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Independent Student Newspaper of UW Oshkosh Campuses

The Advance-Titan

Independent Student Newspaper of UW Oshkosh Campuses

The Advance-Titan

Independent Student Newspaper of UW Oshkosh Campuses

The Advance-Titan

Courtesy of UWO Athletics -- The UWO volleyball team huddles up before a match against UW-Stevens Point last season.

UWO volleyball looks to make another NCAA Tournament run

Nolan Swenson, Co-Sports Editor August 29, 2023

UW Oshkosh volleyball will make its 2023 debut at the Trinity Invitational in San Antonio Texas Sept. 1 for a two-day tournament competing against four non-conference teams. The Titans are picked to...

Morgan Feltz / The Advance-Titan -- Gabby Born sends the ball flying past her opponent in a game last season.

UWO women’s soccer looks to rebound after dissapointing season

Submitted news August 29, 2023

The UW-Oshkosh women's soccer team will celebrate their 30th season in 2023 as they compete for the third Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) regular season title and fourth WIAC tournament...

Courtesy of UWO Athletics -- UWO's Ava Downie placed second individually for the Titans at the Titan Classic last season.

Cassmeyer hopes to turn golf program into WIAC powerhouse

Jacob Link, Co-Sports Editor August 29, 2023

The UW Oshkosh women’s golf team will have a new face at the helm of the Titans as they begin their 2023 season Sept. 9 at the UW-Eau Claire Georgianni Blugold Invitational. Tyler Cassmeyer was named...

Courtesy of UWO Athletics --UWO's Cordelia Damkot hits a volley against UWW last season.

UWO tennis to begin season at Whitewater

Nolan Swenson, Co-Sports Editor August 29, 2023

The UW Oshkosh tennis team will look to improve on last season’s 6-4 record when the Titans take on UW-Whitewater in an away game for the opening match of its 2023-24 season Sept. 1. The Titans attend...

UWO tennis begins season at Whitewater

August 29, 2023

The UW Oshkosh tennis team will look to improve on last season’s 6-4 record when the Titans take on UW-Whitewater in an away game for the opening match of its 2023-24 season Sept. 1. The Titans attend...

Courtesy of UWO -- Amber Evans will begin serving as associate vice chancellor of Enrollment Management July 31.

Evans to lead UW Oshkosh enrollment management

Submitted news July 25, 2023

University of Wisconsin Oshkosh has hired Amber Evans as its top enrollment officer. Evans will begin serving as associate vice chancellor of Enrollment Management Monday, July 31. “In a highly...

Courtesy of Mark Buckawicki, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons --  A bipartisan bill, the Community News & Small Business Support Act, has been introduced in Congress and would offer relief to both newspapers and local businesses.

Local news is good for business

Submitted news July 24, 2023

It’s no secret that recent years have been tough on small businesses and on newspapers. A bipartisan bill, the Community News & Small Business Support Act, that has been introduced in Congress would...

Courtesy of Tony Evers, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons -- The new law Evers signed includes creating an Office of Literacy to contract 64 full-time literacy coaches who will help teachers implement a new system based on phonics, vocabulary building, reading fluency, and oral language development, among other things. That will replace programs in some schools that stressed the teaching reading through pictures, words cues and memorization.

Gov. Evers signs reading bill

Submitted news July 24, 2023

It's the middle of summer. But the school year is just around the corner. So it's a good time for an update on the state's new approach to reading. Some Democrats in the Legislature voted for it,...

Courtesy of Dori, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons -- Wisconsin’s newly enacted 2023-25 state budget increased total gross state appropriations from all revenue sources to $98.66 billion over the two-year period, an 11.7% increase. That is the fastest growth in budgeted spending in Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB) figures going back to at least 1995.

New state budget settles big issues, leaves room to keep bargaining on others

Submitted news July 24, 2023

Drawing upon an unprecedented state surplus of nearly $7 billion, Wisconsin’s new state budget features a combination that might otherwise have seemed impossible: the largest increase in funding for...

Courtesy of the WNA Foundation -- “Information disorder,” a term encompassing several kinds of misinformation, disinformation and malinformation that plague society. The various forms include propaganda, lies, conspiracies, rumors, hoaxes, hyper-partisan content, falsehoods and manipulated media, according to those who study the disease.

Misinformation, disinformation: A guide to sorting fiction from reality

Submitted news July 24, 2023

A viral TikTok claimed Disney World sought to lower the drinking age to 18. President Biden made outsized claims about job creation. A Twitter user impersonated a pharmaceutical giant announcing insulin...

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