UW-Madison’s Gugerty wins UW System award

John J. Gugerty, a researcher at UW–Madison’s Center for Education and Work, has received a Regents Academic Staff Award from the UW System.

Also receiving a regent’s award is Susan Foxwell, director of research services at UW-Stout. Each award winner will receive $5,000. The awards were presented Friday, April 11, at the UW Board of Regents meeting in Madison.

Gugerty has spent 27 years as an outreach specialist and researcher at the center. He has co-directed many of the center’s projects funded by the federal government. These competitively awarded grants have brought more than $4 million to the university.

In one project, he leads a team that has developed the Wisconsin Advanced Placement Distance Learning Consortium, which works to expand the state’s advanced-placement courses offered via distance learning.

“The consortium levels the playing field of opportunity for students in Wisconsin secondary schools that currently offer few or no AP courses,” he says.

Gugerty also leads a collaborative project to make UW Web sites accessible to people with disabilities.

“I hope to continue to help educators, students, parents and adult service providers grow in their skills and aspirations,” Gugerty says. “In doing so, I will continue to support the visionary directors, supportive supervisors and highly skilled colleagues as they develop skills that will enable them to make an impact on a national scale.”

Gugerty earned his master’s degree at UW–Madison in rehabilitation facilities administration here in 1974. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Holy Cross Seminary in La Crosse.