by Diane Ravitch | Sep 8, 2012 | Videos
In her Academy Evening talk Diane Ravitch, the “best living historian of education” (Washington Post) and America’s “soberest, most history-minded education expert” (Wall Street Journal), gives us one of the best informed analyses of the...
by Susan Ellis Weismer | Sep 8, 2012 | Videos
In this Academy Evening talk Susan Ellis Weismer, a UW–Madison professor of communicative disorders, takes parents and caregivers through the stages of child language development. Weismer also shares comparisons among typically developing children, late talkers and...
by Gary Rhoades | Sep 8, 2012 | Videos
Gary Rhoades, Professor of Higher Education at the University of Arizona, shares a seasoned, national perspective on the rapidly changing landscape of higher education. Rhoades focuses on state policy models that are emerging nationally and the extent to which these...
by Tom Jones | Sep 8, 2012 | Videos
Tom Jones’s Encountering Cultures, a photographic series focused on historical reenactments of the French fur trade era (circa 1760–1840) called Rendezvous, opened on March 9th at the James Watrous Gallery in Madison. As a corollary to Jones’s own photographs, the...
by Michael Xenos, Lewis Friedland | Sep 4, 2012 | Videos
In the run up to the 2012 fall elections, UW–Madison professors Lewis Friedland and Michael Xenos discuss the role that social media plays in political organizing. A professor in the UW-Madison School of Journalism & Mass Communication and an affiliated professor...
by Sara Raab | May 21, 2012 | Videos
How can we prepare for the difficult decisions and conversations surrounding end of life decisions? In the second presentation of the Wisconsin Academy’s 2012 Age On! Series of free, public talks, three Wisconsin doctors share unique perspectives on end-of-life...
