While the Chazen Museum of Art on the UW-Madison campus is closed, staff encourage would-be guests to peruse the free museum’s permanent collection of more than 23,000 works online.
The coronavirus outbreak has prompted several changes at UW-Madison and a ’Safer at Home’ order for the entire state, and these changes have had a significant impact on some international students at UW-Madison.
As students are learning online for the remainder of the semester, the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus is looking empty these days.
Discriminatory chalk writing that appeared late Wednesday night sparked frustration and fear among UW-Madison’s Asian and Asian-American community — and prompted the university to again emphasize its stance against racist actions.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Lowell Center opened Thursday morning as an isolation facility for people who have tested positive for COVID-19, following a request from the state’s Emergency Operations Center.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students will now have the option to finish their spring semester courses pass/fail, according to an email from Provost Karl Scholz on Thursday.
UW-Madison students can skip the letter grades this semester, one of several recently announced measures by the university to offer flexibility during the pandemic.
Racist, anti-Chinese graffiti appeared on UW-Madison’s campus earlier this week, the latest in an increasing number of university incidents spilling out on sidewalks and social media.
Over 400 people tuned into a virtual town hall Thursday to hear University of Wisconsin-Madison administrators discuss responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, most notably a recent rise in hate and racist incidents.
Assistant Director for Bias Response in the DoSO, Jenna Friedman, said the office received a total of 25 bias incident reports Tuesday evening and throughout the day Wednesday about racist chalk graffiti outside near George L. Mosse Humanities Building and the Walgreens on the corner of State and Lake St.
Provost Karl Scholz announced in an email a special Pass/Fail (P/F) grading option for students during the Spring 2020 semester.
The Keep Food Pantry at Luther Memorial Church in Madison, 1021 University Ave., offers food for students, staff and faculty at UW-Madison, Edgewood College, and Madison Area Technical College from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Thursdays.
With the spread of the coronavirus wreaking havoc with college and professional sporting events, University of Wisconsin officials on Wednesday pushed back the deadline for fans to renew their football season tickets for the 2020 season.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison says the university is responding to an uptick in racism against Asian and Asian-Americans on campus as the coronavirus spreads.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has condemned the bias incidents taking place around campus that have targeted the school’s Asian, Pacific Islander and Desi-American communities.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will be bringing in an outside shipping and packing company to pack the rooms of about 4,000 UW students so that the university can be prepared to accommodate potential groups in need of special housing provisions during the COVID-19 emergency.
University of Wisconsin Chancellor Becky Blank condemned the graffiti in an email to students and staff, implying that this isn’t the first such incident.
After successful pilot semester, program directors said Odyssey Beyond Bars hopes to continue to expand, inspire.
Many graduate programs ranked top 10 in country.
Dean of Students Office to hold virtual town hall tomorrow for students to hear university’s response plan, express concerns.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison canceled commencement Monday, extending the COVID-19 pandemic’s local economic fallout well into May, at the earliest.
Community college transfer programs face challenges both at their home institutions and at the institutions to which students want to transfer. Add STEM to the equation and the challenges grow. Xueli Wang, a professor of higher education at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, explores those challenges and the way students meet them in On My Own: The Challenge and Promise of Building Equitable STEM Transfer Pathways (Harvard Education Press). The book follows 1,670 community college students for four years as they transfer to four-year institutions.
The university announced Monday that the springtime graduation ceremonies at Camp Randall and the Kohl Center will be postponed to sometime later this year. Officials are working with senior class officers on a “virtual commencement” to be held May 8, the day before the in-person event was scheduled to occur for most students.
According to the Instagram account dedicated to the famous pup, Scout passed away after the cancer tumors he was suffering with started to bleed around his heart and lungs.
Scout, the golden retriever who starred in a UW School of Veterinary Medicine Super Bowl commercial, has died.
University effort to make all resources which were available on campus available remotely.
Scout passed away after fighting lengthy battle with cancer.
As midterms came to an end at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, freshman psychology major Eleanor Johnston stood between the double doors of Sandburg Hall scanning the street for her mother’s car.
According to a release from Guido Podestá, vice provost and dean of the International Division, program fees will be refunded to student accounts or credit cards, depending how you paid for the programs.
