Eagle Athletics
Return to Better 2021
We are committed to a return to classes on campus and in-person when the 2021-‘22 academic year gets underway.
Our students expect to engage with our outstanding faculty and with one another – both in and out of the classroom – and they expect to do that in-person, in one of the best college towns in America – Madison. That's why we are committed to teaching and learning in classrooms, and in-person, this fall.
Our Return to Better Task Force is taking steps to make that happen - not to return to ‘normal,’ but to return to better, applying all the lessons we have learned and continue to learn through the experience of the pandemic.
Active cases
includes faculty/staff and students, both on and off campus
Recovered
includes faculty/staff and students, both on and off campus
Total
includes faculty/staff and students, both on and off campus
Last updated 4/20/2021
Total: Total number of cases (Active and Recovered) among Students, Faculty, and Staff, both on and off campus, since tracking began in summer 2020.
Active: Positive cases not yet recovered.
Recovered:
Able to resume normal activities.
Covid-19 Updates
These pages are a resource for students, parents, and our entire community.
Fall 2020 Update – We Made It
Dec 11, 2020, 11:45 AM
Dear Students and Colleagues –
This is it, the last day of finals week. We made it. I talked quite a bit about gratitude at Thanksgiving this year, and that feeling is still with me. I am deeply grateful for the perseverance demonstrated by the students, faculty, and staff of this community. You worked together, did what needed to be done, and today I hope you feel like you’ve accomplished something that is both awesome and meaningful. Well done all!
Now it’s time to take a break. Remember that for the spring semester, we’ll follow the academic calendar as scheduled, which means spring break in March and Easter break in April. And we’ve just announced our intention to hold Commencement, as scheduled, in May 2021. Time will tell if that comes to pass, and a lot of things outside of our control need to go “right.” But I have every confidence – as evidenced by this semester we’ve just experienced – that as a community we will do what it takes to put ourselves in a place to celebrate our graduates in-person in May. We’ll still be masked-up in January, and we’ll still offer remote options for our in-person classes, but I hope you agree that even as we’re in the darkest days of the calendar, there is light ahead.
Tonight marks the second night of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights in the Jewish tradition. A blessing that is said on the first night thanks the Creator for keeping us alive, sustaining us, and bringing us to this season. Gratitude. Christmas is now two weeks away, and with it the joy of celebrating Christ’s birth, and a new beginning. My wish for you all – regardless of your faith tradition or spiritual alignment – is for the light and peace of the season now upon us to give you rest and sustenance.
Be well, and be safe. Wear your mask.
Cor ad cor loquitur.
-Andrew P. Manion, Ph.D.
President