School of Education alumnus David J. O’Connor is a recipient of a 2022 Forward Award from the Wisconsin Alumni Foundation. The Forward Award acknowledges rising stars in various fields who exemplify the Wisconsin Idea through an emphasis on service, discovery, and progress. Young alumni within 15 years of graduation who have demonstrated exceptional early-career achievement …
UW–Madison’s Paris Wicker received a prestigious Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, which will allow her to further her work in studying the well-being of Black and Indigenous college students. “This is a dream project for me,” says Wicker, who has been determined to explore “who gets well in higher education and under what conditions” after working …
The Summer 2022 edition of Learning Connections, a magazine for alumni and friends of the UW–Madison School of Education, is now posted online. This latest issue centers on “Rising to the Challenge.” The nation is divided on a range of topics and ongoing divisions are making it difficult to solve problems. In this environment, School of …
The University of Michigan School of Education magazine published a profile of UW–Madison’s Brian Burt in a story spotlighting the school’s inaugural alumni award winners. Burt, who received an Emerging Leader Alumni Award, is currently an associate professor in the UW–Madison School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. He earned his PhD from the University of Michigan in …
Three individuals with ties to the UW–Madison School of Education have been named to the fifth cohort of Morgridge Fellows. They are: The 14 fellows — from across the campus community — were selected through a juried process to participate in a year-long learning community designed to further institutionalize and support community-engaged scholarship. Community-engaged scholarship is defined …
UW–Madison student Janel Anderson has been selected to attend the Philosophical Perspectives on Care Institute from July 12 – 29 at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Anderson is a PhD student in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis (ELPA). The institute, which has been made possible in part by a major grant from the …
The UW–Madison School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis (ELPA) hosted a festschrift on June 3 to honor longtime faculty members Julie Mead and Julie Underwood (“the Julies”) on the occasion of their retirements. A festschrift is a collection of work by different authors presented in honor of a scholar. Instead of …
By Laurel White One of the most highly respected education journals in the country has released a special issue this summer, co-edited by a UW-Madison School of Education faculty member, dedicated to research about the experiences of transgender elementary and high school students. The special issue of the journal Educational Researcher, titled “Trans Studies in K12 Education,” is aimed …
UW–Madison’s Erin Gill was featured in a blog series from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) that is showcasing IES-funded education researchers and fellows that are making significant contributions to education research, policy, and practice. Gill is a PhD student in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis and a predoctoral fellow with the IES-funded Interdisciplinary …
UW–Madison Chief Diversity Officer and School of Education alumnus LaVar J. Charleston joined with his wife, Sherri Ann Charleston, chief diversity and inclusion officer at Harvard University, on the “Black Like Me with Dr. Alex Gee” podcast recently for a discussion about the evolution of the chief diversity officer position in higher education. LaVar Charleston …