Bach-Hanson appears on WPR’s ‘The Morning Show’ to discuss rural higher education

March 25, 2020

UW-Madison student Josh Bach-Hanson appeared on Wisconsin Public Radio’s (WPR) “The Morning Show” on March 4 to discuss rural higher education in Wisconsin. With rates of enrollment declining for traditional students across the UW System, many campuses must find ways to adapt to increasingly diverse and non-traditional campus populations.

School of Education’s Herrera, Ledesma are 2020 Bouchet Graduate Honor Society inductees

March 18, 2020

School of Education Ph.D. candidates Nancy Herrera and Dominic J. Ledesma have been selected for the 2020 cohort of the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society’s UW–Madison Chapter. The Bouchet Society provides scholars with a network of peers who exemplify character, leadership, scholarship, service, and advocacy for those who have been traditionally underrepresented in the academy. Induction into the society is both an individual honor and a welcome into this wider network of like-minded scholars.

American Association for Blacks in Higher Education honors dissertation by alum Lee-Johnson

March 12, 2020

UW–Madison alumna Jamila Lee-Johnson received second place honors in the Dissertation of the Year Award competition from the American Association for Blacks in Higher Education. Lee-Johnson earned her Ph.D. from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in 2019. Her dissertation is titled, “I am Becoming":  Understanding  the Experiences of Undergraduate Black women at Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Elected Student Leadership Positions”

McQuillan’s dissertation receives honorable mention recognition from AERA’s Division A

March 9, 2020

The work of UW–Madison's Mollie McQuillan received honorable mention recognition in the 2020 Outstanding Dissertation Award competition being administered by the American Educational Research Association's (AERA) Division A. McQuillan is an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. The dissertation being recognized, which McQuillan completed en route to earning her Ph.D. from Northwestern University, is titled “Beyond Bathrooms: The Educational Policies, Practices, and Health of Gender-Expansive Students.”

Milwaukee public radio profiles UW-Madison alum Stanford Taylor

February 28, 2020

Milwaukee’s public radio, WUWM 89.7-FM, recently profiled UW-Madison alumna Carolyn Stanford Taylor. Among many achievements in Stanford Taylor’s career, she is the first black woman to lead Wisconsin’s Department of Public Instruction. Stanford Taylor earned an undergraduate degree in elementary education in 1978 and a master's from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in 1979.

UW-Madison’s Nachman authors study examining campus climate for autistic LGBTQ students

February 27, 2020

UW-Madison’s Brett Nachman, a doctoral candidate with the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, served as the lead author on a case study article exploring campus climates for autistic LGBTQ college students. The article, which Nachman wrote with Dr. Ryan A. Miller (UNC-Charlotte) and Dr. Edlyn Vallejo Peña (California Lutheran University), was published in the Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership.