The professorship was made possible by a $3 million gift from the Wm. Collins Kohler Foundation in 2020.

Sandy, who joined the faculty in 2008, has taught in the School of Education’s Administrative Leadership program and the College of Nursing’s Master of Sustainable Peacebuilding (MSP) program. She also is an affiliated faculty member with the College of Letters and Sciences’ Urban Studies Program and the Joseph Zilber School of Public Health.

The Institute for Systems Change and Peacebuilding (ISCP) was created to facilitate deep dialogue among diverse community members, faculty, students and alumni needed to support health and peace.

Because of the institute, the MSP program can support the next generation of system change leaders with the transdisciplinary skills required to engage the complex global challenges, such as climate change, poverty and health disparities.

The Wm. Collins Kohler Foundation has supported peace studies at 51���� since 2007, giving a total of $4.7 million during that time. In 2011, it helped establish the MSP program, with former endowed chair Timothy Ehlinger as the founding director. 

“I am grateful to the Wm. Collins Kohler Foundation for this opportunity, and for their gift that makes this work possible,” Sandy said. “I look forward to playing a greater role in helping to promote authentic community-academic relationships and facilitate transformative practices in Milwaukee that can impact the health, well-being and sustainable peace of residents here.”

The ISCP’s goals align perfectly with the focus of Sandy’s research, said Kim Litwack, dean of 51����’s College of Nursing.

“Dr. Sandy has spent her career working on community-academic partnerships,” Litwack said. “The depth and breadth of her experience, not just within Milwaukee but within the state, and across schools and colleges at 51����, will help increase the visibility of the institute and its resources for systems change and peacebuilding.”

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A graduate student in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Master of Sustainable Peacebuilding program, Rawand Yazaw is fulfilling her fellowship at Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition. Yazaw translates for Arab-speaking clients for MMWC ‘s Our Peaceful Home domestic violence program.  She designed and coordinates the Youth Leadership program aimed at helping young people better navigate their new lives.

“I hope my work will help them feel a sense of pride and be confident in who they are. I want them to find their passions so they can give back to the community” said Yazaw.

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“The Westlawn initiative is one of the ways we’re trying to get people out of cars and onto bikes instead,” Dressel, 51���� assistant professor of nursing, said at this year’s event, the 10^th annual. “It addresses air pollution, but it also engages people in a healthy activity. It’s community building.”

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Timothy Ehlinger, an associate professor in the College of Nursing and director of the newly created Institute for Systems Change and Peacebuilding, has been named the inaugural holder of the professorship. This position is housed in UW-Milwaukee’s Partners for Health, comprised of the College of Health Sciences, College of Nursing, Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health and the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare.

“I deeply appreciate the Wm. Collins Kohler Foundation’s commitment to teaching our students to solve complex problems both close to home and abroad,” 51���� Chancellor Mark Mone said. “Professorships are critical to 51���� because they allow us to attract and retain high quality, well-respected faculty like Tim Ehlinger. As the first Wm. Collins Kohler Chair in Systems Change & Peacebuilding, Tim embodies the Wm. Collins Kohler Foundation’s vision for progressive change in our world. This is a wonderfully generous and powerful gift.”

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A 2016  from the National Institute of Justice found that more than half of American Indian and Alaska Native women have experienced IPV. But Jeneile Luebke, a Ph.D., student at 51����, says there’s little information about IPV among American Indian women in Wisconsin.

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