WISCAPE Director Noel Radomski has been appointed as a member of the planning and coordination team for a fall 2008 conference entitled "The Civic Mission of the Public University: New Strategies for Wisconsin."
WISCAPE Scholar Sara Goldrick-Rab will serve as keynote speaker for a Ford Foundation Summer Workshop entitled Quantitative Methodology of Higher Education Research.
WISCAPE Emeritus Affiliate Jacob Stampen will present his research on changes in the Wisconsin State Legislature as part of the La Follette Lecture Series on Friday, May 30.
WISCAPE Staff Affiliate Mark Connolly has been invited to participate in "Facilitating Change in Undergraduate STEM," a symposium that brings together a diverse group of 40 researchers to discuss ways to promote fundamental changes in the way science, technology, engineering, and math are taught at the postsecondary level.
The March 24 issue of the SCUP E-mail News, published by the Society for College and University Planning, cites "Determinants of State Appropriations for Higher Education from 1985-2005: An Organizational Theory Analysis," a WISCAPE Working Paper authored by Faculty Affiliate David Weerts and Project Assistant Justin Ronca.
WISCAPE Scholar Sara Goldrick-Rab has been chosen to serve as the luncheon speaker for a University of Wisconsin System professional development conference designed to help pre-college directors improve their programs.
The University Research Park has released The First Fifteen Years: 1984-1999, a retrospective about the award-winning research park written by WISCAPE Emeritus Affiliate Arthur Hove.
WISCAPE Scholar Sara Goldrick-Rab and WISCAPE Faculty Affiliate Philip Trostel have been selected as participants in an upcoming forum examining the concept of universal higher education.