“Today’s announcement is encouraging news for all college students and for American universities,” UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said in a statement. “Universities need flexibility to educate students in the most effective manner possible during the pandemic and international students deserve stability and support as they pursue their degrees here.”
UW-Madison remains committed to preserving elements of in-person teaching, with physical distancing requirements and widespread testing. However, as families and faculty continue to ask more specific questions about what school will look like, the university has about five weeks to hash out the details. “This is a big lift,” Blank said at a University Committee meeting Monday. “We’re going to be running the university in virtually every area differently than it’s ever been run before.”
The rule threatens to upend the legal status of thousands of international students in Wisconsin, including roughly 5,800 on the UW-Madison campus.
UW Health patients will be among those testing an experimental antibody treatment heavily backed by the federal government to see if it can treat and prevent COVID-19.
The University of Wisconsin System has asked the governor for $110 million to fund COVID-19 testing and personal protective equipment, as campuses look to open this fall and the number of coronavirus cases in Wisconsin continues to rise.
The Department of Homeland Security announced Monday that all of the roughly 1 million international students currently enrolled in the U.S. must attend at least one in-person class this fall or be denied visas. We hear student reaction, and Jeffrey Brown talks to Rebecca Blank of University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The UW Board of Regents unanimously passed the mask mandate Thursday, a few weeks after UW System guidelines recommended masks but stopped short of requiring them.
After spending years studying at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Linh Nguyen, an international student from Vietnam, watched in recent days as his life fell into limbo.
“As someone who has benefited from White privilege, my first action must be to listen with humility and empathy – to faculty and staff, to students, and to others who love UW and also recognize its shortcomings,” Blank said in the statement. “Although the Black Lives Matter movement was the catalyst, these conversations touched on many issues and identities – Asian and Asian-American, Latinx, LGBTQ+, Native American and people with disabilities.”
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank addressed racial inequities on campus in a blog post Wednesday.She shared a number of additional commitments the university is making to ensure success of all students. She also said these commitments will require financial support, which may mean cutting other programs.
Statement outlines actions UW plans to take to address racial inequality.
The homemade face covering that best contains respiratory droplets like those from COVID-19 is a neck-gaiter-style mask combining a nose piece with an elastic cord wearers can toggle to snug the mask to their face, according to a UW-Madison engineer.
Thousands of international students pursuing degrees at UW-Madison may be forced to leave the country, risk deportation or transfer to another institution if the university moves all of its classes online this fall in the interest of public health.
The homemade face covering that best contains respiratory droplets like those from COVID-19 is a neck-gaiter-style mask combining a nose piece with an elastic cord wearers can toggle to snug the mask to their face, according to a UW-Madison engineer.
Instead of a traditional, two-day summer visit to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, incoming students are completing orientation and academic advising online in their own homes.
Some University of Wisconsin-Madison students of color want the university to remove one of its most iconic landmarks, a statue of Abraham Lincoln, because of what they see as the former president’s anti-Indigenous and anti-Black history despite Lincoln’s legacy of ending slavery in the U.S.
When Jeff Pothof, who grew up in Randolph, goes to the store to get some milk or supplies for a weekend project he wears a face mask.
Jake Baggott doesn’t remember precisely where he was or on what day he first heard the term “COVID-19,” but the coronavirus has since consumed most of his waking hours.
Dane County is reporting a sharp increase in coronavirus cases, with 279 people testing positive for COVID-19 in the last five days.
Half of those new cases involve people in their 20s, and multiple cases have been linked to businesses near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, local health officials said Thursday.
The majority of people who die from COVID-19 are killed by a dangerous immune system overreaction called a cytokine storm, but researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and dozens of other sites around the world are now testing a potential weapon against it.
The University of Wisconsin System regents’ leader has picked Republican darling Tommy Thompson as the system’s interim president, delivering another twist in what has become a messy search to replace outgoing President Ray Cross.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents appointed former Gov. Tommy Thompson as the interim system president during a closed session meeting Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison says many classes will be in-person starting Sept. 2 but will move online after Thanksgiving. UW-Milwaukee says classes will be a mix of online and in-person instruction throughout the semester.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and UW-Milwaukee announced Wednesday that they would bring students and employees back for the fall 2020 semester.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will reopen Sept. 2 for the fall semester with free access to COVID-19 testing, required face coverings and a balance between online and in-person teaching.
Come on back to campus this fall, UW-Madison told its 45,000 students Wednesday.
“The health and safety steps we are announcing today are rigorous, thorough and backed by science,” UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank said.
As part of the university’s “Smart Restart” plan, students will be allowed to come back to campus for academic instruction on Sept. 2, according to a statement from the university. Classes will be held with a mix of in-person and online classes until Thanksgiving break. After the break, all classes will switch to virtual for the last nine days of instruction in addition to exams.
UW-Madison plans to begin fall classes as scheduled on Sept. 2 with in-person instruction and a full curriculum. After Thanksgiving, UW-Madison will switch to a virtual format for the final nine days including exams. UW-Madison made this decision based on the likelihood that students leaving and returning to Madison over the Thanksgiving recess would increase the risk for COVID-19 infections on campus.
