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.
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.
October 14, 2021
“What sets us apart is how (equity, diversity, and inclusion) work is a through line — it’s infused in everything we do. That makes us distinctly different,” says Brian Burt, an associate professor and co-coordinator of ELPA's Higher Education program.
October 13, 2021
Erica Turner's "Suddenly Diverse" and Anjalé Welton's "Anti-racist Educational Leadership and Policy" (co-authored with Sarah Diem) have been recognized by the American Educational Studies Association (AESA) as Critics' Choice Book Award winners.
October 7, 2021
Former UW System President Kevin Reilly is the author of an article published in the September/October 2021 issue of Trusteeship magazine — titled “A Wake-Up Call” — in which he argues the national conversation about the purpose of higher education has gone "dangerously off track."
October 6, 2021
The Culturally Responsive Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (CRPBIS) research center at UW–Madison has published a study in the leading journal Race, Ethnicity, and Education, titled “Transformative agency for justice: Addressing racialization of school discipline with the Indigenous Learning Laboratory.”
October 5, 2021
An opinion piece from the New York Times’ Jay Caspian Kang makes note of important work from UW–Madison’s John Diamond and Linn Posey-Maddox focused on the changing terrain of the suburbs and their schools.
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.
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.
September 17, 2021
The Wall Street Journal utilized the expertise of UW–Madison’s Jerlando Jackson, the Rupple-Bascom Professor and chair in the School of Education's Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, for an article that is titled, “A Generation of American Men Give Up on College: ‘I Just Feel Lost.’”