News from WCER
Meet Your Service Unit Member: Brian Maul
January 25, 2023 | By WCER Communications
Brian works in the Business Office Annex as an Administrative Assistant III. He’s part of the Client Services Team, which helps WCER’s research projects with their purchasing and travel needs.
UW–Madison’s Winkle-Wagner Joins Editorial Board of Review of Higher Education
January 25, 2023 | By WCER Communications
RHE serves as the official journal of the Association for the Study of Higher Education
Meet Your Service Unit Member: Adam Chase
January 25, 2023 | By WCER Communications
Adam works in the Business Office as a Post-Award Accountant. He is responsible for financial reporting for federal and non-federal projects, auditing and reconciling all expenditures. For fun, he likes playing Go, an abstract strategy board game.
Apply for IES-Funded Summer Training Opportunities
January 25, 2023 | By WCER Communications
IES is supporting four summer 2023 training institutes that have upcoming application deadlines. Below is more information about each of these offerings, including dates/location, application websites, expectations for the participants, and application deadlines.
CIMER Leader Helps Organize, Present National Mentoring Workshop for Research Universities, Funders, Associations
January 20, 2023 | By Karen Rivedal, WCER Communications
WCER scientist and CIMER Associate Executive Director Melissa McDaniels helped design and deliver a two-day workshop in Washington, DC, aimed at helping the nation’s research universities and associated stakeholders understand how to better implement and account for doctoral student mentorship programs in higher education.
“We know that mentorship education will only be successful at an institution if there is a culture of mentorship created,” McDaniels says. “You have to look at department chairs and academic leaders and deans. You look at funders. What are the institutional mechanisms that have to be in place? We have research about what makes mentorship programs both inclusive and high quality, but oftentimes institutions don’t have accountability mechanisms in place.”
Analytics for Equity Initiative: New Funding for Social, Economic, and Behavioral Scientists
December 20, 2022 | By WCER Communications
The Analytics for Equity Initiative is a new program led by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that is seeking proposals from researchers to use federal data to examine questions of equity, targeted around different agency-specific themes. The goal is for the federal agencies to then use the research to implement equity-focused, evidence-based strategies
WCER Researchers: Upcoming Application Deadlines for Two Training Institutes from IES
December 8, 2022
| |
IES is supporting two summer 2023 training institutes that have upcoming application deadlines. |
WCER Welcomes, Thanks Director’s Advisory Council Members
November 1, 2022 | By WCER Communications
WCER Director Courtney Bell invites you to join her in offering sincere thanks to the outgoing and continuing members of the Director’s Advisory Council, as well as a warm welcome to the council’s three new members.
Focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Diversity Fest, Diamond
November 1, 2022 | By WCER Communications
Register now for UW–Madison’s annual Diversity Forum , titled “The Power of Remembering. Reclaiming Our Legacies to Imagine New Futures,” and scheduled for Nov. 14–15.
In another compelling DEI event, former UW–Madison education professor John Diamond will deliver AERA’s Brown Lecture online on Nov. 3 from 5–6:30 p.m. CST. Learn more and register here.
Three Ed Scholar Training Opportunities Available
November 1, 2022 | By WCER Communications
Training programs are available for education scholars focused on adaptive interventions, implementation research studies and mentorship of trainees.
Meet Your Service Unit Member: Christine Olson
November 1, 2022 | By WCER Communications
Christine Olson works in Tech Services doing web design, web accessibility evaluations, and quality assurance testing.
Richer Resources Available for Developing Dissemination Plans
November 1, 2022 | By WCER Communications
Improvements detail the type and scope of communications products that can help researchers share project news on campus and off.
Online Talk about Black Mathematical World Talent Edgar J. Edmunds Slated for Nov. 7
November 1, 2022 | By WCER Communications
The Journal for Research in Mathematics Education is sponsoring a live talk by Dr. Sian Zelbo from The Brearley School and Yeshiva University at 11 a.m. CT on Monday, Nov. 7, that is free and open to all. Please register at bit.ly/JRMETalks to receive the link.
MSAN Student Conference Kicks Off Year of Positive Change for Equity Organization
October 25, 2022 | By Karen Rivedal, WCER Communications
Middle and high school students in MSAN Network districts will be invited to participate in an integrated interdisciplinary experience that will affirm their intersecting identities as they explore topics such as implicit bias, race, power, and systems of oppression.
CIMER’s Pfund Co-authors Article on Avoiding Burnout While Mentoring
September 11, 2022 | By Karen Rivedal, WCER Communications
The article begins by explaining how the nature of mentorship contains within it the seeds of possible future burnout, as mentors give their time, attention, and resources to develop others and soon find that demand for their services will tend to increase the better they are at it.
