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• College Part of Four Funded FY24 Investment for Growth Projects

  May 24, 2023 1:45 pm40 views

  The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has selected 11 proposals with budgets totaling nearly $15 million as part of the Investment for Growth program. College of Education faculty are leading two projects, and are collaborating on two additional projects. Projects chosen for the program’s fifth round of funding demonstrate the spirit of collaboration, innovation and immense promise to impact our campus community and beyond.  

• C&I Graduate Student Pair Awarded Global Intersections Grant

  May 15, 2023 1:45 pm18 views

  Citlalli Garcia and Brian Acosta were awarded the Global Intersections Grant, a campus initiative by the University's Center for Global Studies to encourage multicultural, international, transnational, and global perspectives that promote understanding and aid in solving global problems through developing new research areas and projects of global importance. 

• New Book Co-Edited by OCCRL Director Reimagines Colleges, Communities

  May 8, 2023 2:45 pm17 views

  Drs. Lorenzo D. Baber and Heather McCambly have edited a new book titled “Critiques for Transformation: Reimagining Colleges and Communities for Social Justice.”

• PANEL: Demonstrations of Research on Teaching & Learning with ChatGPT

  May 4, 2023 4:15 pm5 views

  Hear directly from research teams currently conducting ChatGPT research on the Illinois campus. This session is part of our ongoing focus on ChatGPT's impact on research and teaching and what we must consider as we continue to study teaching and learning in response to the rapid development and implementation of ChatGPT and other generalized AI tools.

• EPOL Department Head Yoon Pak Receives Campus Executive Officer Distinguished Leadership Award

  May 1, 2023 10:45 am13 views

  Congratulations to Professor Yoon Pak, who has been recognized by peers and awarded from the campus' Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost.

• Sustainability Education Collective Conference and Workshop Series

  Apr 28, 2023 11:00 am17 views

  Join the Sustainability Education Collective, a three-day conference and workshop series focuses on sustainability education as a way to advance equity and justice in research and public education. Advanced registration for in-person and online participants is required. Space is limited.

  Registration is free: https://go.education.illinois.edu/sustainabilityedcollective

• Virtual Exchange for the Post-pandemic Era: DEI in a Virtual Global Context. A Global Symposium

  Apr 28, 2023 10:45 am0 views

  This Global Symposium is being curated by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, College of Education with the support of The Center for Global Studies (CGS) and the European Union Center (EUC). This symposium brings together leading scholars and thought leaders in virtual exchange from around the world to explore its future development. Our goal is to reconsider the role and responsibility of virtual exchange in a global context with experiences and insights from across different disciplines.  

  The event is scheduled in a hybrid format for May 5, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. CT. More information is available on this website: https://international.education.illinois.edu/events/global-education-symposium 

  Registration link: https://forms.illinois.edu/sec/88500606

• Rebecca Ginsburg, EJP Awarded LAS Student Success Innovation Project Funding

  Apr 28, 2023 10:30 am8 views

  Congratulations to EPOL Professor and Education Justice Project Director Rebecca Ginsburg, who is part of a team awarded up to $100,000 from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences as one of three projects in their Student Success Innovation program.

• Online Master's Student Published in National Diversity Council Newsletter

  Apr 25, 2023 9:15 pm4 views

  Online master's student in EPOL Dr. Fawzia Reza published an article Anyone for a No Female Left Behind (Nflb) Policy? in the April 2023 National Diversity Council Newsletter.

• U.S. News & World Report Ranks College's Graduate Programs Among Nation's Best

  Apr 25, 2023 12:30 pm129 views

  U.S. News & World Report released their 2023-24 Best Graduate Schools rankings today, and the College of Education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s on-campus graduate programs all continue to rank in the top 25 nationwide.

• Lynn Burdick Among Sixteen Employees Honored with Inaugural Chancellor’s Staff Excellence Award

  Apr 21, 2023 4:30 pm33 views

  Curriculum & Instruction program coordinator Lynn Burdick has received an inaugural Chancellor’s Staff Excellence Award, recognizing exceptional performance at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  

• Education Grad Students Winners at 2023 Research Live! Competition

  Apr 10, 2023 4:30 pm22 views

  Congratulations to Ricky Price and Joe Mirabelli, two of the winners of the eighth annual Research Live! competition, sponsored by the Graduate College.

• TIER-ED Spring 2023 Speaker: Andrew Manches

  Apr 6, 2023 11:00 pm28 views

  Join us for the Spring 2023 TIER-ED Seminar From Gesture Research to Impactful Educational Technology with Dr. Andrew Manches on April 18 from noon to 1 p.m. in Education Room 22. 

