A School of Education faculty member’s study on where transgender high school students seek support was recently highlighted by multiple media outlets. The study found transgender students are more likely to seek support from school staff and less likely to seek support from their parents when compared to their cisgender peers. Mollie McQuillan, an assistant professor …
UW–Madison’s Lynda Barry believes that anybody has the ability to draw or make comics. The struggle, says the legendary artist and author, “is putting pen to paper and getting out of your head long enough to make something.” In a recent interview with NPR’s Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Barry, an associate professor of interdisciplinary creativity …
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel utilized the expertise of UW–Madison’s Anthony Hernandez in a recent article reporting on the financial struggles and uncertain future facing Milwaukee’s Alverno College. Alverno, Wisconsin’s first federally-designated Hispanic-serving institution, is confronting a $9 million deficit for the fiscal year and has declared a financial emergency. The article notes that becoming a …
A School of Education faculty member recently offered her expertise on ongoing Title IX lawsuits across the country to a pair of national media outlets. Suzanne Eckes, the Susan S. Engeleiter Chair in Education Law, Policy, and Practice in the UW–Madison School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, spoke about the future …
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction featured an article on its website about the 2024 Play Make Learn Conference, which took place on July 18-19 at UW–Madison’s Memorial Union. The conference, hosted annually by the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction and the office of Professional Learning and Community Education (PLACE), is a …
Shawn Anthony Robinson’s journey to overcoming dyslexia and his award-winning series of graphic novels was spotlighted in a recent story from Wisconsin Public Radio. After struggling to read through his middle and high school years, Robinson was diagnosed with dyslexia before his senior year, the article reports. The diagnosis, Robinson says, was “life changing” because …
UW–Madison’s Nicholas Hillman was recently interviewed by Marketplace for a report about the Biden administration’s newest attempt to relieve student debt. The Marketplace report, headlined “Biden administration tries again to relieve student debt,” looks at President Joe Biden’s debt cancellation plan and discusses the issue of student debt with professionals across the country including Hillman, a professor …
UW–Madison student Phoebe Bacon, a senior pursuing a health promotion and health equity major in the School of Education, is competing in the Olympic Games this week in Paris! This is, in fact, Bacon’s second Olympics as a member of the U.S. swimming team, competing in the women’s 200-meter backstroke. She finished fifth in the …
Nineteen UW–Madison community members were recognized in Madison365’s annual list of “Wisconsin’s Most Influential Asian American Leaders” for 2024, including four who are current and former UW–Madison School of Education students and employees. Madison365, a nonprofit online news publication, has published annual power lists recognizing Wisconsin leaders from different racial and ethnic groups since 2015. …
Sarah Kopp, a UW–Madison student who is majoring in health promotion and health equity (HPHE) in the School of Education, was featured in a recent news story introducing three of the nearly 1,500 students who have been offered UW–Madison scholarships for Summer Term study. Kopp, who received the UW–Madison Undergraduate Scholarship for Summer Study, is …