UW–Madison’s Mead serving as president of Education Law Association

November 3, 2021

UW–Madison’s Julie Mead is now serving as president of the Education Law Association (ELA), a role she started during the organization’s annual conference Oct. 20-23 in San Antonio, Texas. Mead is a professor emerita with the School of Education's Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis.

UW–Madison launching online Master of Science in Sports Leadership

October 22, 2021

The new program is flexible and fully online to accommodate students with busy lives. “At UW–Madison, we’re uniquely positioned to draw from the university’s world-class academic and athletic resources to prepare dynamic sports leaders,” says Professor Peter Miller, the program's faculty director and chair of UW's Athletic Board.

UW–Madison research team part of $102 million Wallace Foundation initiative to examine equity-centered principal pipelines

October 14, 2021

“The CALL-ECL project will tackle one of the most important education issues today: Can we prepare leaders to create more equitable schools for students and communities?” says UW–Madison’s Richard Halverson, who is a lead researcher on the six-year, $8 million grant that will allow the team to study the work of the districts and develop tools to help support the principal pipeline efforts.

Burt, colleagues examine how more caring advising practices could improve graduate students’ experiences

October 4, 2021

UW–Madison’s Brian Burt is the lead author of a new paper published in the Teachers College Record that examines Black male graduate students’ advising experiences in engineering — with the researchers theorizing that more caring relationships could assist students in earning their degree. It’s estimated that more than half of all students who begin pursuit of a graduate degree do not graduate with one.

New research brief shows how Wisconsin’s technical colleges adapted to COVID-19

September 28, 2021

An inaugural research brief from WCER Principal Investigator Xueli Wang’s NSF-funded study of change and innovation in technical education finds institutions in the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) moved rapidly in response to the pandemic, revamping services and instructional practices to holistically serve students and meet their critical needs.