  Dr. Manches is Professor of Children and Technology at the University of Edinburgh and co-director of the Digital Education Research Centre. Learn about how gestures can reveal children's learning, and how this research can be applied to the design of impactful educational products. 

  RSVPs Appreciated: https://tinyurl.com/TIER-ED-manches

• Two College of Education Doctoral Students Receive Provost's 2023 Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award

  Mar 29, 2023 2:30 pm101 views

  Congratulations to Sanchari Banerjee, doctoral candidate in Educational Psychology, and Ana Garner, doctoral candidate in Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, who have both been chosen as recipients of the Provost's 2023 Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching award.

• EJP Director Rebecca Ginsburg Honored with 2023 Public Humanities Award

  Mar 28, 2023 4:45 pm18 views

  Congratulations to Education Justice Project Director Rebecca Ginsburg on being named a 2023 Illinois Public Humanities Award recipient.

• Public Engagement Research Assistantship for Ph.D. Students: Applications Now Open

  Mar 24, 2023 3:30 pm22 views

  Applications are now open to Ph.D. students in the College of Education for a yearlong 50% graduate research assistant position with the Sola Gratia Farm: Urbana Farm to School Program for AY2023-24 (August 16, 2023 – May 15, 2024). This RA position is created in partnership between the College of Education (COE) and the Humanities Research Institute (HRI). 

• Ujima Freedom School in Champaign Hiring Servant Leader Interns for Summer 2023

  Mar 22, 2023 2:00 pm67 views

  The Ujima Freedom School in Champaign is hiring Servant Leader Interns to teach in the summer program. The mission of the Freedom Schools program is to boost student motivations to read, generate more positive attitudes toward learning, increase self-esteem and connect the needs of children and families to the resources of their communities. The program serves children in grades kindergarten through ninth grade for six weeks. 

• Christina Krist Awarded Top Honor by NARST, A Global Organization for Improving Science Education through Research

  Mar 20, 2023 6:00 pm33 views

  Christina Krist has been selected to receive the NARST 2023 Early Career Research Award (ECRA). This honor recognizes Krist’s professional accomplishments as the most significant among other researchers nominated for the ECRA this year.

• 2023 ICTW Symposium

  Mar 9, 2023 9:00 am27 views

  Registration is now open for the 2023 ICTW Symposium, April 13-14, at the I Hotel and Illinois Conference Center in Champaign, Illinois.

• College of Applied Health Sciences Joining IT Partners

  Mar 8, 2023 4:00 pm10 views

  The College of Applied Health Sciences (AHS) is joining Information Technology Partners, a collaborative partnership between college IT units at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. IT Partners, formed in 2018 as a partnership between Gies College of Business and the College of Education, is excited to welcome AHS as its third member.

• Five Education Graduate Students in Research Live! Finalist Showcase

  Mar 8, 2023 3:30 pm26 views

  Please congratulate our graduate students on this important distinction and do what you can to cheer them on Thursday, April 6, at 4:00 pm CT, either in person at the Knight Auditorium in the Spurlock Museum (600 S. Gregory St., Urbana) or via the live stream.

• Nidia Ruedas-Gracia Lead Author of Paper on Fostering Belonging in Research Groups

  Mar 1, 2023 6:15 pm0 views

  Educational Psychology assistant professor Nidia Ruedas-Gracia, along with colleagues at Stanford University, present ten simple rules for creating a sense of belonging in research groups. Read more in their new article published in PLOS Computational Biology.

• Jon Hale Named 2023-24 HRI Faculty Fellow

  Mar 1, 2023 3:00 pm21 views

  Congratulations to C&I and EPOL associate professor Jon Hale, who is one of seven faculty members on campus to be named a 2023-24 Humanities Research Fellow.

• Panel: The Impact of ChatGPT on the Research of Teaching and Learning

  Feb 28, 2023 10:45 am7 views

  This panel is being organized by the College of Education to discuss recent progress in ChatGPT, its impact on research, and particularly how it impacts the research of teaching and learning. The aim of this discussion is to consider the impact of multi-purpose AI on research and teaching and what we must consider as we continue to study teaching and learning in response to current developments.

  Zoom Webinar Registration required.

• Roundtable: The History of Changing U.S. History Instruction

  Feb 27, 2023 4:15 pm33 views

  The Center for Children's Books series around the historic implementation of the TEAACH Act (Teaching Equitable Asian American Community History) in Illinois continues Tuesday, March 7 at noon Central Time with a roundtable discussion featuring four experts in the history of education.

