By WCER Communications An inaugural research brief from WCER Principal Investigator Xueli Wang’s NSF-funded study of change and innovation in technical education finds institutions in the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) moved rapidly in response to the pandemic, revamping services and instructional practices to holistically serve students and meet their critical needs. These supports include food, …
The UW–Madison Division of the Arts’ Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) Committee is pleased to announce the launch of a new funding opportunity called the Artivism Student Action Program (ASAP). Available to UW–Madison students in any year or major of study, ASAP was developed in response to students’ desires to use politically engaged art to bring about …
Two current students and a recent graduate of an innovative UW–Madison special education teacher preparation program received the unique opportunity to meet and speak with U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona during a campus visit Monday, Sept. 20. “I don’t foresee myself going into politics, so an opportunity like this will probably never come up …
The University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Dorothy Farrar Edwards is a co-author of a study released Monday, Sept. 20, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that found an optimal time for intensive rehabilitation of arm and hand use after a stroke. It’s estimated that 750,000 new strokes occur each year in the United States …
By Ila Schrecker At the start of the pandemic, Keith Kaziak found an unusual inspiration for a new sculpture. The UW–Madison art graduate student and sculptor had to clear out of his studio in March 2020 and work from his spare bedroom. “We were ordering a lot of orders through Amazon, and I began collecting …
The Office of Child Care and Family Resources (OCCFR) at UW–Madison has received a Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) federal grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Cigdem Unal, the director of OCCFR, is the author and principal investigator on the grant, which is for $875,828 over a four-year cycle. The purpose of the …
The woodblock print on display in the lobby of the Department of Theatre and Drama’s Ronald E. Mitchell Theatre shows a simple scene — a man and a woman in a bamboo thicket. They represent the characters of the husband and wife in “Rashomon,” the landmark 1950 film by Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. In the …
UW–Madison’s John Baldacchino has published a symposium special edition for the journal Educational Theory, focused on “Education’s Autonomy.” Baldacchino is a professor of art and education in the School of Education’s Art Department. Baldacchino organized and edited this special edition with Doron Yosef Hassidim (Lakehead University), with whom he wrote an introduction that is titled, “Education’s …
Jerlando F. L. Jackson was recently appointed to the Rupple-Bascom Professorship by UW–Madison Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs John Karl Scholz. Jackson chairs the School of Education’s highly regarded Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, and is the director and chief research scientist of Wisconsin’s Equity and Inclusion Laboratory (Wei LAB). “I’m thrilled that Professor …
UW–Madison’s Amy Claessens is a co-author of a new paper published in the Educational Researcher that utilizes classroom observations in a large urban school district to better examine kindergarten and kids’ experiences. Claessens is the Gulbrandsen Distinguished Chair in Early Education and an associate professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies. “An important finding …