The 2023 Department of Educational Policy Studies (EPS) Conference will center on the theme of “Social Justice and Education.” This annual event looks at equity and justice within the field of education. This year, the conference will explore the complex and contradictory ways that education can simultaneously create, exacerbate, and undermine structures of oppression. How …
By Laurel White Students who are ranked as less capable than their peers in a classroom setting are more likely to develop symptoms of depression than their highly-ranked peers, according to a new study co-authored by a UW–Madison School of Education faculty member. The study used data about student mental health gathered by the National …
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 …
By Kari Dickinson “Fences,” August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play about the African American experience, is University Theatre’s newest production, opening March 1. The play, directed by UW–Madison Professor Baron Kelly, tells the story of Troy Maxson, a former star of the Negro Baseball League who toils as a garbage man in …
By Heather Harris, Center for Healthy Minds Approaching the three-year anniversary of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many can attest to the mental health challenges that came with the sudden changes to everyday life as the disease took hold. In schools, teachers and support staff were forced to revamp lesson plans for virtual and …
The UW–Madison Dance Department and Professor Chris Walker are delighted to present “Moonshine,” on Friday, Feb. 24, at 3:30 p.m. in the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space, Lathrop Hall (1050 University Avenue). This free event is a celebration of Black History Month, with live music, contemporary theater, and dance performances including West African, Afro-Caribbean, and Hip-Hop …
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 …