Cancel Wars: How Universities Can Protect Free Speech, Promote Inclusion, Renew Democracy
March 24, 2023 | By WCER Communications
Many democracies today are experiencing rapid political polarization. This process affects how we think about policy, where we get our information, and how we perceive public institutions. In an upcoming talk, nationally recognized free speech scholar Sigal Ben-Porath will suggest ways that students, faculty, and administrators can support democratic renewal on campus and throughout society.
New Paper Examines Campus Belonging for Student Military, Veterans in STEMM
March 4, 2023 | By William Koehler and Karen Rivedal, WCER Communications
In an extension of researcher Ross Benbow’s WCER-based VETWAYS project, findings from the new paper start to fill a knowledge gap using social capital theory to “explore links between STEMM SSM/V social support and a sense of campus belonging…within 4-year campus communities.”
School of Education announces 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award winners
February 10, 2023
To celebrate alumni excellence across the arts, health, and education, the School of Education has selected three trailblazing UW–Madison alumni to honor with a Distinguished Alumni Award for outstanding contributions to their fields. SoE will honor the recipients Thursday, Feb. 16, between 1 and 3:45 p.m., when each awardee will deliver a public presentation followed by a Q&A in the Education Building’s Wisconsin Idea Room. A reception in Morgridge Commons cia Nwill follow from 3:45 to 5 p.m.
Meet Your Service Unit Member: Christine Olson
January 25, 2023 | By WCER Communications
Christine works in Tech Services doing web design, web accessibility evaluations, and quality assurance testing.
Meet Your Service Unit Member: Brian Maul
January 25, 2023 | By WCER Communications
Brian works in the Business Office Annex as an Administrative Assistant III. He’s part of the Client Services Team, which helps WCER’s research projects with their purchasing and travel needs.
UW–Madison’s Winkle-Wagner Joins Editorial Board of Review of Higher Education
January 25, 2023 | By WCER Communications
RHE serves as the official journal of the Association for the Study of Higher Education
Meet Your Service Unit Member: Adam Chase
January 25, 2023 | By WCER Communications
Adam works in the Business Office as a Post-Award Accountant. He is responsible for financial reporting for federal and non-federal projects, auditing and reconciling all expenditures. For fun, he likes playing Go, an abstract strategy board game.
Apply for IES-Funded Summer Training Opportunities
January 25, 2023 | By WCER Communications
IES is supporting four summer 2023 training institutes that have upcoming application deadlines. Below is more information about each of these offerings, including dates/location, application websites, expectations for the participants, and application deadlines.
CIMER Leader Helps Organize, Present National Mentoring Workshop for Research Universities, Funders, Associations
January 20, 2023 | By Karen Rivedal, WCER Communications
WCER scientist and CIMER Associate Executive Director Melissa McDaniels helped design and deliver a two-day workshop in Washington, DC, aimed at helping the nation’s research universities and associated stakeholders understand how to better implement and account for doctoral student mentorship programs in higher education.
“We know that mentorship education will only be successful at an institution if there is a culture of mentorship created,” McDaniels says. “You have to look at department chairs and academic leaders and deans. You look at funders. What are the institutional mechanisms that have to be in place? We have research about what makes mentorship programs both inclusive and high quality, but oftentimes institutions don’t have accountability mechanisms in place.”
Analytics for Equity Initiative: New Funding for Social, Economic, and Behavioral Scientists
December 20, 2022 | By WCER Communications
The Analytics for Equity Initiative is a new program led by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that is seeking proposals from researchers to use federal data to examine questions of equity, targeted around different agency-specific themes. The goal is for the federal agencies to then use the research to implement equity-focused, evidence-based strategies
WCER Researchers: Upcoming Application Deadlines for Two Training Institutes from IES
December 8, 2022
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IES is supporting two summer 2023 training institutes that have upcoming application deadlines. |
WCER Welcomes, Thanks Director’s Advisory Council Members
November 1, 2022 | By WCER Communications
WCER Director Courtney Bell invites you to join her in offering sincere thanks to the outgoing and continuing members of the Director’s Advisory Council, as well as a warm welcome to the council’s three new members.
Focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Diversity Fest, Diamond
November 1, 2022 | By WCER Communications
Register now for UW–Madison’s annual Diversity Forum , titled “The Power of Remembering. Reclaiming Our Legacies to Imagine New Futures,” and scheduled for Nov. 14–15.
In another compelling DEI event, former UW–Madison education professor John Diamond will deliver AERA’s Brown Lecture online on Nov. 3 from 5–6:30 p.m. CST. Learn more and register here.
Three Ed Scholar Training Opportunities Available
November 1, 2022 | By WCER Communications
Training programs are available for education scholars focused on adaptive interventions, implementation research studies and mentorship of trainees.
Meet Your Service Unit Member: Christine Olson
November 1, 2022 | By WCER Communications
Christine Olson works in Tech Services doing web design, web accessibility evaluations, and quality assurance testing.
