The screening for “Profe” will be on Monday, Sept. 16 at Studio A in Vilas Hall, 821 University Ave., from 6:30-8:30 p.m. It is free to attend. The screening will also award three educators — …
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We’ve moved!
The School for Workers department has moved! Our new address is: School for Workers Room 1140 WARF 610 Walnut St Madison, WI 53726
School for Workers co-hosts Oct 10th visiting scholars program
Practical Radicals: How Oppressed People Change the World Online, Zoom October 10, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Register here The Visiting Scholars Program (VSP) lecture series brings distinguished critical scholars and activists from around …
The Myth of the Immigrant Threat with Armando Ibarra
Armando Ibarra joins Allen Ruff on A Public Affair to talk about the prevalence of anti-immigrant rhetoric in the GOP platform. Ibarra discusses what makes anti-immigrant narratives so appealing and how politicians use the language …
Professor Ibarra awarded a 2024 Reilly-Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment grant
Eight projects and 12 seed grants from the Reilly-Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment show a range of how UW–Madison faculty, staff and students can collaborate with community members to co-create and share knowledge and solutions that …
For the Record
News 3 Now takes an in-depth look at the top issues and stories from the past week and the week ahead. School for Workers Professor Don Taylor speaks about the impact unions have on state …
New immigration policy creates pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants
In the past decades, there has been a significant increase in the number of immigrants entering Wisconsin which has greatly increased the state’s Latino population — from 93,000 to 447,290, according to a Dairy Workers Study conducted by the School for Workers…
Dr. Childers selected in Seventh Cohort of Morgridge Fellows
School for Workers Professor Michael Childers was recently selected as a Morgridge Fellow at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Fifteen faculty and campus members were selected through a juried process to participate in the year-long learning …
A judge ruled parts of Act 10 are unconstitutional. What comes next
A Dane County judge ruled Wednesday that parts of the state’s Act 10 law are unconstitutional… “This finding — if it was allowed to stand — would, in essence, remove the changes to collective bargaining …
FY25 department chair announcement
For the new fiscal year (July 1 – June 30), the School for Workers department has elected Professor Don Taylor the department chair. Professor Taylor will oversee departmental activities, represent the department in meetings or …