UW–Madison has provided faculty and instructors with tools to prepare to teach their classes using alternative methods, many involving online instruction.
Jordan, a groundbreaking cancer researcher, and Moore, a pioneer in the field of contemporary distance education, will be awarded honorary doctoral degrees during the winter 2020 commencement ceremonies in December.
Derek Kindle, director of the Office of Student Financial Aid since 2016, will become vice provost for enrollment management. He has more than 18 years of experience in higher education and is active in national organizations.
Every five years, academic deans and directors undergo a comprehensive review to assess their academic and administrative leadership and performance in such areas as external relations and resource management. This year, a review is underway for School of Education Dean Diana Hess.
They’ve taught courses on urban geography, advanced Japanese, botany, contemporary moral issues and more, but these 15 graduate students all have one thing in common: excellence as teaching assistants. Meet the honorees of this year’s Campus-wide Teaching Assistant Awards.
Hundreds of people attended events last fall related to the “Our Shared Future” heritage marker, part of an effort to educate the campus on the Ho-Chunk Nation and the history it shares with UW–Madison. The spring semester will emphasize incorporating the message in the university’s teaching and learning.
Heather Daniels will be UW–Madison’s next secretary of the faculty. She will start Feb. 11, bringing with her a wealth of experience in shared governance.
This year’s “Bay Tour” is May 11–15 and will include experiences along the shores of Green Bay and Lake Michigan, with stops at the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, Door County, and other specially chosen sites along the way.
In October, Law School Dean Margaret Raymond announced that she would step aside and return to the faculty. Former Letters & Science Dean Karl Scholz left the position when he became provost in August.
The vice provost for enrollment management provides leadership in planning, developing, executing and assessing a strategic undergraduate enrollment management plan for the university and is responsible for organizing and creating a vision for the Division of Enrollment Management.
Established in 1953, the Marshall Scholarship Program gives high achieving young Americans the opportunity to study at the graduate level at any university in the United Kingdom. The program was created to honor the ideals of the Marshall Plan.
Prenicia Clifton, a UW–Madison alumna who works in the Division of Continuing Studies, calls her annual "Songs for Hope" concert a holiday gift to the community.
“To be a finalist is truly remarkable, and we congratulate Claire, Lauren and Kevin on this impressive accomplishment and on all they’ve achieved,” says UW–Madison Provost John Karl Scholz.
“I love this program and I love the work we all do here together,” says Gail Ford. “We are going to be the premier college access program for student success in the country if I have anything to say about it.”
The average time to complete their degree for 2018-19 bachelor’s degree recipients was 3.96 elapsed calendar years, the lowest since the university began actively tracking the measure in the 1980s and the first time the number has dropped below four years.
The promise covers four years of tuition and segregated fees for any incoming freshman who is a Wisconsin resident and whose family’s annual household adjusted gross income is $58,000 or less.
Kelley Harris, an experienced scientist, teacher, advisor and administrator, will lead UW–Madison’s largest centralized academic planning and decision-making resource for students who are exploring, undecided, and in transition.
Students majoring in data science will learn to apply computational, statistical, and mathematical methods to data in order to solve real-world problems.