“This is definitely different than what we had anticipated for the last four years of our lives, but this was just as special,” said graduate Tenzin Atruktsang. “We had our families and friends still participating – not in the same way that typically would happen – but they were still there. That’s what really matters.”
Katie Malloy, the Associated Students of Madison’s legislative affairs committee chair, regularly plans voter registration events, speaks with lawmakers in the Capitol and advocates for policy change.
According to a message from Podesta, vice provost and dean of the International Division, the UW-Madison said all IAP study abroad programs and IIP international internships planned for summer 2020 will be canceled.
The years of studying and sleepless nights for the 2020 class of UW-Madison medical students culminated in a sanitizer-slathered celebration through computer screens.
“Sending out the message to the students that the Match Day was canceled was really hard because it is really probably one of the most important events in their journey to getting their medical degree,” said Associate Dean of Students at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health Dr. Gwen McIntosh.
UW-Madison’s biggest educational experiment begins Monday.
Refunds will include rest of spring semester, starting after spring break.
“They’re not letting us party,” said an irate Allie Shoman, 21, a junior at the University of Wisconsin. Her friend, McKenzie Feyen, chimed in, saying the virus doesn’t scare her at all: “There’s more cases where we go to school than here. We might as well stay and get hammered.”
UW Housing spokesperson Brendon Dybdahl wrote in an email to the Herald that currently, this is only a hypothetical situation.
One resource at UW-Madison, located on the fourth floor of the Student Activity Center, is the Open Seat Food Pantry, which serves high numbers of international and graduate students, said senior and director Yogev Ben-Yitschak.
UW-Madison campus routes are exempt and will operate regular weekday service Monday through Friday and standard weekend service on Saturday and Sundays.
University of Wisconsin students who paid for meal plans and residence hall rooms only to leave halfway through the semester because of the COVID-19 pandemic will receive refunds, according to a UW System announcement.
Numerous universities across the state are asking students in residence halls to come back and clear them out quickly, with at least one — the University of Wisconsin-Madison — saying it might need the space for hospital overflow.
UW-Madison residence halls may transform into emergency overflow rooms if area hospitals fill beyond capacity because of COVID-19 cases, according to the university’s student housing director.
Director of University Housing Jeff Novak confirmed the possibility of using UW-Madison’s residence hall rooms to house overflow from local hospitals facing bed shortages Wednesday.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced Tuesday that the campus will stay online for the rest of the spring semester, including finals.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced the university would move to “alternate delivery” from March 23 through the remainder of the spring semester and seek to further reduce those working on campus to those providing “essential services.”
UW-Madison announced Tuesday that instruction and exams would remain online through the end of the spring semester, another aggressive step by Wisconsin’s largest university to stem the spread of COVID-19.
As University of Wisconsin-Madison students left town for spring break last week, they expected to be gone for a bit longer than usual to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. But on Tuesday, they were forced to quickly come to terms with a new announcement: there will be no more in-person instruction this spring.
The university will shift to alternate delivery of courses from March 23 through the end of the spring semester, including final exams.
The policy creates an 80-hour leave bank for employees when ordered not to work due to COVID-19 and can’t perform responsibilities remotely.
Students who live in the residence halls and cannot return to a permanent address or access online classes away from campus will be allowed to stay in the residence halls, the release said. Limited dining services will be in place for those students.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will continue “alternative instruction” for the rest of the semester, including final exams, according to an email sent to all students and staff Tuesday.
Students asked not to return to Madison if possible after break.
Less than a week after UW-Madison decided to move all classes online until April 10 to contain the spread of COVID-19, the university extended its original edict Tuesday through the remainder of the semester.
The Crazylegs Classic, a running and walking event that raises money for the University of Wisconsin athletic department, won’t take place this year.
With in-person classes suspended through at least April 10, University of Wisconsin-Madison students have plenty of logistical challenges to tackle to continue their studies over the next month.
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Organizers of the 2020 Wisconsin Film Festival, set to begin April 2, canceled the event out of concern for public safety in the face of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.
UW-Madison announced Friday that a School of Veterinary Medicine employee tested positive for COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
“Some of the reporting classes will be using materials that already exist, so finding maybe a televised speech and having students cover that speech,” James E. Burges Chair in Journalism Ethics Kathleen Bartzen said. “And then sometimes it’s going to be making use of what they can take advantage of any environment they’re in.”
