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Virtual tutoring program celebrates two years of helping students

By Kathy QuirkMay 16, 2022Business & World AffairsEducation

Virtual tutoring program celebrates two years of helping students

By Kathy QuirkMay 16, 2022Business & World AffairsEducation

Megan Tervoort is one of the hundreds of elementary and high school students who have benefited from a UWM effort started amid the pandemic shutdown to help students struggling with online classes.

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Support called crucial for first-generation students

By Kathy QuirkSeptember 27, 2021Business & World AffairsEducation

A one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t work when it comes to supporting first-generation college students, according to Robert and Hope Longwell-Grice. They’re published a book that explains why.

Experts offer tips for getting children ready for school

By Kathy QuirkAugust 23, 2021Business & World AffairsEducation

After a mostly virtual school year last year, back-to-school season feels very different this fall. So what should parents do to prepare their children? UWM experts offer some tips.

Conference focuses on encouraging teachers of color

By John SchumacherJuly 28, 2021Business & World AffairsEducation

Keynote speaker for “Walking in Our Shoes: Understanding the Perspectives of Teachers of Color” is Lynnette Mawhinney, award winning author, advocate and professor at Rutgers University.

Conference focuses on encouraging teachers of color

By Kathy QuirkJuly 27, 2021Business & World AffairsEducation

Keynote speaker for “Walking in Our Shoes: Understanding the Perspectives of Teachers of Color” is Lynnette Mawhinney, award winning author, advocate and professor at Rutgers University.

Student entrepreneurs win seed funding in New Ventures competition

By Laura OttoMay 24, 2021Business & World AffairsEducation

Winners of the New Ventures Business Plan Competition hosted by UWM’s Lubar School of Business include a tool handle to aid female do-it-yourselfers, a 360-degree-view digital product and a company that helps women find their path in life.

Elementary teacher finds new career as award-winning school librarian

By Kathy QuirkJanuary 19, 2021Business & World AffairsEducation

When Sarah Siver’s elementary school in Sparta lost its librarian a year few years ago, the third-grade teacher was concerned. Utilizing a new UWM pathway to librarianship, she found a way to help.

Amid pandemic, grads of online learning program put skills to use immediately

By Kathy QuirkNovember 17, 2020Business & World AffairsEducation

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

By Kathy QuirkNovember 10, 2020Business & World AffairsEducation

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.

Alum finds her fit running Girls on the Run

By Kathy QuirkJuly 16, 2020Business & World AffairsEducation

UWM grad Tina Jones has been with Girls on the Run since 2012, helping the organization expand from 200 girls to more than 2,000 in southeastern Wisconsin. She is now executive director.

UWM students help youngsters by tutoring online

By Kathy QuirkMay 7, 2020Business & World AffairsEducation

Even as they are working on their own online classes, Alissa Ramczyk and some three dozen other UWM students are helping kindergarten through 12th grade students with theirs, part of a statewide tutoring effort.

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