Amid global challenges, decade-long UW–Madison–Peking University workshop advances international dialogue on higher education

June 11, 2026

Founded in 2015 by Adam Nelson (UW–Madison) and Shen Wenqin (Peking University), the UW–PKU Workshop on Higher Education is a premier international forum that’s one of the most active and sustained collaborations between the United States and China on the comparative history, sociology, and politics of higher education — an area of increasing policy relevance.

UW–Madison project joins with MMSD to meet pressing student needs

May 20, 2026

When the Madison Education Partnership (MEP) launched in 2016, its goal was simple but ambitious: bring together researchers and educators to address real problems facing Madison’s public schools to contribute to change locally and inform research nationally. Today, UW–Madison researchers and Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) teachers and administrators can point to a decade of doing just that, with changes in policy and practice to address some of the district’s most challenging issues.