Kevin Conway
What If…
Illustrations by Robert Neubecker Taylor Thompson was concerned how things would go in her first year as a first-grade teacher in a public elementary school in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. And, in fact, she found teaching during that 2024–2025 school year to be hard work. “Each day is not rainbows and singing and dancing,” she said. But…
Louisiana’s ‘Let Teachers Teach’ Plan Strikes a Chord
Illustrations by Robert Neubecker This is a sidebar to a longer essay, “What if . . . K–12 Education Reform Efforts Focused on Making Teaching Jobs More Doable?“ Louisiana as a leader in education improvement? The idea would have drawn guffaws for many years. The state had some of the weakest K–12 education records in…
Principals Can Play Big Roles in Teacher Success
This is a sidebar to a longer essay, “What if . . . K–12 Education Reform Efforts Focused on Making Teaching Jobs More Doable?“ Illustrations by Robert Neubecker While pay and benefits matter, the research is clear that many teachers who quit their jobs cite low job satisfaction. And many of them attribute this in…
Collecting Posts on Seventh Circuit Day
It was a great privilege for Marquette University Law School to host the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Eckstein Hall earlier this semester (September 25, 2025). The following blog posts form a now-complete series seeking to capture some aspects of the day: Sincere thanks to all—the Court and its staff, those…
New Marquette Law School national survey finds 55% say Department of Justice has filed unjustified cases against Trump’s political opponents
Also: Please note: Complete Poll results and methodology information can be found online at law.marquette.edu/poll MILWAUKEE – A new Marquette Law School Poll national survey finds 55% say the Department of Justice has filed unjustified criminal cases against President Donald Trump’s political opponents, while 45% think the cases are justified. Recent cases have been brought…
New Marquette Law School national survey finds more people favoring Democrats than Republicans in anticipated 2026 vote for Congress and also more Democrats saying they are certain to vote
Please note: Complete Poll results and methodology information can be found online at law.marquette.edu/poll MILWAUKEE —A new Marquette Law School Poll national survey, conducted following the Nov. 5 elections in New Jersey, Virginia, and elsewhere, finds that 49% of registered voters expect to vote for a Democrat and 44% expect to vote for a Republican in…
No Walking Away
How Paying Attention to Correctional Officers Will Help Us Understand the Harms American Incarceration Causes.
The Washington Post wins 2025 Dori J. Maynard Justice Award
Washington Post reporters Dana Hedgpeth, Sari Horwitz, and The Washington Post staff have won the 2025 Dori J. Maynard Justice Award for “Indian Boarding Schools,” a searing five-part series based on an 18-month investigation of the widespread sexual abuse of Native American children by Catholic priests, brothers and sisters. Judges called the entry “haunting,” “beautifully…
Associate vice president for public affairs honored as Community Champion by Near West Side Partners
Rana Altenburg, associate vice president for public affairs, was honored as the first Near West Side Partners’ Community Champion at the neighborhood organization’s 10-year anniversary celebration Wednesday, May 21. The award was presented by President Kimo Ah Yun. NWSP’s Community Champion Award recognizes a person or organization that has consistently advocated for the well-being of…
Good Neighbors
While Marquette University has been part of Milwaukee since 1881, throughout this time, change, too, has been continuous on and around campus. The Law School’s move from Sensenbrenner Hall to the brand-new Eckstein Hall in 2010 may stand out. Yet more recently, within the past year alone, the Law School has seen some changes in…