• Global Citizenship Education: Providing Equity Through the Globe

  Feb 23, 2023 6:30 am1 views

  Please join us on Thursday, March 2 at noon for a panel presentation on global citizenship education with Carlos Alberto Torres (professor and UNESCO chair on Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education at UCLA), Ana Elvira Steinbech Torres (Paulo Freire Institute, UCLA), and Linda Herrera (Professor, EPOL).

  In-person space is limited and registration is required. Please RSVP using the appropriate link below:

  RSVP to attend in-person 

  RSVP to attend via Zoom

  CO-SPONSORED BY: CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES, CENTER FOR SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, THE LEMAN CENTER FOR BRAZILIAN STUDIES.

• Theory and Biography: A Conversation with Carlos Alberto Torres

  Feb 23, 2023 6:30 am1 views

  Abstract: Scratch a theory, find a biography. Torres, working over three decades in critical studies in education, will analyze key moments of his own biography as an exiled intellectual, migrant, international student and academic professor in diverse countries. He will discuss what he has learned to advance an agenda of research, teaching and social transformation for a better world. 

  DATE: Wednesday, March 1

  TIME: Noon - 1:30 p.m. CT

  PLACE: Room 242 Education or join by Zoom: Meeting ID 852 0388 8968; Password 398009

  LUNCH PROVIDED

• Dean's Office Hosts Two Fireside Chats with Distinguished Speaker Joy Gaston Gayles

  Feb 22, 2023 12:00 pm17 views

  On March 6, the Dean's Office is hosting opportunities for College of Education graduate students and assistant professors to participate in an informal conversation with Dean's Distinguished Speaker Dr. Joy Gaston Gayles.

• Free Webinar: Building Effective Industry Partnerships

  Feb 20, 2023 2:15 pm2 views

  The Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute is hosting an informational webinar on building effective industry partnerships on March 2 at 10 a.m. CT. This panel event will likely interest researchers across campus.

• Victor Ruiz-Divas, EPOL Doctoral Student, to Present at Inner Voices Social Theatre: Reimagining Masculinity

  Feb 20, 2023 12:30 pm24 views

  INNER VOICES Social Issues Theatre invites students, faculty, and staff to attend a special night of reimagining masculinity.

  The event will feature an open mic, conversation, and a performance of the piece ‘Lost Illusions’ by Victor A. Ruiz-Divas, EPOL doctoral student.

• Online Ed.D. Student Christa Tinari to Lead Contemplative-Based Resilience Project

  Feb 10, 2023 11:45 am11 views

  Christa Tinari has a new role as Director of the Contemplative-Based Resilience Project at The Garrison Institute, a non-profit organization in New York state. The CBR Project combines research-based practices in mindful awareness and movement, compassion meditation, and education on the neurobiology of stress and resilience.

• University Primary School Project Studies Exhibit

  Feb 9, 2023 10:45 am0 views

  University Primary School, our College of Education's preschool-fifth grade laboratory school, is hosting their Project Studies Exhibit in the Education Building first and third floor lounges, Thursday, February 9 to Wednesday, February 15.

• Assistant Professor Idalia Nuñez Awarded Second 2023 Early Career Award from AERA

  Feb 8, 2023 3:00 pm7 views

  Congratulations to Curriculum and Instruction assistant professor Idalia Nuñez, who has been awarded a second 2023 Early Career Award—this time, from AERA Division K: Teaching and Teacher Education.

• Asif Wilson PI on 'Communiversities' Research Project Chosen for Funding by the Mellon Foundation

  Feb 7, 2023 1:00 pm34 views

  Curriculum and Instruction assistant professor Asif Wilson was recently named as a PI in the final round of the Humanities Without Walls consortium’s Grand Research Challenge, funded by the Mellon Foundation.

• Faculty: Apply Today to Be a 2023-24 Public Engagement Fellow

  Jan 30, 2023 1:45 pm10 views

  The Public Engagement Faculty Fellows Program is open to all full-time faculty (tenure-track, specialized, etc.) with their primary appointment in the College of Education. A maximum of four faculty fellows will be selected for the upcoming academic year. Faculty at the assistant professor level are especially encouraged to apply.

• C&I's Idalia Nunez Wins AERA Early Career Scholar Award

  Jan 30, 2023 8:30 am19 views

  Congratulations to Idalia Nuñez, assistant professor of Curriculum & Instruction, who is the 2023 recipient of the Early Career Award from the AERA Language and Social Processes special interest group (SIG).

