Nursing students offered tuition stipend
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee nursing student are being offered a $500 tuition stipend for the spring semester if they help out in a health care setting during the university’s winter break.
Kathy Quirk
Amid pandemic, grads of online learning program put skills to use immediately
Most students anticipate gradually putting their knowledge to work after they leave the university. However, four students who graduated in May from UWM found they needed to use everything they learned about online learning, leading and advising immediately.
Good school culture crucial for closing achievement gap
Improving the professional culture of Wisconsin schools is critical for improving the achievement gap between students of color and white students. That’s the finding of a recently completed report from the Wisconsin Educator Effectiveness Research Partnership. Curtis Jones, director of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Office of Socially Responsible Evaluation in Education, led the three-year study […]
UWM joins MATC, Mount Mary to improve nutrition education
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee Area Technical College and Mount Mary University are combining efforts to improve and expand access to nutrition and dietetics education, with a special emphasis on diversifying the workforce. The three institutions recently received a $30,000 Higher Education Challenge Planning Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to plan pathways for […]
Good school culture crucial for closing achievement gap
A study by UWM researchers found that schools with a strong professional culture had smaller gaps in achievement between white students and students of color.
UWM joins effort to improve nutrition education
UWM, Milwaukee Area Technical College and Mount Mary University are combining efforts to improve and expand access to nutrition and dietetics education, with a special emphasis on diversifying the workforce.
Festival of Books set to continue Nov. 6 and 7
The Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books will continue its longstanding tradition, but virtually and in a more limited way this year.
Roberto Hernández Center celebrating 50 years at UWM
The Oct. 22 event will bring together the past, present and future of the center and the Latinx community in Milwaukee. As such, “El Pasado, El Presente y El Futuro” is the theme of the celebration.
Supply drive helps schools during difficult times
This is the fourth year the African Diaspora Council, which includes 240 Black faculty, staff, retirees and alumni of UWM, and the police department have held a drive for LaFollette. Response was so strong this year that enough supplies were available to also donate to Hopkins-Lloyd.
UWM hosting early voting site Oct. 20 to 30
UWM is once again serving as an early voting site for the Nov. 3 general election. Any City of Milwaukee resident can register and vote weekdays in the UWM Student Union from Oct. 20 to 30.