By Doug Erickson, University Communications LaVar Charleston, an innovative leader and accomplished researcher with nearly two decades of experience related to diversity, equity and inclusion in higher education, has been named to lead the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s diversity and inclusion efforts. Since June 2019, Charleston has served as the inaugural associate dean for equity, diversity …
Four people with ties to the UW–Madison School of Education are leading a project to further understand and reduce inequalities in higher education among Hmong Americans. The project is one of 15 chosen to receive grants through the through UW–Madison’s Understanding and Reducing Inequalities Initiative. The project, titled “Understanding and reducing inequalities in higher education: Lessons …
Crystal Stonewall, a UW–Madison School of Education alumna and current UW–Madison law student, has been honored by the State Bar of Wisconsin as a 2021 Outstanding Public Interest Law Student of the Year. Stonewall earned her bachelor’s degree in elementary education from the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction in 2019. Explains a story on …
UW–Madison alumnus Pao Lor is the author of a new memoir, titled “Modern Jungles: A Hmong Refugee’s Childhood Story of Survival,” published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. Lor earned his doctorate from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, and currently holds the Patricia Wood Baer Professorship in Education at UW–Green Bay. …
Transgender, two-spirit, and nonbinary (TNB) people have increased risk for mental health concerns, including anxiety, trauma-based distress, depression, self-harm, and suicide. To improve mental health outcomes for these individuals, a project led by the School of Education’s Stephanie Budge seeks to assess whether e-therapy (telehealth) interventions matching TNB clients with TNB therapists makes a positive …
The School of Education’s Diego Román and Lisa M. Barker are working on a project that aims to improve education for Latinx students in rural Wisconsin by training their teachers in how to engage English learners (ELs) in discussion about topics that directly affect local communities. The project, titled “Teaching local socio-scientific issues to Latinx …
By CCWT/WCER Communications Surprising findings from a study funded by the National Science Foundation* about online internships during the COVID-19 pandemic have been released by the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions (CCWT), which is housed in the School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research at UW–Madison. As the pandemic hit the U.S. last spring, conventional wisdom …
Christine Pfund and Jenna Rogers of the School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) are co-investigators on a project that aims to reduce inequality in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medical sciences (STEMM) fields through culturally aware mentor training. The principal investigator for the project is Angela Byars-Winston, a professor in the UW–Madison Department of …
UW–Madison’s Aydin Bal, a professor in the School of Education’s Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education (RPSE), is first author of an article published in the journal Cognition and Instruction that is titled, “Inclusive Future Making: Building a Culturally Responsive Behavioral Support.” Joining Bal as co-authors of the paper are UW–Madison alumni Kemal Afacan and Halil …
UW–Madison’s Brenda Spychalla has been honored with the UW-IT Professionals Lifetime Achievement Award. The award recognizes the continued contributions of a UW–Madison community member whose body of work throughout their entire career has had a significant impact on the success of the university. Spychalla currently serves as the Co-CIO of the School of Education and the co-director …