Category: Campus life

Students who want to vote via an in-person absentee ballot can do so from noon until 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday at several sites on the UW-Madison campus.

Based on the advice of Public Health, voting will take place in tents on Engineering Mall, Library Mall, by the Kohl Center, and near the Natatorium.

In-person absentee voting on campus began Monday at Engineering Mall, Library Mall, near the Kohl Center, and by the Natatorium.

Restaurant-reservation software company OpenTable is one vendor that’s seen increased demand, according to COO Andrea Johnston. Schools like Cornell University and University of Wisconsin-Madison have already signed on to use the service to handle dining hall capacity.

Gracie Lund made her first Today show debut when she was just a child. She is now working remotely as an intern for the show.

A new survey, conducted by the United Faculty and Academic Staff and the Teaching Assistants Association, shows 86.4 percent of UW-Madison workers are uncomfortable with the university’s reopening plan. Most responses came from graduate student workers and faculty, but some undergraduate students feel the same

UW-Madison houses about 8,000 students on a typical year, but Director of Marketing and Communication for University Housing Brendon Dybdahl said they’re expecting between 7,300 and 7,500 students to live on campus for the 2020-2021 school year.

A survey of staff at UW-Madison shows an overwhelming majority are uncomfortable returning to work on campus this fall.

Seamus Rohrer, 17, will study journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, drawn to the prospect of writing for two student newspapers. He will drive northwest with one of his parents from his New York City home come fall, a plan he had made before the coronavirus outbreak.

As part of its Back to School webinar series to help college and K-12 dining programs get ready for the fall, Food Management held a session titled “How to Start a Delivery Program on Your Campus” on July 21 featuring Peter Testory, director of dining & culinary services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM), and Darin Schluep, director of Associated Students Dining Services at the University of California-Davis (UCD). It was moderated by FM Group Content Director Becky Schilling

With a little over a month before classes start at UW-Madison, university leaders are working on plans to reopen with in person and online classes.

Protesters gathered on Library Mall to say the plan does not take students’ safety into account enough.

In the middle of a pandemic, international college students have needed more support and sympathy ever before, especially as many have been stranded in Madison for months. But in the United States the Trump administration added to their stress and anxiety by issuing an order to strip students of their US visas and deport them if their courses go entirely online.

Over 1,800 participants joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s virtual panel discussion dedicated to understanding how racism impacts students and alumni engagement in an event titled “Committed to Change: A Call to Action, Understanding How Racism Shows Up and Impacts Students and Alumni Engagement.”

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Monday that international students who are enrolled in online only classes for the upcoming semester will have to leave the country or risk deportation.

Those guidelines issued Monday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement say international students would have to leave the country or transfer to another college if their school goes entirely online this fall. Schools had to do that in the spring semester because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Everyone who visits these campus sites will need to wear a mask or face covering and abide by social distancing guidelines.

Most recently, Lewis, who earned his doctorate of education from the University of Wisconsin–Stout, was the higher education director at the Ho-Chunk Nation Education Department where he designed a successful work-based learning internship program and increased the annual college graduation rate by 250 percent.

Instead of picking a single day or two-day period to visit campus as in previous years, students set aside a week to complete the online content. During that week, students meet with an adviser over video conference to enroll in courses and engage in other online events about important resources and campus culture.

UW-Madison spokesman John Lucas said Thursday the plan to offer in-person instruction Sept. 2 remains in place and he dismissed the notion of finances driving the decision to reopen. He also said the plan may help the city because regardless of how UW-Madison operates this fall, many students will return in August when their off-campus housing leases start.

The statue, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has sat on top of Bascom Hill, looking down State Street toward the Capitol Dome, since 1906.

While conceding that “like those of all presidents, Lincoln’s legacy is complex and contains actions which, 150 years later, appear flawed,” Blank noted that Lincoln is considered to be “one of our greatest presidents, having issued the Emancipation Proclamation, persuaded Congress to adopt the 13th Amendment ending slavery and preserved the Union during the Civil War.”

“While we can certainly admit that President Lincoln is not perfect when examining him under today’s moral lens over 150 years later, erasing our shared history does not lead to progress,” according to a release from College Republicans.

Abraham Lincoln is the next historical figure whose statue deserves removal, some University of Wisconsin-Madison students say.

“As the leader of UW–Madison, I believe that Abraham Lincoln’s legacy… should be both celebrated and critiqued,” Blank said in her statement. As an example, Blank argued that while the University relied on “money from land expropriated from Native Americans,” the Lincoln-era land-grant Universities–like UW–have increased access to upward social mobility.

“I just think he did, you know, some good things … the bad things that he’s done definitely outweighs them,” McWhorter said.

As far as historical figures go, most people might consider Honest Abe worthy of a statue — but Nalah McWhorter would tell you what you probably learned about the 16th President of the United States is only part of the story.

The statue has overlooked Bascom Hill for more than a hundred years and is a staple of graduate photos, but what he symbolizes for marginalized students isn’t land-grant universities or even emancipating slaves.

Cheryl Gittens, an assistant vice provost in UW-Madison’s Division of Diversity, Equity and Educational Achievement, has been named interim leader of UW’s diversity and inclusion efforts, the university announced on Thursday.