News from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Some 1,400 Milwaukee-area high school students visited UWM over five days recently, with the goal of demystifying college and empowering students to see themselves as future college graduates.
Honored were the M³ initiative with Milwaukee Public Schools and Milwaukee Area Technical College and FlexRide Milwaukee, a UWM effort with the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission and MobiliSE.
A partnership between UWM and MPS is improving math teaching, learning and leadership in a dozen schools.
UWM has joined with Children’s Wisconsin in a podcast to help improve the lives of children and families with complex challenges.
The Story Cart project by the Center for 21st Century Studies brought two famous visitors to the Children’s Learning Center to take part in the “Teach a Kid to Vote Challenge.”
The forum is affiliated with UWM’s “That Unfinished Work: Collecting Histories of Ordinary People” project, which uses storytelling methodology to convey the voices of Milwaukee citizens, and with the “Climates of Inequality” international traveling exhibit currently on display at the Milwaukee County Historical Society.
Kevin Kuschel’s roots run deep on the south side of Milwaukee, making him a good fit for his new position as executive director of the Clarke Square Neighborhood Initiative.
The works of 19 alumni and one current student are being screened at this year’s festival, as are films created by numerous faculty members too.
On Monday, the UWM planetarium will host a viewing party. And all this semester, it will host third-graders to learn about space and the solar system.
The Bucks’ in-game music coordinator, DJ Shawna, accompanied by Bango the mascot, quizzed students about voting in a lighthearted video posted to the team’s community service social media channels.
