Academic Task Force News Today

Fox Weather, Fox News Media’s free ad-supported streaming television weather service, has hired meteorologist Bryan Norcross. He will serve as a hurricane specialist and contributor for the FAST channel, starting March 14. In making the announcement, Sharri Berg, president of the service, said: “Fox Weather has attracted the best names in broadcast meteorology, and we’re thrilled to have Bryan […]

The University of Wisconsin announced Monday the implementation of a special pass/fail grading option for spring 2021 following months of advocacy from student organizations on campus. While UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank said the university would not implement another blanket pass/fail policy in January, students will now have the option to replace grades in any eligible class with two alternate options — Satisfactory Disruption (SD) and University Disruption-No Credit (UD). If selected, these ...