Enjoy this gallery of photos from the UW–Madison archives and digital collections that represent people and programs at the Division of Continuing Studies as well as images representing continuing education throughout the history of UW–Madison.
Farmer’s Institute workers pose for a group picture in 1927. The Farmers’ Institutes were short-term, practical training programs designed to share the university’s agricultural science knowledge — in topics like entomology — with state farmers.The students in the violin section of the 1929 Summer Music Clinic pose for a group photo with their instructors, Henry Sopkin and Orien Dalley.Four elementary-school-aged children work in a classroom as part of WHA radio’s School of the Air program, ca. 1945-55.A classroom of children seated at their desks in 1948 hold School of the Air programs for the Wisconsin Centennial.Women in Clintonville, Wisconsin, in 1955, watching UW Extension’s noncredit foreign language course, Conversational German, broadcast over WHA-TV.A group portrait of attendees at an American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) Conference held at UW–Madison.A graduate student returns home to his tent in the Camp Gallistella tent colony. The tent colony housed graduate students studying at UW during the summer session and was located on the north side of Lake Mendota Drive – now part of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve – referenced as Tent Colony Woods.Correspondence student Janice Kressin (in wheelchair) meets with her Extension Division instructors in 1953. Extension Division director, Lorentz H. Adolfson, standing, center; and University President Edwin B. Fred, seated, right.A junior at the UW School of Commerce in the 1950s listens to lectures in his home via the Teachaphone, which enabled him to ask and answer questions.An unknown correspondence student surrounded by stacks of paper in 1959.The dining hall or cafeteria at the School for Workers, the first university-based labor education program in the U.S. Started in 1925 as one of the first operational components of the Wisconsin Idea, the school has a long tradition of evolving alongside the current needs of working people, labor organizations and community partners.An Air Force correspondence student stands in front of a row of planes at Truax Field, Madison, in 1963.Portrait of Kathryn Clarenbach, professor of continuing education, 1972. Known as a force in the modern women’s movement, she established the Women’s Studies Program at UW–Madison and helped plan and organize numerous local and national causes and groups. Clarenbach earned her degrees at Wisconsin and was on campus from 1937 to 1988.About two dozen teenagers sing at the Summer Music Clinic under the direction of a male instructor in 1973.School of the Arts student painting with watercolors in 2000. The Rhinelander School of the Arts was founded in 1964 by late University of Wisconsin professor Robert E. Gard. It ended in 2015, but was revitalized in 2017 by ArtStart and other partners.Student (possibly Linday Montjuit) part of the educational travel program in 2005, writing in a notebook in Barcelona, Spain.UW Odyssey Project students in 2010. For more than 20 years, the Odyssey Project has empowered students to overcome adversity and achieve dreams through higher education.Two students from the Visiting International Students Program (VISP) attend a badger football game in 2012. VISP welcomes students interested in short-term academic study at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.Photo from the 2014 UW–Madison Conference on Child Sexual Abuse, which ran for more than 30 years. The conference provided the latest academic and evidence-based research for those who worked with sexually abused children, adults who were abused as children and offenders.Wisconsin Center for Academically Talented Youth (WCATY, now part of Badger Precollege) students sitting on the pier circa 2018.Wisconsin Regional Art Program (WRAP) exhibit in 2019.Stacy Tran is honored for completion of the Badger Ready program at the returning adult students award reception in 2023. Badger Ready provides a pathway to degree completion for those facing barriers to transfer admission at UW–Madison.A graduate receiving his associate degree speaks at Oakhill Correctional Institution in 2024 as part of the Prison Education Initiative.
