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WCER Celebrates 45 Years

August 2, 2009

In August 1964 the University of Wisconsin-Madison signed an agreement with the U.S. Office of Education to establish what is now WCER. In the Foreword to the book “The Wisconsin Center for Education Research” (1990) Fred Harvey Harrington, UW President Emeritus, wrote that “Here was an avenue of opportunity that was in line with the University of Wisconsin’s traditional commitment to innovation and experimentation in teaching, to the union of basic and applied research, to outreach tying the Madison campus to progress in the state and beyond.” Establishing WCER was part of a major movement of the time—the attempt to enlist higher education in research-and-action efforts to help solve pressing problems and improve the quality of life is the U.S. and abroad.