With a growing number of COVID-19 cases confirmed at UW Madison, Chancellor Rebecca Blank directed students to restrict their movements. We speak with the chair of the Associated Students of Madison about how students are coping with the pandemic and what they think of the university’s restart plan.
Freshmen say it is difficult to meet, spend time with due to social distancing, restrictions inside UW dormitories.
Protests prompted UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank to search for alternative means to honor former UW President Thomas C. Chamberlin.
As the ever present coronavirus looms, Badgers everywhere are adjusting to the fall semester.
Sunday marked the highest number of cases for both Dane County and University of Wisconsin-Madison on-campus testing since the pandemic started in March, breaking the previous record set only one day prior on Saturday.
The members of nine fraternities and sororities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been directed to quarantine themselves after 38 students tested positive for COVID-19, the university confirmed Friday.
Alarmed by a rise in coronavirus cases on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, Chancellor Rebecca Blank on Monday ordered all undergraduates to restrict their movements for the next two weeks.
As tens of thousands of Wisconsin students return to dorms and off-campus apartments this fall, universities have attempted to plan for just about everything.
Black students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison want the school to remove a 70-ton boulder from campus because its nickname is a racial slur.
UW-Madison’s return to the physical classroom nearly six months after shifting all courses online last spring stokes fear among some who say the safest option is to continue online and relief to others whose experience teaching or learning remotely was underwhelming.
State Street Brats in Madison is closing temporarily because of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, the sports bar announced Sunday.
UW-Madison ordered students who live in nine fraternity and sorority houses to quarantine for two weeks after more than three dozen members recently tested positive for COVID-19.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank on Monday ordered undergraduate students to restrict their movements for 14 days to curb the spread of COVID-19 on campus as cases continue to rise.
The letter said students should only leave their residence for “essential activities,” including receiving a COVID-19 test or medical care; participating in academic activities including classes, studying or research; purchasing food; going to a job; running or walking; or attending a religious observance.
The Associated Students of Madison published a letter asking for a “moral restart,” which includes moving all classes online, lowering residence hall capacity and requiring a negative COVID-19 test before attending social gatherings.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and Public Health Madison & Dane County announced Friday a mandatory 14-day quarantine for members of nine UW-Madison fraternities and sororities who live in off-campus chapter houses.
As the University of Wisconsin-Madison calls on its undergraduate students to severely limit their movement and in-person interactions, some hope it will be enough to keep campus open.
Members of other Greek life organizations said they saw this coming, with the influx of gatherings since students started arriving in past weeks.
The Madison City Clerk’s Office has canceled all voter registration drives scheduled to take place on the UW-Madison campus over the next two weeks.
As the number of positive COVID-19 cases among UW-Madison students continues to rise, campus leadership is directing all undergraduate students to severely limit their in-person interactions for the next 14 days.
With the university starting the semester in a hybrid model of classes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, junior Max Serpe said the atmosphere wasn’t the same, but he was glad to finally be back on campus. “It had been six months since I walked into the business school, so it felt really good,” he said. “It’s a home and I’m happy to be home.”
This comes after Chancellor Rebecca Blank wrote an open letter to students that was published on a university website, asking that undergraduates limit their exposure to other over the next 14 days.
One week into the fall semester, UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank sent a letter to undergraduate students Monday calling on them to restrict their in-person interactions to “essential activities” only.
Wrapping week one of classes, the university announced that nearly 40 students tested positive for COVID-19. Scattered across nine fraternities and sororities, the students were told to isolate, as the other members of their chapter homes were told to quarantine.
UW-Madison students are being asked to quarantine for two weeks following a spike in new COVID-19 cases linked to campus.
The city clerk’s office tweeted about the cancellations, saying they were due to the in-person interaction restrictions on UW’s campus that was announced on Monday.
All members of nine residences must be tested, quarantine after 38 Greek life members tested positive for COVID-19.
Announcement comes after positive test rate more than doubled over five day period.
Effective at 5 p.m. Monday, UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank directed all undergraduate students to “severely limit in-person interaction and restrict their movement” for two weeks following a rise in COVID-19 cases.
Facing an increasing number of coronavirus cases among students and staff, University of Wisconsin will ask all undergraduate students to shelter in place for two weeks, beginning at of 5 pm today, according to an announcement from Chancellor Becky Blank.
UW started the first day of classes for undergraduate students Sept. 2, during which several students reported technical difficulties due to online platforms Canvas and Kaltura mediaspace outages.
