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

Photo: Anya Kelley / Advance-Titan — While most of the U.S. calls public water faucets drinking fountains, the term bubbler is unique to Eastern Wisconsin and Boston.

Identities tied to how we speak

Kelly Hueckman, Managing Editor August 30, 2023

After moving to Wisconsin when she was 15, Massachusetts-born Payton Catron was left scratching her head as she received a so-called “hotdish” as a welcome gift. “I had no clue what it was,”...

Courtesy Anna Murphy-Pociask — 

UWO alumna Anna Murphy-Pociask has traveled the country this summer driving an Oscar Meyer Wienermobile.

UWO alumna travels country in Wienermobile

Mattie Beck, Arts and Entertainment Editor August 30, 2023

Anna Murphy-Pociask graduated from UW Oshkosh last spring, and  one of the first things she did after was go back to school. But it wasn’t just any school.  It was Hotdog High. Murphy-Pociask,...

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Edward Martini started July 5 as UW Oshkosh provost. His current priority is helping to determine how UWO will navigate the challenges of a $18 million deficit.

Martini chosen as provost after nationwide search

Katie Pulvermacher, Editor-in-Chief August 30, 2023

After a nationwide search in the spring 2023 semester, Edwin Martini was selected as the new provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs of UW Oshkosh and started on July 5. “Higher education...

Menominee Park road closed for reconstruction through mid-October

Submitted news August 28, 2023

Road work on the street that winds through Menominee Park, known as Pratt Trail, begins today. The street is closed to traffic during reconstruction, which is estimated to be completed by mid-October. Parking...

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College students: Watch out for financial scams

Submitted news August 26, 2023

College students must spend money on tuition payments and school supplies to prepare for the new year. However, scammers are taking this opportunity to try to steal some of that money through various...

UWO receives $500,000+ to train water scientists

UWO receives $500,000+ to train water scientists

Submitted news August 16, 2023

Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin has awarded nearly $4.3 million to fund 22 projects across the University of Wisconsin System aimed at increasing research and training to address Wisconsin’s biggest...

New automation engineering degree to boost manufacturing in region

Submitted news July 31, 2023

A new automation engineering degree at UW-Oshkosh fills a significant manufacturing need in Wisconsin for engineering professionals with programming skills. UW Oshkosh is the first in the UW System...

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 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...

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