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WI universities stop short of COVID vaccine mandate for students Wisconsin universities stop short of COVID vaccine mandate for students As universities announce their fall reopening plans, some around the country are requiring students to have COVID-19 vaccines before returning to campus. But schools in Wisconsin are stopping short of a mandate -- instead, encouraging a shot before coming back to class. MILWAUKEE - As universities announce their fall reopening plans, some around the country are requiring students to have COVID-19 vaccines before returning to campus. But schools in Wisconsin ...

  MILWAUKEE _ Denise Elfe has made a gift of $1 million in support of students in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business and College of Nursing. She made the gift in honor of her late husband, Gary Elfe, a cofounder of Baird Advisors. Both Denise and Gary graduated from UW-Milwaukee. The gift establishes the Elfe Family Business Fund, which will provide students in the Lubar School’s Investment Management Certificate Program with a pool of funds with which to gain experience and expertise in investment practices. Proceeds of these investments will b...

Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A highly contagious coronavirus variant is becoming more prevalent in Wisconsin but vaccine shots should be available to everyone by mid-summer, pushing the state closer to the end of the pandemic, health officials said Thursday. State Department of Health Services Deputy Secretary Julie Willems Van Dijk told reporters during a question-and-answer session that sequencing has now detected 19 cases of the B.1.1.7 variant in the state. The variant was first detected in the United Kingdom late last year. Van Dijk pointed to President Joe Biden’s pledge th...

KELLY MEYERHOFER Among the items on Tommy Thompson’s to-do list as interim president of the University of Wisconsin System are managing a pandemic on 26 campuses, dealing with a financial crisis and leading the System through what may be the most challenging budget session in recent memory. Thompson has added another item to his agenda, one that could reshape public higher education in Wisconsin: Exploring the possibility of consolidation between the System’s branch campuses and Wisconsin Technical College System institutions. For the better part of two centuries, our jo...