University of Wisconsin–Madison
By Cherish Golden This blog continues our series highlighting financial aid policies and opportunities that are specific to Indigenous students. Here, we focus on 39 funding opportunities for Indigenous students in five Pacific and West Coast states: Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington. In early 2025, Indigenous students will have access to our publicly available …
By Nicholas Hillman You may have read recently that the SSTAR Lab is undertaking a new set of studies focused on rural students’ pathways to and through higher education. These two new studies extend our existing work on geography of opportunity. But you may be wondering why geography/rurality is part of the Lab’s portfolio. To …
By Kathryn Boonstra As a research-practice partnership, SSTAR Lab engages with program leaders and practitioners in ways that are quite different from traditional academic researchers. One role we may play, particularly when launching a partnership during the ideation or design stage, is to facilitate the development of a theory of change. What is a theory …