Kelli Koltyn and Susan Andreae recently received a UW-Madison Contemporary Social Problems Initiative Award for their project titled “Enhancing Maintenance of Standing Up and Moving more in Older Adults.” Koltyn is a professor with the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology, while Andreae is an assistant professor with the department. Older adults spend most of the …
Cigdem Unal, director of UW–Madison’s Office of Child Care and Family Resources, has been chosen by Exchange magazine to be a part of its newest cohort of Exchange Leaders. Exchange magazine, which promotes itself as “The Early Childhood Leaders’ Magazine,” since 2014 has been identifying and inviting early childhood leaders to join the Exchange Leadership Initiative. Those …
UW-Madison’s David Kaplan was named a research affiliate at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) located in Bamberg, Germany. Kaplan is the Patricia Busk Professor of Quantitative Methods with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology. According to the institute’s website, “…LIfBi at the University of Bamberg aims to promote longitudinal studies in educational research …
Kristen Hendrickson was recently named the UW–Madison School of Education’s chief financial officer (CFO), a position she is starting on Aug. 12. In this role, Hendrickson will oversee financial forecasting and planning, budget/resource management, business services, facilities management, and human resources. She will work closely with the dean, senior staff, and department and unit leaders …
UW-Madison’s Ellie Bruecker is the co-author of an important new paper that is designed to help states reconsider, reconceptualize, and ultimately improve their higher education authorization processes. Bruecker is a doctoral student with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis (ELPA). She co-authored the report with David Tandberg and Dustin Weeden of …
UW-Madison alumnus David Perrodin presented at the July 3 Wednesday Night at the Lab (WN@TL) event, delivering a talk on the UW-Madison campus titled, “School safety in America: Rhetoric vs reality.” Perrodin earned his Ph.D. from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis (ELPA) in 2016. Perrodin, author of the book “School of …
During her time as a high school Spanish teacher, Jennifer Seelig wondered how the community’s relationship with the school affects learning and instruction. That was the topic she chose for her dissertation on rural schools, after she’d returned to school to get a Ph.D. from UW–Madison’s Department of Education Policy Studies within the School of Education. In …
A joint effort to strengthen communities in rural Green County, a collaboration to reduce cancer among black women, and a partnership to improve health literacy were among the winners of the 2019 Community-University Partnership Awards, presented by UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank on June 26 at Olin House. This year, the School of Education’s Gloria Ladson-Billings …
The Atlantic featured the expertise of UW-Madison’s Nicholas Hillman in an article headlined, “Higher education has become a partisan issue: And university budgets are suffering as a result.” Hillman is an associate professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis (ELPA), and the director of UW-Madison’s Student Success Through Applied Research (SSTAR) …
UW-Madison’s Elizabeth Graue is a part of the “We Care for Dane Kids” team that took second place in the Alliance for the American Dream competition. Graue is the Sorenson Professor with the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and the director of the Center for Research on Early Childhood Education (CRECE). Graue and her …