Courtney Bell stepped into her new role as director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), which is housed in the School of Education, on July 1. She joined her new colleagues at UW–Madison remotely, as she and most of WCER’s researchers and staff have been working since mid-March 2020. Yet she has managed …
During the course of the academic year, the School of Education is sharing Q&As completed by our newest faculty members in an effort to introduce them to our campus and School of Education communities. Here, we introduced Baron Kelly, who joined the School as a faculty member prior to the start of the fall semester. …
Hybrid learning. Masks. Physical distancing. COVID-19 testing. When the fall 2020 semester kicked off at UW–Madison on Sept. 2, everyone realized it would be unlike any that had come before. But our School of Education students remained upbeat — and proved to be just as driven and inspiring as always. Prior to the start of …
Dear Friends: Since the onset of the pandemic in March 2020, it’s no secret that our School of Education has faced challenges few of us could have envisioned. But in a year that was difficult for so many across the world, sometimes you have no choice but to roll with the punches. When UW–Madison canceled …
In an effort to bolster support for students experiencing financial hardship due to the COVID-19 crisis, the UW–Madison School of Education established the Bridge to Success scholarship program. The first round of applications, for students taking Summer Term courses, supported 374 scholars. These scholarships were funded via a legacy gift to the School that was …
Ask Li-Ching Ho about her background and research interests, and it’s easy to start thinking of her as an expert in “global education.” Similarly, it doesn’t take long to understand why she was named co-director of the UW–Madison School of Education’s new Global Engagement Office in June 2019. Ho, who is an associate professor with …
Even after UW–Madison announced March 11 that it planned to halt face-to-face classes immediately following spring break — from March 23, when students were set to return to campus, through at least April 10 — few immediately grasped the magnitude of the disruption that the COVID-19 virus would bring. In an effort to start planning …
Dear friends: When the spring semester got underway in January, I was looking forward to so many different things. In particular, I was already spending a good deal of time preparing for an announcement and event set for April 2 that was to kick off an ambitious and exciting new initiative that’s designed to dramatically …
An op-ed from Jerlando Jackson was published by Cuma Management on Jan. 13 and it examines the recent influx of chief diversity officer (CDO) positions, and the challenges they face. Jackson is the Vilas Distinguished Professor of Higher Education and the chair of the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. He is …
The National Academy of Education (NAEd) announced the recipients of its 2020 NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Awards in a news release posted on Wednesday, June 10. And once again, scholars with UW–Madison’s School of Education were well represented in this annual announcement. Qing Liu, Huimin Wang, and Choua P. Xiong — each of them PhD candidates with the Department …