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.
Noted: Protests in Wisconsin’s capital city started around 9 p.m., drawing out hundreds of protestors who were largely peaceful. The group marched up and down State Street and other streets near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, drawing students into their ranks, according to tweets from Emily Hamer, a reporter with the Wisconsin State Journal.
In anticipation of students returning to the classroom on Sept. 2, University of Wisconsin–Madison staff members are preparing campus with increased safety in mind.
Some Madison-area elected officials are sounding the alarm on UW-Madison’s reopening plan, alleging weak enforcement plans for students to follow public health guidelines and an “inevitable outbreak” on campus that may lead to larger community spread of COVID-19.
Wisconsin doesn’t have the capacity to process the number of coronavirus tests health officials ideally want available when schools and college campuses reopen, Health Services Secretary Andrea Palm said Friday.
Fifty years ago, a bomb blasted through a UW-Madison building in the early morning, reverberating across the city, killing a university researcher, injuring several others and forever changing the anti-war movement.
It was 50 years ago, but Bob Shaffer hasn’t forgotten. It’s not something anyone who lived through could forget.
University of Wisconsin campuses plan on welcoming students to dorms and classrooms in mere days even as colleges across the country watched their own reopening plans collapse amid rising COVID-19 cases.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is starting the process of tearing down the Natatorium recreational building this fall, as part of a multi-year, campus-wide recreational facelift.
Over the course of three days in October 1925, a crew of men equipped with horses and steel cables pulled a giant boulder out of the side of Observatory Hill on the UW-Madison campus.
UW-Madison students are beginning to return to campus, and campus leaders are addressing how they are restarting the school year.
Protesters from the TAA gathered at Engineering Mall yesterday evening to protest the UW Smart Restart plan for the fall semester amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The crowd of around 30 people started the protest by stating their concerns about spreading the virus to the broader Madison community.
University of Wisconsin- Madison announced Thursday it will not require undergraduate applicants to send their standardized test scores as an admission requirement for the next two years.
Buried under rubble for three hours, he somehow survived.
Madison365 talked to some of the students who are returning to campus to learn their perspective on how they feel about the ‘Smart Restart’ plan. They were randomly chosen students and have suggested that UW-Madison should reconsider its reopening plan by either making the campus, dorms and classrooms safer for students and workers, or moving classes entirely online.
Starting Sunday, service will increase by about 300 bus hours a day, from 700 to approximately 1,000, not including UW-Madison campus circulators or service for the Madison School District, Metro spokesman Mick Rusch said. The pre-COVID-19 level was about 1,300 bus hours a day. The increased service levels are expected to match current staffing levels and minimize overtime.
Laurie and Scott Dubin, along with their daughter Lindsay, stood outside a rented RV last Saturday with a heap of luggage.
They were about to start the 2,000-mile drive from the San Francisco Bay Area to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Lindsay would start her freshman year at her dream school in the middle of a pandemic.
“I hope school isn’t canceled from Saturday until then,” Laurie Dubin had said earlier that week.
A developer is proposing to add housing above and behind a popular brewpub and restaurant on Regent Street near the UW-Madison campus.
Students say they’ve been seeing a lack of social distancing and a disregard of public health guidelines as many start to move back in to student housing.
Spurred on by widespread civil unrest in wake of George Floyd’s death, Madison activists organize to raise awareness, force changes to campus.
The head of the University of Wisconsin System will propose its Board of Regents support a 3.5% increase to its 2021-23 state budget in the hope of funding several new initiatives, including a statewide free tuition scholarship program for some Wisconsin students.
New policy follows guidelines set in place by Smart Restart, CDC, PHMDC.
Noted: The College Democrats of the University of Wisconsin-Madison are hosting a series of remote, online watch parties this week for the convention with a plethora of political guests.
On Tuesday night, the group will be joined by former state Senate District 26 candidate Nada Elmikashfi and Madison Ald. Max Prestigiacomo, who is also a UW-Madison student.
Core Spaces, the development team behind the proposed Hub 2 apartment building on Langdon Street, has decided to appeal the Plan Commission’s July decision to deny its application for conditional use and bring its proposal before the Madison City Council.
The fastest-growing part of the state is also its most reliably liberal, with a genuinely left-wing political culture growing up around the state capital and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. When Scott Walker referred to D.C. as “68 square miles surrounded by reality,” he was taking a phrase he’d applied to Madison and updating the area size.
Will Andersen, an 18-year-old incoming freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, put it this way: “Who wants to pay $25,000 a year for glorified Skype?”
