Arts & Sciences
Faculty and staff honored at annual Employee Anniversary Luncheon
Faculty and staff members from across the university were honored at the annual Employee Anniversary Luncheon on Tuesday, Oct. 28.
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…
Marquette Bookshelf: ‘Embodying the Tradition: Essays in Memory of Joseph Mueller, S.J. (1960-2023)’
The book is edited by Dr. Andrei A. Orlov, professor of theology.
The Power of Reading: Transforming Student Achievement Through Literacy, Dec. 2
Marquette University Law School and the College of Education will host a program on student achievement, with a focus on reading efforts, on Tuesday, Dec. 2, at 12:15 p.m. in Eckstein Hall. The discussion will be led by Alan Borsuk, senior fellow in law and public policy. The program will examine the current state of reading and…
Ethical hacking: Cybersecurity in action with Chirag Malkan
Cybersecurity professionals turn to ethical hacking to protect important systems.
Diving into ‘Dune’: First-time English course focuses on a world 20,000 years in the future
When seniors Leo Ruffolo and Brennan Wills were signing up for fall classes, an English course titled Frank Herbert’s “Dune” caught their attention. Both had read the science fiction novel and thought taking a deeper dive into the storyline and characters would be interesting. “I love ‘Dune.’ It’s one of my favorite books ever, so…
Marquette’s prison-to-college program: How and where it’s making a difference
An idea sparked 10 years ago by a philosophy course blending students from Marquette and the Milwaukee Women’s Correctional Center has burgeoned into a program aimed at nothing short of transforming lives. Supported by $3.2 million in grant funding, including $2 million from the Mellon Foundation, the Education Preparedness Program has brought together 280 incarcerated…
Les Aspin Center semester themes announced
Students can now plan their Aspin journeys around semester-specific academic themes that are designed to deepen their learning, shape special course offerings, and bring alumni and experts right into the classroom.