The ILS Program is celebrating its 75th anniversary on April 19, 2024, at the Pyle Center. Panel discussions featuring ILS faculty, staff, students, and graduates will focus on the student experience and its history, the ILS curriculum and its history, innovations in ILS instruction, and the history of the ILS program and the Experimental College from which it developed. In addition, there will be a lunchtime keynote address by Joy Connolly (President, American Council of Learned Societies) and a panel commemorating R. Booth Fowler, an Emeritus Professor of ILS and Political Science, who recently passed away. There will be refreshments throughout the day, starting at 9:00 am.
Lunch will be served through RSVP: please email Beth Shipman (eshipman@wisc.edu).