A true lifelong learner: Continuing Studies staff member is a winning artist

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. …

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The evolving and challenging world of distance education: e-textbooks, virtual labs, open courses … what’s next?

by Jane Terpstra, Director, Distance Education Professional Development at the Division of Continuing Studies Demand for online learning remains high because of technology advances, diminishing state support, and leaner corporate training budgets. This year, educators are …

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Remembering a beloved journalism teacher

For more than 30 years—from the 1950s to the 1980s—thousands of Wisconsin high school students learned about news and feature writing at Newspaper in Education programs led by Prof. Bob Tottingham of Continuing Studies (then UW-Extension). …

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Should we nix the Star-Spangled Banner?

A recent national poll revealed that a majority of Americans would prefer to sing a new American anthem than try to warble Francis Scott Key’s musical composition (circa 1814). It seems very few are enamored …

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Continuing Studies staff, faculty honored as Teaching Fellows

Dr. Suzanna Waters-Castillo, director of UW-Madison Continuing Studies programs on aging, was inducted into UW-Madison’s Teaching Academy this spring. Waters-Castillo joins five other Continuing Studies faculty and academic staff in the Teaching Academy: Sage Goellner (languages), …

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