Natalie Zervou received the First Book Program award through the Center of the Humanities at UW-Madison to complete her manuscript “Choreographing the Greek Crisis: Performing National Identity in the Age of Austerity.” This award provides support to junior faculty in the humanities so that they may complete their manuscript projects. Zervou is an assistant professor with …
Alexander earned his Ph.D. from the UW-Madison School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in 1996. Alexander was previously serving as the president and chancellor of Louisiana State University. He was announced as Oregon State’s 15th president on Dec. 13 at a meeting of the OSU Board of Trustees, which voted unanimously …
UW–Madison’s School of Education put the spotlight on its latest class of graduates by hosting its annual Pre-Commencement Celebration on Sunday morning, Dec. 15, at the Gordon Dining and Event Center. Prior to heading over to the Kohl Center to walk across the stage at the university’s Winter 2019 Commencement ceremony, students from the School …
We hear a lot about the challenges of rural education: declining enrollment, limited resources and funding, difficulty recruiting teachers and keeping them. And at UW-Madison’s Rural Education Research & Implementation Center (RERIC), good work is being done to improve educational outcomes in the state’s distant, sometimes forgotten classrooms. But on a recent day in November, the narrative …
Jo Ann Carr, director emerita of the School of Education’s Media, Education Resources, and Information Technology (MERIT), has recently published “Such Anxious Hours: Wisconsin Women’s Voices from the Civil War,” with the University of Wisconsin Press. Carr provides a chronicle of Civil War Wisconsin by placing the words of eight Wisconsin women in the national, state, and local context of …
The 2019 UW-Madison Glass Lab Holiday Sale will be held Dec. 14-15, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Art Lofts at 111 N Frances St. The Glass Lab is a part of the Art Department, which is housed within the School of Education. The public is welcome to attend and are invited to watch live glassblowing …
The work of UW–Madison’s Jerry Jordan will be showcased at the Overture Center Dec. 10 through March 1. Jordan, a recruitment and retention specialist with the School of Education’s Student Diversity Programs Office, will have his paintings showcased in Gallery II in an exhibition titled, “Human Identity Portrait Stories.” A preview explains: “Natalie Ergas, Yongchul …
On Nov. 11, faculty and graduate students from UW-Madison, Lingnan University, and Peking University, among scholars from other institutions, gathered at the Lingnan-Peking-Wisconsin Education Forum in Hong Kong to discuss higher education, talent training, and employment of global bay areas. The forum, co-organized by UW-Madison, Lingnan University, Peking University, and the Asia Pacific Higher Education …
UW-Madison’s Julie Mead was named the vice president of the Education Law Association (ELA) at the organization’s annual conference on Nov. 13-16 in Norfolk, Virginia. Mead is the School of Education’s associate dean for education, and a professor with the School’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. Her research focuses on topics related to the legal aspects …
A new research project focused on the experience of undergraduate military service members and veterans enrolled in Wisconsin universities has recently been launched at the Wisconsin Center for Research Education (WCER), part of UW-Madison’s School of Education. The Veteran Education to Workforce Affinity and Success Study (VETWAYS), a three-year $556,000 project funded by the National Science Foundation, will seek …