Arts & Sciences
Marquette partnership reveals how public schools improve when students have a greater say in their education
For many traditional educators, Dr. Julissa Ventura’s path for improving schools sounds like a role reversal: Teachers, learn from your students. Put another way, young people are more likely to excel as students when they feel heard and empowered. That idea is less shocking than it used to be, and well supported by Ventura’s past…
Equipping Wisconsin’s next generation of district leaders
When someone accepts the position of superintendent, they aren’t just taking on a job – they are taking on the educational future of a community.
#Sourdough rhetoric: multisensory media traces that are good enough to eat, Jan. 29
Dr. Ashley M. Beardsley, assistant professor of English and Writing Center director at Western Illinois University, will discuss her hands-on exploration of baking as a feminist rhetorical practice.
On Topic: Tips to make your New Year’s resolution stick
Dr. Lynne Knobloch-Fedders, associate professor of counselor education and counseling psychology, says it’s better to start by making one small, sustainable change and then building it into your daily routine.
‘Conflict and Negotiation Styles: Mine, Yours, Ours,’ with Dr. Alexandra Crampton, Jan. 16
The workshop will be led by Dr. Alexandra Crampton, associate professor of social and cultural sciences in the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences.
Marquette researchers find evidence to explain the maintenance of species diversity and plant species coexistence in tropical forests
Researchers are for the first time able to explain how species diversity is maintained and how species coexist in high-diversity ecosystems, such as tropical forests.
Marquette’s Institute for Women’s Leadership publishes white paper on ‘speaking truth to stigma’
Their gender-related research topics work to break down stigma and encourage others to believe women in their lived and shared experiences.
The impact of the COSMIC program
How a career change program in the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences has transformed lives.
Philosophy Department and Marquette Core Curriculum present ‘Spinoza on The State’s Power for War in The Political Treatise,’ Nov. 22
Stetter will speak on “Spinoza on The State’s Power for War in The Political Treatise.”
Making the city their living textbook
“At the beginning of the semester, I ask students to fully embrace Milwaukee as their new home,” says Dr. Sergio Gonzalez, a Milwaukee native and assistant professor of history. To facilitate that embrace, Gonzalez sends sophomores in his honors course, Engaging the City, onto the streets of Milwaukee to traverse their new home and take…