International Education Week, Nov. 17–21, celebrates the benefits of a learning experience in a different country. UW-Madison events include an International Education Week Photo Exhibit (through November 21, Red Gym) and a talk by Suhail …
Success Stories
How has education changed your life, advanced your career, or transformed you as a person?
The Grief Support Specialist Certificate program is designed for counselors and other professionals who help people heal in the midst of loss.
Danielle Pollex-Rabl works as a counselor for people from all walks of life and of all ages in Portage—a job she absolutely loves. But she admits that working with individuals over the age of 60 …
A single mother of two boys, Janet Moore was inspired to earn a bachelor’s degree after working in an environmental education program in the McFarland school district. She was the recipient of one of the …
Continuing Studies Prof. Emily Auerbach recently received an award for her leadership and commitment to improving the lives of many in Madison from the Madison Organizing in Strength, Equality and Solidarity group (MOSES). It was the first …
Merikay Payne exemplifies the lifelong learner that UW-Madison Continuing Studies is tailor-made for. Besides working as a designer of brochures, catalogs, and other marketing materials for Continuing Studies, she is an award-winning (and money-making) artist. …
Joining thousands of other students and employees at UW-Madison, Continuing Studies staff and faculty this spring read and discussed the thought-provoking true story and national bestseller Enrique’s Journey by journalist Sonia Nazario. The Continuing Studies experience …
On May 9, 30 men and women of various ages showed their appreciation for the works of Plato, Shakespeare, Langston Hughes, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, and other greats of the humanities, as they celebrated …
Continuing Studies celebrates Certified Public Managers Ten managers from Wisconsin state and local government became Certified Public Managers® (CPM) on Friday, May 4 in a ceremony at the State Capitol. Bob Lavigna, UW-Madison human resources director, cited …
When a Madison social worker recently found herself working more often with middle-aged adults suffering from substance abuse than with her usual older adult clients, she visited the Continuing Studies website—and discovered a series of …