UW-Madison’s LaVar Charleston will be delivering a keynote address at the 2020 High Impact Practices (HIPS) in the States Conference, which is being hosted by Texas A&M University Feb. 18-21. Charleston is the School of Education’s associate dean for equity, diversity, and inclusion. In this role, he provides leadership to faculty, staff, and students in …
By Tod Pritchard Thanks to the generosity of alumni John and Tashia Morgridge, UW–Madison has announced a new $70 million matching opportunity to support faculty recruitment and retention. The match will be available to donors who would like to establish or enhance an endowed professorship or chair fund. An endowed professorship or chair distributes income annually …
From UW–Madison Graduate School communications Nora Smith has degrees from two land-grant universities (Montana State and UW–Madison) as well as Harvard Divinity School (MTS ’94). She earned her Ph.D. from the UW–Madison School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in 2004. Smith has worked in a variety of administrative and instructional roles …
UW-Madison’s Matt Hora collaborated with students Rena Yehuda Newman, Robert Hemp, Jasmine Brandon, and Yi-Jung Wu to write and publish a paper titled “Reframing student employability: From commodifying the self to supporting the student, worker, and societal well-being.” Hora is a research scientist with the School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research and the director of …
The School of Education’s Erica Halverson and Kate Vieira are two of 13 faculty members from across the UW-Madison campus to receive a 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award Halverson, a professor with the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, received a Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award Vieira, an associate professor also with the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, received …
UW-Madison’s David Bell recently received the National Achievement Award for Athletic Trainers from the Pediatric Research in Sports Medicine Society (PRiSM). Bell is a national leader in examining the risks associated with sports specialization and youth athletics. He is an associate professor with the Department of Kinesiology‘s athletic training program, and director of the Wisconsin Injury in …
UW-Madison’s Division of the Arts welcomes Ben Barson and Gizelxanath Rodriguez as the spring 2020 Interdisciplinary Artists-in-Residence. Both Barson and Roodriguez are musicians, artivists (artists and activists), environmentalists, and co-founders of the Afro Yaqui Music Collective. Together, they will teach the course “Artivism: Intercultural Solidarity & Decolonizing Performance.” Students will investigate the theory, practice, multidisciplinary, and intercultural …
The School of Education’s Dance Department is hosting its annual faculty concert Feb. 6-8 and Feb. 13-15 at the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space, Lathrop Hall. The concert will feature the work of guest artist Seán Curran, who makes dance “with the sharp intelligence of a conceptualist (Boston Globe)” that is the “equivalent of a night of invigorating …
Li-Chiao-Ping Dance (LCPD) is presenting “Dancing the Chazen,” the fourth and fifth events in the 2019-20 series “7DaysDancing.” “7DaysDancing” is a seven-part program of free, live art experiences aiming to activate community spaces in new, inventive, and inviting ways. This series features site-specific works utilizing the UW-Madison’s Chazen Museum of Art, meant to guide the …
By Katie Stenz, WIDA Educational tools and resources for assessing a small but important group of students, multilingual learners challenged with the most significant cognitive disabilities, now will become reality thanks to a U.S. Department of Education grant worth nearly $4 million. The Advancing Alternate English Language Learning Assessment (ALTELLA): Alternate Assessment Redesign project is …