For various reasons, including health, logistical and financial concerns, a number of students have chosen to spend their semester from their permanent residences.
As UW-Madison welcomes students back to campus, student COVID-19 cases begin to rise despite the school’s “Smart Restart” approach.
Graduate students at other schools, including Marquette and Boston universities and the University of Wisconsin, have lodged similar complaints about feeling pressured or being required to teach in person.
Mary Evansen, a spokesperson for the university’s Division of Information Technology, said a vendor, Kaltura, was experiencing “intermittent outages and issues.”
While all dining facilities will remain open, the university’s Smart Restart plan limits access to only housing residents and housing staff through a key-card system. During peak meal times, students can order from the dining halls on the GrubHub app and pick it up outside.
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Classes at UW-Madison will start Wednesday, but some students think they’ll be sent home soon. “I’d give it a month, maximum,” sophomore Daniel Sendelbach said Tuesday afternoon.
There are a few rules that every student is expected to follow. Firstly, every resident will be tested every two weeks. UW-Madison Housing Dir. Of Communications Brendon Dybdahl said everyone living in a dormitory on campus was tested for COVID-19 on move-in day.
As students return to campus for the fall semester, colleges are taking measures to protect students, physically as well as mentally, from the pandemic and its effects.
“I keep telling myself that even if she is there for a few weeks, she’ll meet a few people to be in touch with throughout the semester,” says Elizabeth Rozen Silver, an office manager from Connecticut, whose daughter is going to University of Wisconsin-Madison. “At least that way, she may have some sort of community. I’m trying hard to be optimistic, but everyday the news from other colleges is getting harder. I am not going to sleep well for however long it lasts.”
Her comments come just days before University of Wisconsin campuses are scheduled to resume in-person classes after sending students home in the spring to complete their semesters virtually.
UW-Madison students are calling on the university for a “moral restart.”
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Fraternities and sororities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have committed to a no alcohol policy for the fall semester, in addition to previously released health and safety guidelines for student groups.
Many of the nearly 6,500 UW-Madison students who moved into dorms over the past week expect a short-lived semester on campus this fall. They have watched as reopenings at other colleges across the country either failed or are in deep jeopardy.
Though the University of Wisconsin-Madison is welcoming students back to campus for the fall semester, most of their activities outside the classroom will continue to look much like they have since March: online and from the safety of their own computers.
Wisconsin universities are reporting multiple positive cases of COVID-19 among students and staff as many campuses within the University of Wisconsin System prepare to start classes next week.
The First Amendment retaliation suit by an outspoken University of Wisconsin-Madison student who was told he didn’t qualify for a position on a temporary student-government board was properly dismissed on qualified immunity grounds, the Seventh Circuit said.
About 1% of COVID-19 tests administered by UW-Madison over the past three weeks came back positive, according to a new data dashboard that launched Wednesday.
The first event, which requires registration, is hosted by the UW-Madison School of Education’s Professional Learning and Community Education department, or PLACE, and Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. The 3 to 5 p.m. discussion on anti-racism in schools is the first in a “Real Talk for Real Change” symposia series that will continue through the fall.
Now virtually every window on Capitol Square, State Street and part of University Avenue is boarded just as UW-Madison students return to campus.
As the demonstration, which started on UW-Madison’s Library Mall, moved throughout Downtown, police diverted traffic from behind, keeping a far distance from the group, and protesters on bicycles moved along with the crowd to halt vehicles on side streets.
Students who just moved in are watching as history plays out from their front porches.
Madison is looking to raze the massive, “functionally obsolete” State Street Campus Garage for a mixed-use project that would deliver a new public parking structure, intercity bus garage, commercial space and housing of a scale resembling the Judge Doyle Square project rising off Capitol Square.
It’s the first official day of fall move-ins at UW-Madison, and like everything amid the pandemic, that process is looking much different.
The university says costs to deliver instruction increased during the pandemic.
Additionally, LINK organizers demanded UW remove the Abraham Lincoln statue on Bascom Hill and Chamberlin Rock from campus, and that UW have a ‘moral restart’ instead of Smart Restart reopening plan for the semester.
Previously organized protest gained numbers after Kenosha man was shot seven times by police.
The heads of the University of Wisconsin System, the Tavern League of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Restaurant Association sent an open letter to restaurant and bar owners Monday asking they take precautions to prevent COVID-19 spread as students start to return to campuses across the state.
UW System Interim President Tommy Thompson asked businesses to “help to encourage responsible behavior of our students,” alongside on-campus efforts to bring back a portion of some 170,000 students across 13 UW campuses.
