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| The 2008 Wisconsin Idea Leadership Academy conference, "Strategies for Doubling Student Performance," is scheduled for July 7-10, 2008, again at the Fluno Center on the UW-Madison campus. Registration for the conference is now open; click here to access the form. Presentations from the 2007 conference are available for viewing. |
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Congratulations to Julie Mead on her promotion to full professor and to Richard Halverson on his promotion to associate professor with tenure.
The American Educational Research Association bestowed its 2008 Palmer O. Johnson Award on ELPA Professor Geoffrey Borman for the article, “Final Reading Outcomes of the National Randomized Field Trial of Success for All” (2007). The Award recognizes the most outstanding article of the year appearing in an AERA-sponsored journal. Read more. Professor Borman also received the AERA Publications Committee Award for Outstanding Participation in Reviewing Submissions for Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, his fourth such award as a peer reviewer for AERA journals.
ELPA staff member Sue Reis was recognized April 11 with a Distinguished Service Award at a luncheon sponsored by the Dean. Sue has served the University for more than 30 years and, in her 13th year with ELPA, is the Department's senior staffer. The Department congratulates and thanks Sue for her dedication!
Professor Colleen Capper is one of just 200 triathletes chosen nationally to compete in the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii in October, an effort which she's dedicating to raising funds for the Gay Straight Alliance for Safe Schools (GSAFE), which has also named her Educator of the Year for 2008. See her April 17 TV interview on the triathalon here.
Emeritus professor Donald J. McIsaac, Jr. is again reporting for service, this time for the American Statistical Association as organizing chair of the 2008 Quality & Productivity Research Conference June 4-6 at the Pyle Center on the UW campus.
Professor Julie Mead's new course, Legal Rights and Responsibilities for Teachers, debuts in Fall of 2008 as a 502 workshop which addresses the legal aspects of the work of teachers and other public school employees. The course is designed for undergraduate students training to be teachers and other school personnel. For more information, click here. With space limited, early registration is encouraged.
ELPA Professor and WISCAPE Scholar Jennifer Delaney has been selected to participate in the 2008 Houston Higher Education Finance Roundtable on May 18-21. Read more.
No GRE for master’s degree admission. Applicants will not be required to submit Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores for consideration, through the November 2009 application deadline.
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The 2008 UW International Education Conference, cosponsored with the Wisconsin Council on the Social Studies, took place March 31-April 1, 2008 at the Marriott–Madison West around the theme of “Planning for Our World: Our Dreams and Our Actions.” Read more. |
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