Category: Higher Education/System

A white anti-racism speaker was paid more than a black speaker at an annual University of Wisconsin-Madison Diversity Forum event.Robin DiAngelo, a white woman who authored the best-selling book, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, was paid $12,750 to speak at the event. Austin Channing Brown, a black woman who was the other keynote speaker, was paid $7,500 for her appearance, according to receipts obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. No other speakers were paid for their appearances.

As those outbreaks continued, state and local governments cracked down, ordering students quarantined to campus, like at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, or asking colleges to send students home, like at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

By mid-September, counties with a significant population of college students were fueling the nation’s worst coronavirus outbreaks. As those outbreaks continued, state and local governments cracked down, ordering students quarantined to campus, like at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, or asking colleges to send students home, like at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Evers has used his powers to declare three public health emergencies this year. The first came March 12, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The second, issued July 30, led to the first mask mandate and came as COVID-19 cases were beginning to climb. And the third, declared on Sept. 22, extended the mask mandate as COVID-19 cases were surging on University of Wisconsin campuses.

A growing number of University of Wisconsin System campuses are moving classes online after the Thanksgiving break to prevent further spread of COVID-19, as hospitals around the state near capacity for new patients.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has worked with 13 UW System campuses to implement “surge testing” sites following a donation of 250,000 BinaxNOW rapid antigen tests from health care company Abbott.

With over 30,000 undergraduates, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is truly massive. In spite of that, the school breaks down into much more manageable groups, with students finding a home away from home on sports teams, in fraternities and sororities, or even in political activism; something the school is known for.

The two recipients of the award were Dalila Ricci of UW Madison and Rkia Talbi of UW Platteville. Ricci is planning to graduate in May 2021 with a degree in civil engineering while Talbi plans to graduate in December with a degree in mechanical engineering and a minor in French.

The Abbot BinaxNOW tests can provide results in 15 minutes, according to a press release from the UW System sent Wednesday.

“Our universities are perfectly positioned to help Wisconsin combat the spread of COVID-19,” said UW System President Tommy Thompson on Wednesday.

The University of Wisconsin System has been provided with 250,000 rapid-result COVID-19 tests as part of a new partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to establish surge testing sites on UW System campuses.

UM is not the only U.S. university that offers online courses to their students in China. University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) is developing curriculum for how to academically succeed in a remote learning environment. The curriculum is to be offered in all 2020, John Lucas, executive director of University Communications at UW-Madison told Xinhua.

Furloughs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will continue for the first six months of 2021 to offset losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic, but Chancellor Rebecca Blank offered hope for next year, telling employees on Monday that “we expect to avoid the sort of dramatic cuts that many feared.”

Last spring and summer, as colleges and universities around the state scrambled to adapt to the new realities of educating in a pandemic, one issue kept coming to the fore: student enrollment.

State Treasurer Sarah Godlewski and the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands announced an annual distribution of $900,000 for scholarships and grants for the University of Wisconsin System this year.

Cases have dropped dramatically at UW System campuses after spikes when classes began.

UW said it will advocate for students, scholars with its peer institutions.

A $212 million plan to standardize administrative functions across University of Wisconsin System campuses has been given the green light by the UW Board of Regents. The project aims to standardize things like payroll, purchasing and human resources by replacing more than 700 different systems with centralized, cloud-based software by 2026.

The new hires and pay raises coincide with Thompson’s plan in cutting costs, which includes an unknown number of layoffs of UW System administration employees.

Balances in tuition reserve funds across the University of Wisconsin System are at their lowest levels since 2008. Without a significant cushion, some campuses are cutting spending and staff to address financial problems caused by declining enrollment, the coronavirus pandemic and eight years of frozen tuition.

Across the University of Wisconsin system, some campuses are already reducing fees for their students. UW-Milwaukee has significantly reduced their student fees due to the move to distance learning and online classes. Fees for fall 2020 are 23% less than what was charged in fall 2019.

The University of Wisconsin—Madison joined the Common Application in 2016 but chose then to suppress the school-discipline question from the material it transfers over into its application review system.

UW System is not able to recoup losses because contract with company did not specify nonpayment if hiring process failed, according to Wisconsin State Journal.