UW–Madison’s Nick Hillman, a professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, shared his expertise with Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR), the Capital Times, and three other local media outlets in response to the Supreme Court’s recent rejection of President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan. Hillman is an expert in …
School of Education faculty member Brian Burt has been honored by one of his alma maters with an alumni achievement award. Burt was presented with the Neal-Marshall Alumni Club Alumni Achievement Award from Indiana University over the weekend. Burt is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis and director and …
By Laurel White In 2020, less than one percent of graduate-level engineering degrees were awarded to Black men, according to statistics from the Council of Graduate Schools and the American Society for Engineering Education. A new study from School of Education faculty member Brian Burt and his team at Wisconsin’s Equity and Inclusion Laboratory (Wei …
UW–Madison’s Nick Hillman, a professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, shared his expertise with Marketplace and ABC News earlier this month. Hillman is an expert in how finance, policy, and geography shape educational opportunities, and is the director of the university’s Student Success Through Applied Research (SSTAR) Lab. …
By WCER Communications On May 1, in honor of School Principals Day and the 20th anniversary of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), producers of the blog Inside IES Research asked UW−Madison education professors Rich Halverson and Carolyn Kelley to write a guest post describing their WCER project: Comprehensive Assessment of Leadership for Learning (CALL), along with Mark Blitz, project director for CALL …
UW–Madison’s Nick Hillman, a professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, shared his expertise with NBC affiliate WMTV-Ch. 15 recently in its segment, “How the debt ceiling will impact student loans.” Hillman is an expert in how finance, policy, and geography shape educational opportunities, and is the director of …
By Laurel White Three faculty from the School of Education have been honored with prestigious campuswide research awards from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education. Brian Burt, Lesley Bartlett, and Mitchell Nathan are among just 30 faculty from across campus who were chosen to receive a 2023-2024 H.I. Romnes Faculty …
NBC affiliate WMTV recently released a story about the UW–Madison Student Success Through Applied Research (SSTAR) Lab’s work to increase financial aid accessibility for Native students. Nicholas Hillman, who is the director of the SSTAR Lab and a professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, spoke about the SSTAR …
UW–Madison alumnus Brett Nachman was recently awarded a prestigious Spencer Foundation Large Research Grant as the co-principal investigator of a nationwide study of autistic college student success. The grant is for nearly $500,000 over the next three years. Nachman, an assistant professor of adult and lifelong learning at the University of Arkansas, earned his PhD …
By Laurel White Training elementary school teachers in inclusive practices for LGBTQ+ students leads to lower disciplinary rates for all students, according to a new study from UW–Madison School of Education researchers. The study, published in the Journal of School Leadership, evaluated 33 elementary schools in a large, urban, Midwestern school district. Fifteen of those …