March 26, 2020
A team of HMoob (Hmong)* American undergraduates mentored by UW-Madison education researchers has completed the first analysis of University of Wisconsin System student data disaggregated by race and ethnicity for the state’s largest Asian ethnic population. The team finds that except for UW–Oshkosh and UW–Green Bay, UW System enrollment of HMoob Americans is proportionally low and declining, particularly at the state’s flagship UW–Madison campus.
March 25, 2020
UW-Madison’s Omar Poler (Sokaogon Ojibwe) was featured in a Wisconsin State Journal report headlined, “Know Your Madisonian: Bringing Indigenous Perspective to UW–Madison Campus.” As an American Indian Curriculum Services consultant for the School of Education, Poler supports education about and creates learning opportunities regarding First Nations.
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”
March 10, 2020
On Wisconsin magazine recently put the spotlight on the importance of multicultural children’s literature and the important work being conducted by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center. The in-depth On Wisconsin report is headlined, “A New Era for Children’s Literature: The Cooperative Children’s Book Center transforms publishing by championing diversity.”
March 9, 2020
Spectrum News 1 recently showcased Jessica Antonio-Gutierrez, a freshman at UW-Madison who hopes to become a teacher.
March 6, 2020
Pauline Ho received the 2020 Psychological Science Research Grant from the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS). The Ph.D. student with the human development program within the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology aims to better understand how individual and contextual factors interact to chart the course of ethnic and racial identity development of African American students attending predominantly white institutions.
March 5, 2020
UW-Madison’s Shawn Robinson and his newest book were recently featured in a WMTV/Ch. 15 report headlined, “Author writes second book for children with dyslexia after learning to read at 18.” Robinson, a senior research associate with the Wisconsin Equity and Inclusion Lab (Wei LAB), is launching his second book, “Doctor Dyslexia Dude and the Battle for Resilience.”
March 3, 2020
The annual program honors 40 of the most successful and civic-minded young professionals under the age of 40 in the Greater Madison area. Rose, who is the School of Education’s Human Resources Recruitment and Retention Specialist, will be honored with other members of the class at a networking reception on March 4 at The Madison Club.
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.
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.