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COVID INFESTED, Chris Cantwell, 2020

In the fall of 2020, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee started the school year with the overwhelming number of its courses online. At the time,…

Tags: Education--Universities, Photograph, Reopening, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Milwaukee Public Schools, MPS COVID Test Notification, May 4, 2021

When Milwaukee Public Schools reopened on April 14, 2021, their COVID procedures required that 10% of every school be randomly tested for COVID every…

Tags: COVID-19 Testing, Education--K12, Milwaukee Public Schools, Photograph

Self-Care for Them, Chong Lee, Creative Health Collective, 2020

The creator of this piece, Chong Lee is a recent high school graduate, and a member of Milwaukee’s Hmong community. Lee’s goal in creating was to…

Tags: Art, Asian Americans, Digital Painting, Elderly, Health & Wellness, Social Distance

Portrait of a College Freshman, Phareda Be, 2020

Phareda Be describes this photograph as the first picture taken of her after becoming a college freshman. She had just finished a professional…

Tags: Education--Universities, Parks & Playgrounds, Photograph, Portrait, Student

A Pandemic Job, Phareda Be, 2020

Phareda Be poses in front of a mirror while wearing her Bath & Body Works uniform. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Be's father lost his job,…

Tags: Employment, Home & Family Life, Photograph, Uniform

Zed Kenzo (they/them), Ariana Vaeth, Creative Health Collective, 2020

Tags: African Americans, Art, Artist, Black Lives Matter, Painting

An End of an Era, Phareda Be, 2020

The photograph depicts UW-Milwaukee freshman Phareda Be at her high school graduation in 2020. Because of the small size of her graduating class, Be…

Tags: Celebration, Education--K12, Education--Universities, Graduation, Photograph, Student

Jamee N. Pritchard, Oral History Interview with Dr. DaJuan Ferrell, April 22, 2021

In March 2020 when university instruction moved primarily online, DaJuan Ferrell was tasked with learning how to teach his undergraduate students in a…

Tags: Alumni, Education--Universities, Graduate, Graduation, Oral History

Jamee N. Pritchard, Oral History Interview with Phareda Be, April 29, 2021

In this oral history interview with Phareda Be, she describes her experiences of graduating high school in 2020 at the height of the global…

Tags: Education--K12, Education--Universities, Graduation, Oral History, Race & Ethnicity, Student, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Xenophobia

Brennan Christianson, A New Dawn, A New Day, A New Job, January 29, 2021, February 16, 2021, May 1, 2021

This series of Facebook posts is of 2020 graduate Brennan Christianson as he accepts a new position, changes his employment status, and documents his…

Tags: Alumni, Door County Maritime Museum, Employment, Facebook, Graduate, Photograph, Screenshot, Social Media, Student