July 22, 2020
UW–Madison’s Walter Stern was quoted in a recent report from FOX 8 in New Orleans about a group of people who pulled a bust of John McDonogh out of the Mississippi River. McDonogh leaves behind a mixed legacy.
Department of Educational Policy Studies
UW–Madison announces Smart Restart plan to reopen in fall
June 17, 2020
The University of Wisconsin–Madison plans to begin fall classes as scheduled on Sept. 2 and offer in-person instruction in many courses until the Thanksgiving recess, the university announced on Wednesday, June 17. Additional information will be provided to the campus community as plans are finalized via the “Smart Restart” website: https://www.wisc.edu/smartrestart/
Message from Dean Hess on School’s commitment to racial justice
June 15, 2020
The following message from School of Education Dean Diana Hess was emailed to students, staff, and faculty across the School on Monday, June 15.
UW–Madison’s Hora speaks with Washington Post about taking the internship online
June 15, 2020
Hora is a faculty member with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies and the director of the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions (CCWT).
Six from UW–Madison receive prestigious 2020 NAEd/Spencer fellowships and awards
June 11, 2020
PhD candidates Qing Liu, Huimin Wang, and Choua P. Xiong were named Dissertation Fellows, while faculty members Jordan A. Conwell and Diego Román were awarded Postdoctoral Fellows, and Kathryn Kirchgasler received a Research Development Award.
Four with ties to School of Education named Morgridge Fellows
June 9, 2020
The fellows were selected through a juried process to participate in the year-long learning community designed to further institutionalize and support community-engaged scholarship, defined as: teaching, research, and scholarly activities that are performed in equitable, mutually beneficial collaboration with communities to fulfill campus and community objectives.
New York Times interviews UW-Madison’s Hora for report on internships being upended by pandemic
June 2, 2020
Hora is an assistant professor with our Department of Educational Policy Studies and the director of the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions (CCWT).
UW-Madison’s Hora, Chen receive NSF grant to study online internships during pandemic
May 27, 2020
This award, for $145,000, is part of the NSF’s COVID-19 rapid grants program. Hora, the principal investigator, is an assistant professor with the Department of Educational Policy Studies and the director of the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions (CCWT). Chen is an assistant researcher within WCER who works with CCWT on research projects.
UW-Madison’s Baldridge authors, ‘Negotiating anti-black racism in “liberal” contexts’
May 26, 2020
Bianca Baldridge, a sociologist of education and an assistant professor with the Department of Educational Policy Studies, explains that her research “challenges liberal and progressive claims of social justice in education within predominantly white cities that reify anti-Black racism.”
Stonehouse, Smith honored with 2020 Awards in the Creative Arts
May 25, 2020
Each May, the UW–Madison Division of the Arts celebrates artistic achievement, recognizes service to the arts, and supports arts research by bestowing the Awards in the Creative Arts. And once again, artists associated with the School of Education were recipients of these honors. Fred Stonehouse received the Creative Arts Award and Leslie Smith III was recognized with the Emily Mead Baldwin Award in the Creative Arts.