Category: Campus life

“It was really clear the environment was a priority, and it was really clear we needed interdisciplinary training and research, but it wasn’t clear how to do that,” said Professor Paul Robbins.

“If you were a Badger and you are going to come back, please be counted,” said Brenda Gonzalez, Director of Community Relations at UW-Madison.

“We thought we’d try an experiment, which was to put this thing online and hopefully reach an even larger and more diverse population of people who think about, work in and worry about the environment,” said Professor Paul Robbins, dean of the Nelson Institute, as he spoke to the participants in a recorded video from his home.

Offensive speech is free speech, causing students, experts to debate its place on campus.

Ana Tinder, a sophomore music performance major and violinist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told WPR in March that she didn’t know how her one-on-one lessons and music ensembles would go on.

Naperville North senior Rachel Hale decided where she’s going: the University of Wisconsin Madison to study journalism.

When neighbors Joe Lahti and Greg Thomson shared a video of them and their neighborhood dancing to a song beloved by Badger fans everywhere, they never expected it to become a worldwide movement.

With SOAR online this summer, team is committed to giving families ’warm welcome.’

The webinar is part of the university’s Crossroads of Ideas series, which is typically held in-person at the Discovery building. Tuesday’s webinar is part one of a three-part series tackling COVID-19.

With no federal mandates on sex ed, students receive vastly different information, affects college experience.

“Originally, it started in Madison but we’re shifting our focus from UW-Madison to statewide so we’re changing our name from Dreamers of UW-Madison to Dreamers of Wisconsin,” UW-Madison senior and Dreamers of Wisconsin President Cristhabel Martinez said.

“This pandemic has really highlighted the discrepancies, especially for students of color who have already been struggling with lower incomes and fewer resources, and now are being hit disproportionately hard by schools closing and jobs laying them off and lack of support systems around them,” UW Odyssey Project Director Emily Auerbach tells Madison365.

When cases of COVID-19 started accelerating around the United States, the University of Wisconsin-Madison was among the first wave of universities to take action. Its administrators suspended in-person classes and directed students and staff to avoid campus in the interest of slowing the contagion’s spread. One century earlier, though, the school faced another pandemic and responded in a very different way.

“Right now we have a little over 500 students still living on campus with us, about 550ish, and we’re doing around 60-70 orders a day,” Director of Dining and Culinary Services Peter Testory said.

UW honored 13 professors with Distinguished Teaching Awards.

Campus events and meetings are canceled through May 15.

Badger Catholic’s $20,000 budget return will go to Grant Allocation Committee.

Students who are enrolled at UW have the option to apply for an emergency support fund.

Emergency funds still available through Office of Financial Aid.

Panelists answered questions about grading policies, mental health, financial aid.

This fight will require each of us to do our part. As former, TBV Editor-in-Chief, Marquise Mays put it, “if not for you, #DoItForTheGrands.”

Last week, over 70 journalism professors nationwide signed a letter to Fox News criticizing their COVID-19 coverage and urging the network to stop spreading misinformation about the pandemic. Three University of Wisconsin professors signed the letter.

Early-start summer programs still on, admissions creates virtual experiences for admitted students.

The university is expanding online offerings to include more than 300 courses as in-person classes are suspended.

“The decision to suspend in-person instruction was made with the safety of our students in mind,” Associate Dean for Summer Term Aphra Mednick said. “We already had a robust online offering and in response, we are offering even more online courses than ever before so students can continue their academic progress.”

“In the Dillard household we fight over ‘quiet’ space, especially for online classes,” says Kirk Dillard, chairman of the Regional Transportation Authority Board. On Tuesday, that meant “total silence” at 1 p.m. as his daughter, a student at University of Wisconsin-Madison, took a test. His high school age daughter is also e-learning. They each try to carve out space at the kitchen counter, in the home office or the living room, where Dillard makes conference calls overseeing mass transit issues at CTA, PACE and METRA.

Loss mainly comes from reimbursement for students moved out of dorms, employee parking permits.

The loss includes reimbursing the majority of students for room and board after the campus closed because of COVID-19.

The refunds will not include the spring break period and they will be issued to students as fast as possible, according to Jeff Novak, the UW Housing Director.

TAA wrote in the letter that while they appreciate the university’s quick response efforts to the pandemic thus far, there are several areas in its aid the university needs to improve on. Over 900 members from TAA and other allies have signed the letter.