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Independent Student Newspaper of UW Oshkosh Campuses

The Advance-Titan

Independent Student Newspaper of UW Oshkosh Campuses

The Advance-Titan

Dare I say we’re a dairy state?

Dare I say we’re a dairy state?

Amber Brockman, News Editor September 3, 2020

Wisconsin is widely known as the Dairy State, but that wasn’t always the case. Dairy farming has been a valuable Wisconsin industry since the late 1800s, according to the Wisconsin Historical Society....

Complaint alleges harassment by UW Oshkosh English professor

Complaint alleges harassment by UW Oshkosh English professor

Heidi Docter and Kaitlyn Scoville September 3, 2020

UW Oshkosh Provost and Vice Chancellor John Koker criticized English professor James “Duke” Pesta’s classroom management after a student complaint for discriminatory harassment against him was filed...

Sophia Voight / Advance-Titan -- UW Oshkosh staff and faculty are preparing to bring students back to campus safely through frequent testing and social distancing on campus.

UWO ramps up COVID-19 testing as students return to campus

Sophia Voight September 3, 2020

UW Oshkosh staff and faculty are preparing to bring students back to campus safely through frequent testing and social distancing on campus. “Our top priority is going to be the safety and welfare...

Citizen soldiers and airmen from the Wisconsin National Guard collect specimens for COVID-19 testing June 11 at the Merrill Festival Grounds in Merrill. The National Guard is opening up a testing site in Oshkosh on Sept. 1.  Photo by Sgt. Alice Ripberger

COVID-19 testing site opens in Oshkosh Sept. 1

August 31, 2020

A new regional COVID-19 testing site is opening on Tuesday at Sunnyview Expo Center,  500 E. County Road Y, Oshkosh. Testing is free and will be conducted by the Wisconsin Army National Guard. The...

UW Oshkosh among schools that received bomb threats Thursday

UW Oshkosh among schools that received bomb threats Thursday

August 21, 2020

UW Oshkosh appears to be one of a number of universities across the country targeted late Thursday by bomb threats, according to a university press release. Officials say the UWO Police Department dispatch...

Childcare center on UWO Fox Cities campus temporarily closed following positive COVID-19 test

Childcare center on UWO Fox Cities campus temporarily closed following positive COVID-19 test

August 19, 2020

The University Children’s Center on the UW Oshkosh-Fox Cities Campus is temporarily closed following a positive COVID-19 test, according to a press release. The center was notified of the positive...

Leavitt decides to rename Fredric March theater

Leavitt decides to rename Fredric March theater

August 18, 2020

Chancellor Andrew Leavitt announced today he has decided to remove the name of Fredric March from the Oshkosh campus theater and rename the space the Theatre Arts Center. In an email sent out to faculty,...

UWO Flickr — UW Oshkosh employees are busy preparing classrooms for social distancing.

UWO plan to return to campus is ‘flexible’

Sophia Voight, Co-News Editor August 16, 2020

Chancellor Andrew Leavitt and members of the UW Oshkosh Recovery Task Force responded to student and families’ questions about returning to campus safely and COVID-19 testing during their virtual town...

Kaitlyn Scoville / The Advance-Titan — Mary Drephal, with two young children and a working husband, has stepped up to address food insecurity in her neighborhood on West 16th Avenue by putting up a curbside pantry.

Curbside pantry aims to fight neighborhood food insecurity

Kaitlyn Scoville, Copy Desk Chief and Writer August 13, 2020

A wide assortment of bright flowers and several butterflies accompany a renovated, painted and food-stocked wardrobe on the front lawn of a stay-at-home mother’s home. Mary Drephal, with two young...

UWO research project launching to consider future of Wisconsins paper industry

UWO research project launching to consider future of Wisconsin’s paper industry

August 12, 2020

UW Oshkosh and the Wisconsin Paper Council are launching a yearlong project to develop a strategic framework for the future of Wisconsin’s paper industry. Headed by UWO’s Center for Customized Research...

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