Alumni enjoy brunch in D.C.
Wisconsin legislative analyst Jennie Mauer was vacationing in Washington, D.C., so a number of alumni and a student gathered for Sunday brunch on August 25.
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'09 grad returns to New York City as education analyst
Holly Bedwell is delighted to be confronted with child abuse, homelessness, and school suspensions and attendance problems — and to be back in Brooklyn after four years in Wisconsin. Read more ...
Moynihan wins best book award
Associate director Donald Moynihan’s 2008 book, The Dynamics of Performance Management: Constructing Information and Reform, won the Best Book Award from the Public and Nonprofit Divisionof the Academy of Management. Moynihan received the award August 9 at the academy’s meeting in Chicago. Read more ...
Grad takes No. 3 spot at state corrections department
1999 La Follette School alum Carrie Templeton is the new executive assistant at the Wisconsin Department of Corrections. She oversees key activities and is a top adviser to Secretary Rick Raemisch, Deputy Secretary Ismael Ozanne and Governor Jim Doyle on legislative and policy matters. Read more ...
Milwaukee committee hears alumni workshop report on waste collection, fees
A Milwaukee Common Council committee grilled three 2009 La Follette School graduates on a public affairs workshop report at a public hearing — and then tabled their research without taking a vote. Read more ...
Student to represent development organization at forum in Kenya
La Follette School student Marissa Mommaerts is one of seven University of Wisconsin–Madison students or recent graduates who will represent the campus’ student-run international development organization EDGE Project at the civil society component of the 2009 AGOA Forum, August 4-6 in Nairobi, Kenya. Read more ...
Holden, Cajun Strangers to release 2nd CD
La Follette professor emeritus Karen Holden is kicking off her retirement with a CD release party and dance as her band, the Cajun Strangers, unveils "Cajun Country Ramble" on Sunday, August 2, at the Eastside Club, 3725 Monona Drive. Holden plays the Cajun t-fer (aka the triangle) for the Strangers.
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Newsletter features cost-benefit volume
A new book reviewing the application of cost-benefit analysis to social policy is part of a feature story in a summer 2009 MacArthur Foundation newsletter. La Follette School professor David Weimer and Aidan Vining of Simon Fraser University received a grant from the foundation to produce Investing in the Disadvantaged: Assessing the Benefits and Costs of Social Policies. Read more ...
’09 grad turns to crafting education programs
Figuring out how to pay for college can be enough of a challenge for a high school student, but covering the costs for every graduate from all of a district’s high schools could seem insurmountable — or an exciting opportunity. Read more ...
Health reform, green jobs and fiscal crisis highlight annual legislative leadership training session
Policy options on the costs of health care, the development of green jobs and solutions to states’ fiscal crises were among the issues highlighted in the 15th annual Bowhay Institute of Legislative Leadership Development in July at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Read more ...