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
By Michael Vazquez, graduate assistant in the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion 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. When she first got into graduate school she was focused on culturally responsive teaching and cultural sustaining pedagogy. One day, […]
U.S. Department of Education grant will help expedite training of diverse school counselors
By Jack Goods, Comm ’17 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 […]
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 […]
A message from the dean of the College of Education
Dear alumni and friends, We in the College of Education are blessed with faculty, staff, students and community members driven to create a positive ripple effect throughout our world. In line with Marquette’s Catholic, Jesuit mission, our work focuses on developing educators who are prepared to go and Be The Difference in their communities, schools […]
The new and growing ed studies major
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’
By Jack Goods, communication specialist in the Office of University Relations 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 […]
Entangled Air: Haggerty Museum of Art combines art and science in new exhibition
From ankle joint pain to digital archives: Six participating faculty research projects funded through Office of the Provost
By Katie Darragh, communication intern in the Office of University Relations at Marquette University To provide non-tenure-track faculty access to funds for research and scholarship, the Office of the Provost annually allocates $10,000 to be distributed to full-time participating faculty for research activities during the 2022-23 academic year. These funds are the result of the […]