University of Wisconsin System officials are offering campuses guidelines for reopening this fall amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The sole finalist in the running to lead the University of Wisconsin System withdrew his name from consideration Friday after a months-long search marred with criticism and growing concern about the candidate’s qualifications.
“We have a large group of students and a big faculty. In terms of research, in dollars we are second to the School of Medicine and Public Health. It’s the biggest college at UW-Madison,” Wilcots tells Madison365. “It’s an enormous and broad operation … a lot of responsibility.”
The leader of the committee tasked with identifying candidates for the University of Wisconsin System president opening defended the panel’s decision Thursday to advance University of Alaska System President Jim Johnsen as the only finalist after all other contenders withdrew from the running.
Wisconsin has joined more than a dozen other states seeking to block new federal restrictions over how schools handle sexual assault and harassment allegations, even as University of Wisconsin System officials work to get the ball rolling on implementing the changes.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross is asking Gov. Tony Evers and state lawmakers for a line of credit, fewer regulations and the ability to begin classes early in the fall.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross asked Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and legislative leaders Wednesday to consider temporary changes for UW campuses in response to COVID-19, including potentially starting the fall semester early.
Daniel Tokaji, 52, has been a professor at Ohio State since 2003 and served as associate dean for faculty since 2018. Before that, he worked as a civil rights attorney in California for eight years.
Officials named University of Alaska System President Jim Johnsen, 62, the sole finalist, saying several other candidates removed their names from consideration toward the end of the search process because they did not want to be publicly named.
Entering the next phase of a presidential search process marred by criticism and hindered by a global pandemic, the committee tasked with hiring a replacement for retiring-University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross named a single finalist Tuesday.
The University of Alaska System president will likely succeed Ray Cross to lead the University of Wisconsin System, as the one finalist moving forward in a months-long, controversial presidential search process.
Gov. Tony Evers announced three new appointees to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents Monday, including a Madison lawyer who represented the women who accused former UW-Madison Badgers football player Quintez Cephus of sexual assault.
A Madison attorney who often represents sexual assault victims, the CEO of a Milwaukee startup and a UW-Whitewater student joined the state’s board overseeing public universities, Gov. Tony Evers announced Monday.
For the second day, a Madison protest against police violence against black people led to tense confrontations between activists and officers downtown. After a lengthy march, protesters engaged in a game of cat-and-mouse with authorities that stretched past midnight.
Noted: The problems were concentrated along State Street, the normally thriving pedestrian avenue that connects the state Capitol to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Protesters broke out the windows of Urban Outfitters, an art museum’s gift shop, Ragstock, AT&T and other stores.
UW-Madison has named astronomer Eric Wilcots to lead the university’s largest academic unit, marking the first time an African American will serve as dean of the College of Letters and Science.
University of Wisconsin System graduates earn a median annual salary of just under $50,000 after receiving their bachelor’s degree, according to a first-of-its-kind System study released Sunday.
More than half of the $70 million in state agency spending cuts ordered by Gov. Tony Evers will be to University of Wisconsin campuses in the first move to stabilize state finances during the coronavirus pandemic.
With the close of the spring semester at the University of Wisconsin-Madison comes the annual work of admitting incoming students for the fall. This year is no different, but with the absence of tools typically used to help prospective Badgers finalize their decisions and take steps toward enrollment, students and staff have refocused their approach.
In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, UW Health officials planned for the worst, preparing “space, people and stuff” for a surge of COVID-19 patients in need of hospital care. Despite a steadily growing number of positive cases across the state, the surge never materialized, but the plans remain in place in the event of another wave of infections, said Dr. Aimee Becker, chief medical officer for UW Health.
Column by Petersen, president of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced plans Monday to begin a careful, phased reopening of the University of Wisconsin-Madison over the summer.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s summer term began Tuesday, with over 1,300 online courses across sessions lasting into August.
Widespread testing and temperature checks. Socially distanced classes and labs. Isolation protocols. Contact tracing and cellphone tracking devices. Hybrid in-person and online classes. Modified academic calendars.
’We need to make a substantial share of the curriculum available remotely,’ UW Chancellor says.
UW-Madison will likely offer a hybrid mix of educational offerings in the fall, Chancellor Rebecca Blank said Monday.
“In short, it won’t be a normal semester next fall. And let’s be clear, we’re not just talking about the fall semester,” Blank wrote. “As we’re looking forward, we’re preparing for an entire academic year where concern over COVID-19 affects our educational programming.”
No matter what the University of Wisconsin does about classes, UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank still expects to see thousands of students flocking back to Madison this fall.
“We’re doing all the planning we can to think about how we manage that scenario, even if the coronavirus is ongoing, but there’s just an enormous amount of uncertainty,” said Rebecca Blank, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Braver’s alma mater).
Sports are a part of college life but the ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak could upend athletics for the foreseeable future. We’ll talk to a sports reporter about how COVID-19 is impacting recruitment and the upcoming football and basketball seasons at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine and Peter Halfmann of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, along with other researchers from both the United States and Japan, conducted the study, in which three domestic cats were inoculated with the virus and three additional uninfected cats were put in cages, one with each of the inoculated cats.
