Emily Files
Education ReporterEmily has been reporting on Milwaukee-area education for WUWM since 2018.
She began as a reporter for KRBD in Ketchikan, Alaska where she once covered a bear interrupting a high school cross country race. She then worked as a reporter and eventually news director at KHNS Radio in Haines, where she reported on a man in a bear costume harassing actual bears. Aside from the occasional bear story, Emily covered the local politics, tribal issues, hunting, fishing and, of course, education.
Emily is originally from the Chicago area. She studied journalism at Emerson College in Boston, where she reported her very first radio stories for college station WERS.
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If you want to learn how to make a new dish, you’ll find that many of Milwaukee Recreation’s cooking classes are Korean. -
With a teacher shortage, the district expects it won’t be able to fill many positions. It’s using the savings from those projected vacancies to help pay for an 8% cost of living salary increase and other expenses.
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The Catholic university in Fox Point is closing after 86 years due to low enrollment and a budget deficit.
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Monica Kling-Garcia, an alumnus and former admissions staff member, and their mother, Kelley Kling, an adjunct in the communications department, share how working together at Stritch impacted their family and relationship.
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Stritch has just over 1,000 students currently attending the university. Those who aren’t set to graduate this month are scrambling to figure out how to continue their education.
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Stritch’s enrollment has plummeted from about 6,000 students in 2010 to just over 1,000 this year. The Franciscan institution has operated at a deficit almost every year in the last decade, according to tax statements.
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Lake Effect's Audrey Nowakowski & WUWM education reporter Emily Files speak with faculty, including Stritch University President Dr. Dan Scholz, and students about the upcoming closure of the university.
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At the private University School of Milwaukee, one class recently learned about the treatment of Japanese Americans during WWII. Now, the students are advocating for more lessons like this.
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It's part of Marquette's growing prison education program, which for the first time is including jail guards in its class roster.
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Cardinal Stritch University north of Milwaukee has experienced a steep drop in enrollment, leading to its closure.
