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The Advance-Titan

Independent Student Newspaper of UW Oshkosh Campuses

The Advance-Titan

Independent Student Newspaper of UW Oshkosh Campuses

The Advance-Titan

Update on officer involved shooting in Winnebago County

Jacob Link, Assistant News Editor February 29, 2024

The Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) released new information Feb. 20 on its investigation of an officer-involved shooting in Winnebago County that occurred on the evening of Feb. 2. The DOJ’s...

Courtesy of WRST
Titan TV and 90.3 WRST-FM took home 26 awards at the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Student Awards for Excellence held Feb. 24 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay.

Titan TV, WRST take home WBA Awards

Jacob Link, Assistant News Editor February 29, 2024

Titan TV and 90.3 WRST-FM took home 26 awards at the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Student Awards for Excellence held Feb. 24 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay. 90.3 WRST-FM, UW Oshkosh’s campus...

Kayla Curtis / Advance-Titan

Marching band spends $800,000

Anya Kelley, Editor-In-Chief February 29, 2024

After two years of operation, Oshkosh’s marching band and pep band have used up their $800,000 startup fund.  When the program was conceived in fiscal year 2022, they were given a timeline: spend...

Jacob Link / Advance-Titan

Faculty Senate votes to continue no confidence petition

Jacob Link, Assistant News Editor February 29, 2024

The UW Oshkosh Faculty Senate voted to move forward with the petition for a vote of no confidence Tuesday afternoon, after a letter from Chancellor Andrew Leavitt asked Faculty Senate President Pascale...

Background photo courtesy of UWO Flickr, Art by Josh Lehner / Advance-Titan
UWO Provost Edwin Martini announced Friday that the university plans to reshape the school’s academic structure by January 2025
and laid out two separate plans to condense colleges and schools.

UWO announces academic restructuring plan

Jacob Link and Josh Lehner February 22, 2024

UW Oshkosh Provost Edwin Martini announced Friday the university’s plan to reshape the school’s academic structure by January 2025 with one of two different models that would shift the university’s...

Man arrested for 4th OWI charge in Oshkosh

Jacob Link, Assistant News Editor February 22, 2024

The Wisconsin State Patrol arrested a Wautoma man in Oshkosh Sunday for his fourth offense of operating a vehicle while intoxicated. A state trooper saw the man, Thomas Schneider, driving impaired and...

Courtesy of Polk Library
A section of books are off limits after suffering water damage in Polk in 2014.

UWO aims to reimagine Polk

Josh Lehner, News Editor February 22, 2024

UW Oshkosh is moving forward with its plans to reimagine Polk library, which is suffering from deterioration, with meetings in the coming months to determine whether the building will be renovated...

Jessica Duch / Advance-Titan
Amber Hammond sits in her office as the executive director at the UWO Fox Cities Foundation.
She wasn’t sure if college was in her future. But, after graduating, she now helps raise money for
student scholarships.

UWO Grad now Executive Director of Fox Cities Foundation

Jessica Duch February 22, 2024

It was a full circle moment for Amber Hammond. Despite the budget crisis at UW Oshkosh, the 2021 advertising and marketing graduate dreamed of returning to the campus that she said gave her the world.  Last...

Courtesy of OSG
OSG President Ben Blaser sits in a student government meeting last September in Reeve Memorial Union. 

OSG applications open for spring election

Jacob Link, Assistant News Editor February 22, 2024

Applications for the Oshkosh Student Government 2024 spring election opened Monday morning, with president, vice president and senator positions becoming available for UW Oshkosh students to apply for. Candidates...

Advance-Titan Photo Illustration by Josh Lehner

A relatively small number of ice shanties line Lake Winnebago. The near-record and record high temperatures this winter have contributed to the lake’s poor ice condition.

Poor ice conditions take toll on sturgeon spearing

Kelly Hueckman, Managing Editor February 15, 2024

Poor ice conditions caused a rocky opening weekend for the Winnebago system’s 16-day sturgeon spearing season, according to the Department of Natural Resources. “The ice this year is an anomaly,”...

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