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

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 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...

Courtesy of Blogtrepreneur, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons -- There are two basic types of whistleblower laws: those that offer legal protections to employees who engage in protected activities like reporting their employer to the proper authorities, and those that reward people who help the government uncover and prosecute fraud.

Legal protections for whistleblowers

Submitted news July 24, 2023

Imagine that when you go to work tomorrow, you learn that your employer is knowingly breaking the law.  It’s something serious and you believe your employer may be causing real harm. You’re not in...

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