Rebecca M. Blank, an economist and educator who served in high-level U.S. government and academic positions and, for nine years, as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, died of cancer on Friday, Feb. 17 near Madison. She was 67. “Chancellor Blank was a brilliant and pragmatic leader whose impact on this campus will be felt …
UW–Madison’s Global Higher Education (GHE) Master’s Degree Program is celebrating its 10th anniversary during the current academic year. The program, housed in the School of Education’s highly ranked Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis (ELPA), focuses on training future generations of professionals and scholars and is known for its family-like, collaborative learning community that …
UW–Madison’s Global Higher Education (GHE) Master’s Degree Program is celebrating its 10th anniversary during the current academic year. The program, housed in the School of Education’s highly ranked Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, focuses on training future generations of professionals and scholars and is known for its family-like, collaborative learning community that utilizes …
The Wisconsin Union Directorate is hosting a screening of Kevin Shaw’s 2022 film, “Let the Little Light Shine,” on Wednesday, Feb. 22, at 6:30 p.m., as part of the Havens Wright Center’s 2023 Social Cinema Series. The film will be followed by a discussion with Shaw and UW–Madison’s Erica Turner, an associate professor in the …
UW–Madison faculty and staff who are past winners of a School of Education Seed Grant have published a paper about their important work, titled “Learning how to teach Indigenous history and culture,” in the December 2022 edition of The Learning Professional. The paper had its genesis several years ago as part of the School of …
U.S. News & World Report ranked the UW–Madison School of Education’s online master’s degree programs among the very best in the nation. According to the news organization’s 2023 Best Online Master’s in Education Programs rankings released in January, UW–Madison is No. 4. “These rankings are another example of the range of high-quality programs across our …
By Kari Dickinson First they run the stairs and work their quads and core. Then they move on to a ball passing drill called the “spiderweb.” You might think this is an athletic team warming up for practice. But these are not athletes, they are actors — and these kinds of drills have become routine …
The UW–Madison Division of the Arts and the Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives (OMAI) welcome writer, performer, and playwright Porsha Olayiwola to campus Feb. 24 to March 4 through the Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program. An academic year-long partnership between the Division of the Arts and OMAI, the collaboration presents a series of short-term residencies with interdisciplinary artists. …
UW–Madison alumna Ethel Radmer has just published her 10th book, “Fields Beyond Your Sight.” Radmer earned a bachelor’s degree in occupational therapy from the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology in 1957. “Fields Beyond Your Sight” explores the idea of big bangs happening in a cycle across billions of years. This raises the question, “What …
Two faculty from the UW–Madison School of Education are heading Asia to offer “master classes” on an innovative research methodology developed at UW–Madison. In a series of seven workshops and lectures across Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Kuala Lumpur, David Williamson Shaffer, the Sears Bascom Professor of Learning Analytics in the Department of Educational …