UW–Madison’s Taylor Odle, an assistant professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies (EPS), and Sky Duke, a doctoral candidate in EPS, recently published a paper identifying colleges and universities with strong outcomes for Pell-eligible students. Odle and Duke wrote the paper, “High Performing Pell Institutions: Identifying and Exploring Colleges and Universities …
By Xai Xiong, Morgridge Center After nearly five years of visionary leadership, Travis Wright is stepping down from his role as faculty director of the Morgridge Center for Public Service. Wright’s commitment to community-engaged scholarship is well known across campus. A professor in the counseling psychology department, Wright is the founder/director of the BASES (Building …
By Karen Rivedal UW–Madison’s School of Education will use $2.4 million in federal funds over five years to help launch a new registered apprenticeship program to prepare special education teachers in Wisconsin and advance innovative supports for special educator retention. The initiative aims to recruit, prepare, support and retain 100 new master’s-level special educators on …
By Amellia Fowler UW–Madison’s Xueli Wang, the Barbara and Glenn Thompson Endowed Professor in Educational Leadership in the School of Education, has been selected as a Fellow of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). According to the ASHE website, the fellows program honors members for their integrity, mentorship, significant contributions to higher …
By Victoria Vlisides, Center for Healthy Minds Over 1 billion people worldwide live with a mental health condition, but only seven out of 100 people actually get treatment — typically medication and/or therapy or counseling. From the start of treatment, much of the process is trial and error, leaving people caught in the current system …
By Amellia Fowler UW–Madison alumnus Keith Edwin Fox is the author of a new textbook, recently published by Cognella Academic Publishing. As described by the publisher, “You Be the Art Critic: An Inclusive Approach to Art Appreciation in the Postmodern and Metamodern Eras” introduces students to the analytical tools and frameworks used in art criticism …
By Karen Rivedal, Office of Research & Scholarship A new national study coauthored by UW–Madison School of Education Professor Mindi Thompson, who directs the university’s Center for Research on College‑Workforce Transitions (CCWT), offers compelling evidence that paid internships give college graduates a lasting advantage in earnings, job quality, and early career progression. Published in the …
By Kari Dickinson When Professor Emerit Laurie Beth Clark retired this past spring after more than four decades on the faculty of UW–Madison’s Art Department, she didn’t want to celebrate her own accomplishments. Instead, she wanted to recognize the hundreds of students she mentored throughout her career. That decision launched her on a months-long effort …
Office of Research & Scholarship Communications The Multilingual Learning Research Center (MLRC), housed within the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) in the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s School of Education, invites researchers, educators, students, and community members to explore current issues in multilingual education through its 2026–27 Speaker Series. The annual series features scholars whose work …
Award-winning author and illustrator Matthew Cordell will present the Cooperative Children’s Book Center’s 2026 Charlotte Zolotow Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 350 of the Teacher Education Building. The title of Cordell’s lecture is “Work in Progress: The Ever-Changing Process and Approach of Matthew Cordell.” Cordell received the 2018 Caldecott Medal …