Lauryn Azu is a WDET intern who’s headed back to University of Wisconsin-Madison. She echoes those thoughts and says she hopes the university will be able to provide free testing for students. “I’m just hoping for the best and hoping people have sense, and hoping that they’re going to ramp up the testing that they’ve already started to organize for students that is completely free. So hopefully people are going to take advantage of that so they at least know their status when they’re going out in the world and doing whatever.”
Noted: UW-Madison had a virtual commencement this spring. It featured video appearances from administrators, students, athletes and author James Patterson, as well as a Camp Randall lights display and a carillon rendition of “On Wisconsin.” The university hopes to host a physical winter commencement in December and a larger in-person ceremony once the state emerges from the pandemic.
In a shaded parking lot on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, so-called spit concierges guide volunteers though giving a saliva sample. On the other side of the parking lot is a pared-down biology lab where scientists test the spit-filled plastic vials for the virus that causes COVID-19.
They’ll have the results within one or two hours.
The scene looked like it always does this time of year when tens of thousands of UW-Madison students’ off-campus leases turn over.
UW-Madison students and employees face a sweeping new process to report sexual misconduct on campus under rules that narrow the definition of harassment and bolster protections for the accused.
A group of UW-Madison staff members are demanding what they call “a moral restart” amid the pandemic.
Starting Saturday, students living in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois can drop off their stuff in dorms ahead of move in, which is not until the end of August.
The Friday protest was organized by United Faculty and Academic Staff (UFAS), the Teaching Assistants Association (TAA), AFSCME Local 171, and AFSCME Local 2412.
There’s only one “Badgers” nickname in NCAA Division I college athletics, and it belongs to the University of Wisconsin. The name has deep ties to the state, dating back roughly 200 years.
Here’s everything we know about Wisconsin’s mascot and nickname.
Over the past two weeks, Wisconsin universities have revealed more information about their plans for COVID-19 testing.
Colleges and universities across Wisconsin have developed a patchwork of plans to prepare for what at its core is an unknown: How to reopen campuses safely during a pandemic.
Quoted: Testing students every week or two will provide a gauge of whether the virus is taking hold on campuses. Many physicians stress this so-called surveillance testing is the only way to identify students and staff who are infected but don’t have symptoms.
“I don’t see how one can not do it,” said Nasia Safdar, an infectious disease physician at UW Health.
It’s been called one of Madison’s greatest unfinished stories of the last half of the 20th century.
What happened to Leo Burt? Three of the four bombers of UW-Madison’s Sterling Hall in 1970, were caught and sent to federal prison. But Leo Burt, the fourth bomber, 22 years-old at the time, is still wanted by the FBI.
His whereabouts remain a mystery.
Sixteen gallons of hand sanitizer sat in the foyer of the Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority house at the University of Wisconsin as house mother Karen Mullis reconfigured tables in the dining room to maintain social distancing.
The university is providing free COVID-19 testing for students, faculty and staff. It’s set up on Henry Mall, between University Avenue and Linden Drive.
Quoted: No plan for opening a university can be fool-proof, which leads to UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank being both confident in her campus plan and concerned about the things she – and any university’s chief executive – cannot control no matter how comprehensive a plan’s framework is.
“I admit I am both optimisitc and worried. I think we’ve done everything we need to do. We’ve got a lot of moving parts,” Blank told WTMJ’s John Mercure during Tuesday’s WTMJ Cares Special Roundtable.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s first on-campus COVID-19 testing location is now operating on an appointment basis, with at least two more sites expected to open for the fall semester.
Wisconsin State Journal reporter Jim Polzin asked Badgers fans on Twitter what they thought about the Big Ten Conference’s decision to cancel fall sports amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
’I don’t want to have to choose between being safe and having no income, or a disease that has really long terrible health implications even if I survive it,’ graduate student says
The Big Ten is likely to cancel fall sports, including football, over coronavirus concerns, according to several reports. A formal announcement is expected Tuesday.
An already-battered Madison hospitality industry could take another hit worth tens of millions of dollars if the Big Ten Conference ultimately decides to cancel the fall football season because of the coronavirus pandemic.
First, the council demands moving all courses online until there are zero new cases of COVID-19 in Dane County for 14 consecutive days.
Aside from the campuses in Eau Claire, Green Bay and Platteville, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and University of Wisconsin-Madison have introduced required pledges for students too.
A newly formed coalition of University of Wisconsin-Madison worker unions released a statement Wednesday demanding COVID-19 policies that include fully online coursework, payment continuity and hourly student wages.
If the college football season is able to be played this fall, the University of Wisconsin football team now knows who it’ll face and when.
Service will increase by approximately 300 bus hours a day, from 700 to approximately 1,000, not including UW-Madison campus circulators or service for the Madison School District, Metro planning manager Drew Beck said. The pre-COVID-19 level was about 1,300 bus hours a day.
