Education
Marquette Telehealth Accelerator announces grant awardees
The Marquette Telehealth Accelerator announced the awarding of three grants, each worth up to $20,000.
Photo gallery: Dwyane Wade visits Tragil Wade-Johnson Summer Reading Program
Marquette alumnus and NBA legend Dwyane Wade and his sister, Tragil Wade-Johnson, visited the Tragil Wade-Johnson Summer Reading Program at Marquette on Friday, July 21.
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…