• College of Education Receives Engaged Unit Program Award from Campus

  Jan 23, 2023 4:00 pm37 views

  Congratulations to Assistant Professor of Special Education, Erica Mason, and a team of scholars from the College of Education: Emily Stone (lead coordinator), James Harden, Victor Perez, Gloriana González Rivera, and Dean Chrystalla Mouza! They have been selected for an Engaged Unit Program Award through the Office of the Chancellor.

• College Mourns the Loss of Stafford L. Hood, Sheila M. Miller Professor Emeritus

  Jan 19, 2023 8:30 am604 views

• University Primary School 2023-24 Admissions Season Begins

  Jan 12, 2023 2:15 pm31 views

  At Uni Primary, children are valued as competent, curious citizens, engaged in creative, challenging, and meaningful project studies and curriculum.

• SPED Professor Amber Ray Recipient of CEC's Early Career Publication Award

  Jan 12, 2023 1:30 pm11 views

  Congratulations to Special Education assistant professor Amber Ray, who has been named the 2022 recipient of the Early Career Publication Award from Council for Exceptional Children Division for Research.

• Liora Bresler, Professor Emerita of C&I, Awarded Honorary Doctorate from University of Athens, Greece

  Jan 9, 2023 4:30 pm21 views

  The University of Athens, Greece, is awarding the title of Doctor Honoris Causa to Professor Emerita Liora Bresler of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's College of Education.

  The ceremony will take place at the National and Kapodistrian University Ceremonial Hall, on February 22, 2023.

• SPED Alumni Receive Prestigious CEC Awards

  Dec 21, 2022 4:15 pm69 views

  Stacy McGuire and Courtney O'Grady recently received awards from the Division for Research of the Council for Exceptional Children.

• Education at Illinois Alumni Award Nominations Open

  Dec 13, 2022 3:45 pm14 views

  Nominations from faculty, alumni, and friends of the College for 2023 awards are accepted through March 1, 2023, at 5 p.m. CST. We encourage all nominations be kept confidential.

• Present Your Research: 2023 Graduate Student Conference

  Dec 7, 2022 4:30 pm56 views

  The College of Education's Graduate Student Conference, scheduled for March 3, 2023, is now accepting proposals from graduate students interested in sharing their work and research. Submit your abstract by January 9, 2023, for full consideration.

• Zan-Zendegi-Azadi: A Play on Contagious Courage in Iran

  Nov 30, 2022 4:30 pm62 views

  This performance and Q&A, December 3 at 6 p.m., aims to shed light on the current woman-centered revolutionary movement in Iran and the contagious courage of women and men whose voices against oppression need to be heard worldwide

• Interseminars Lecture December 6 Features Dr. Eve L. Ewing

  Nov 29, 2022 4:15 pm35 views

  Eve L. Ewing, a lifelong Chicagoan, is a writer and scholar who uses multi-genre storytelling, tools of sociological inquiry, archives, and community-grounded epistemologies to interrogate racialized histories and imagine emancipatory possibilities. A former public school teacher, she is particularly interested in the role of schools as social institutions and in the ways that schools can construct, normalize, and reinforce forms of social inequality, the ways that educational inequities reflect social cruelties beyond the walls of the school building, as well as, conversely, the still-lingering possibility that educational spaces can be sites of joy and liberation.  

• A Tribute to James D. Anderson: Recordings Now Available

  Nov 11, 2022 3:45 pm13 views

  If you missed the Conversation with Dr. Freeman A. Hrabowski III and Dr. James D. Anderson or the Tribute to James D. Anderson—or if you just want to relive the events—you're in luck. Recordings of both are available now.

• Professor Meghan Burke Named 2022-23 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Provost Fellow

  Nov 1, 2022 2:00 pm3 views

  The Provost Fellows program was created to further develop leadership skills at the university level for some of the university's most accomplished tenured faculty. Each Provost Fellow focuses on a critical campus strategic initiative to ensure we are living up to our full potential in our scholarly missions. These initiatives are designed to further strengthen their individual interests and career goals.

• Congratulations to the 2022 Graduate Student Leadership Award Winners

  Oct 28, 2022 4:30 pm14 views

  Each year during Grad Student Appreciation Week since 2015, the Graduate College names Graduate Student Leadership Award recipients. Congratulations to two of this year's winners, who are part of the College of Education community.

• College Welcomes Dedicated Clinical Social Worker and Counselor for Education Students

  Oct 24, 2022 10:45 am34 views

  Emese Poszet has joined the College of Education as an embedded clinical social worker and counselor.