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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

UW Oshkosh positive COVID-19 test rate on campus stagnates near 4%

UW Oshkosh positive COVID-19 test rate on campus stagnates near 4%

Carter Uslabar, Editor in Chief December 9, 2020

The UW Oshkosh Student Assembly met for the last time in 2020 on Tuesday to discuss upcoming campus events and changes to quarantine requirements on campus. Throughout the fall semester, UWO’s administrators...

COVID cases trend down

COVID cases trend down

Sophia Voight, Assistant News Editor December 9, 2020

Winnebago County saw a decrease in COVID-19 cases over the past week due to the lack of testing available to residents over the Thanksgiving holiday, according to the county health department. However,...

April Lee / Advance-Titan

To keep his mother living at Evergreen Retirement Community safe from COVID-19, Eric Duwell and his wife, Janell, do weekly “window visits” at the facility. They tried Zoom visits in the past, but found those gave Eric’s mother far less joy.

Wisconsin senior living facilities battle COVID-19

Joseph Schulz, Managing Editor December 9, 2020

Robin Wolzenburg, the director of housing and clinical services for the senior living advocacy group LeadingAge Wisconsin, recently received an email that broke her heart. The email, from a Wisconsin...

Dear Chancellor Leavitt, I was wrong

Joseph Schulz, Managing Editor December 9, 2020

Dear Chancellor Leavitt, I apologize. I was wrong. In an editorial earlier this semester, I predicted gloom and doom. I predicted that we would once again be sent home and forced to continue classes...

‘Words of the year’ are appropriately dreary

Owen Peterson, Opinion Editor December 9, 2020

Last week, Merriam-Webster released its annual list of the “words of the year,” and, as per usual, it served as an imperfect but entertaining time capsule of the year. Trying to define a span of...

UWO alumni discuss teaching during pandemic

Andrew Hansen, News Writer December 9, 2020

The UW Oshkosh Aspiring Educators Organization held a first-year teacher panel featuring three alumni who spoke about the realities they faced teaching amidst the COVID-19 pandemic this past Thursday. “I...

A conversation with Wisconsin State Senator Dan Feyen

A conversation with Wisconsin State Senator Dan Feyen

Sophia Voight, Asst. News Editor December 9, 2020

Republican incumbent for Wisconsin’s 18th senate district Dan Feyen beat out upcomer, Democrat Aaron Wojciechowski and is getting ready to serve his second term in office. The newly re-elected...

Since YouTube was created in 2005, the website has evolved into more than a platform for entertainment including a wide variety of educational videos.

How YouTube is changing education

Jelissa Burns, News Writer December 9, 2020

YouTube has just about any video you could think of, from cooking videos to gameplay walkthroughs and everything in between. Since the creation of the website in 2005, people are now uploading 500 hours...

Photo courtesy UWO Flickr — University of Wisconsin Oshkosh nursing students will now be eligible for a tuition credit of $500 for working to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

‘Win-win’: Tuition credit offered to UWO nursing students working in the pandemic

December 3, 2020

Beyond gaining valuable real-world experience, UW Oshkosh nursing students will now be eligible for a tuition credit of $500 for working to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The new incentive, announced...

NFL stumbles through season, combats COVID

NFL stumbles through season, combats COVID

Cory Sparks, Sports Editor December 2, 2020

As the NFL makes its way through the 12th week of its regular season, it is not filled with the reassurance that was in the air in mid-September at the beginning of the football season. As December,...

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