases including two straight days in which one in five student tests came back positive, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank locked down the state’s largest university campus for two weeks.
In response to spiking COVID-19 cases, the University of Wisconsin-Madison decided to make classes virtual, restrict other in-person activities and quarantine students living in two residence halls, Sellery and Witte. The decision was made Wednesday and most restrictions will be in place until at least Sept. 25.
University of Wisconsin students gathered outside Gordon Dining Hall and Event Center to protest the university’s COVID-19 Smart Restart plan and demand racial justice on Saturday.
Students at UW-Madison, angry at the administration, made a symbolic gesture of the impact the restart to the school year has had: gravestones set in front of the dining hall that students in quarantine have to use.
As COVID-19 cases rise in Dane County and some call for UW-Madison to send students home, downtown businesses say they’re worried about what will come next.
In an interview with PBS Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank defended on Friday the decision to offer a mixture of in-person and online classes, saying the university is taking steps to address the campus’ record-breaking COVID-19 test numbers.
In the first two weeks since students began returning to campus, over 800 students and staff tested positive, making up 65 percent of Dane County’s positive cases. The steady increase peaked on Sept. 9, with a record-breaking 487 people testing positive in 24 hours.
UW-Madison may scrap spring break from next semester’s calendar to curb the spread of COVID-19.
Public health officials in Madison, one of communities that has seen a dramatic rise in case numbers, believe as many as 85 percent of recent cases are linked to University of Wisconsin-Madison. That campus is now temporarily suspending in-person learning for two weeks and having students in two dorms quarantine.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced Wednesday night that all in-person classes will be paused through Sept. 25 due to a growing number of positive COVID-19 test results.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is directing all undergraduate students to restrict their movements for the next two weeks in an attempt to reverse the rise in Covid-19 cases.
Cases have spiked in Dane County as the University of Wisconsin-Madison resumes in-person instruction. On Thursday, the county reported 456 new cases of COVID-19, shattering the previous single-day record and accounting for nearly one-third of all new coronavirus cases reported statewide.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Big Ten school, announced Wednesday it is shifting to two weeks of remote instruction and quarantining all residents in residence halls due to an increase in positive test results.
If the WIAA has state championships this fall, they won’t happen at the University of Wisconsin.
Wednesday the state’s high school sports governing body and the university announced that due to the “challenging situation with COVID-19 restrictions in Dane County” no state championships will be held on the UW campus this fall.
Dane County Executive Joe Parisi has asked the University of Wisconsin-Madison to consider sending undergraduate students who live in dorms home as COVID-19 continues to spread.
Citing rapidly rising COVID-19 cases including two straight days in which one in five student tests came back positive, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank locked down the state’s largest university campus for two weeks.
42% of 600 initiatives submitted on the site made by students.
Residents who break quarantine cannot come back for two weeks.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank has elected not to heed requests from Dane County elected officials, instead opting to move to completely remote instruction from Sept. 10 to the 25.
Students scrambled in and out of Witte Residence Hall on Wednesday night with their arms full of Ian’s Pizza boxes, panic-bought groceries and bags full of trash. One student entered the building announcing, “Goodbye, rain! Goodbye, fresh air!” as he prepared to enter two weeks of quarantine announced by the University of Wisconsin-Madison less than two hours earlier.
A record number of COVID-19 cases in Dane County, driven by University of Wisconsin-Madison students returning to campus, prompted a call from the Dane County executive to discontinue in-person classes, and local public health officials Wednesday issued a warning to people who frequent downtown Madison.
The WIAA and the University of Wisconsin announced Wednesday that WIAA tournaments will not be conducted at UW facilities this fall.
The Dane County Jail record for Englert also lists a tentative graffiti charge submitted by UW-Madison Police.
UW-Madison is moving all classes online and quarantining students in two of its largest dorms for at least the next two weeks, the most significant step by the university to curb a COVID-19 outbreak that has surpassed 1,000 infections in mere days.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is moving all classes online and quarantining students in two of its largest dorms as it deals with rising cases of COVID-19.
UW-Madison is going to virtual instruction for the next two weeks and is quarantining students in Sellery and Witte Residence Halls.
A stream of students with bags full of snacks and packs of water filed out of the Fresh Madison Market Wednesday night. As of 10 p.m., residents of Witte and Sellery Halls were to quarantine in place for the next two weeks per an order from Chancellor Rebecca Blank.
