Education
Hard Lessons: addressing the national teacher shortage, May 2
Civic Dialogues will host a discussion on America’s teacher shortage featuring a panel of educators from the Marquette and Milwaukee communities on Tuesday, May 2, from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the AMU Lunda Room. Snacks and light refreshments will be provided. Register online. The panel will consist of:
The dean down the hall
What happened when faculty couple Dean Heidi Bostic and Dr. Stephen Pluháček traded their Milwaukee home for a campus apartment, piloting the idea of faculty living on campus to support students in their daily lives?
We Are All Marquette: Meet Blake O’Neal Turner, Marquette’s 2022-23 Mitchem Fellow
Blake O’Neal Turner, Marquette’s 2022-23 Mitchem Fellow, is working to disrupt the racial inequities that are prevalent in the field of mathematics.
U.S. Department of Education grant will help expedite training of diverse school counselors
There’s a stark diversity gap between school counselors in Wisconsin and the students they serve. A largely white pool of workers is far from representative of the demographics of many schools throughout the state. That fact can create a barrier for students seeking help. “Some recent research suggests that when students are able to access…
Strengthening the teacher workforce program, April 26
The Lubar Center for Public Policy Research and Civic Education and the College of Education will co-host a program on strengthening the teacher workforce on Wednesday, April 26, from 8:15 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. in Eckstein Hall. Register online to attend. Michael Hansen, the Herman and George R. Brown Chair in Governance Studies at…
Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology’s 22nd Annual Diversity Gala, May 6
The students of the Department of Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology invite you to the 22nd Annual Diversity Gala on Saturday, May 6, to help support the CECP Graduate Student Organization’s Diversity Scholarship. The event will be held from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the AMU Monaghan Ballrooms. Register online before Saturday, April 29, to…
The new and growing ed studies major
The Educational Studies program offers Marquette students a nontraditional pathway – one related to education, but beyond the classroom. Graduates of the program become guidance counselors, psychologists, nonprofit administrators — and take the plunge into graduate school.
Leaders speak on equity and excellence in education
On Thursday, Feb. 23, a panel of five educational leaders met in Marquette’s Sensenbrenner Hall to discuss the barriers education still faces when it comes to equity, as well as what those at Marquette are trying to do about it. Taking part in the panel, which was moderated by Dr. Heidi Bostic, dean of the…
Tragil Wade-Johnson Summer Reading Program works to combat ‘summer slide’
It’s a hard truth teachers across the country face annually. When students file into classrooms for the first day of school each fall, many return with achievement levels lower than what they reached at the end of the previous year. The phenomenon is known as the summer slide, common among students from low-income families. Mary…
Marquette faculty and staff research grants from October/November 2022
Marquette University’s Office of Research and Sponsored Programs has announced the following research grants awarded to university faculty and staff in October/November 2022. A Digital Storytelling Intervention to Promote the Health of African American Family Caregivers $50,000 – The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation Sociocultural and Regulatory Implications of Direct and Indirect Potable Water Reuse…