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• Ed Psych researchers receive NSF and IES grants

  Aug 18, 2016 3:15 pm14 views

  Kiel Christianson and Jennifer Cromley, both scholars in the Department of Educational Psychology, received grants from the National Science Foundation and Institute of Education Sciences, respectively.

• EdPsych's Ananya Tiwari Recipient of 2019 Illinois International Graduate Achievement Award

  Oct 7, 2019 2:15 pm424 views

  Ananya Tiwari, a second-year PhD student in Educational Psychology, will receive this campus-level award at a banquet on November 20. 

• Ed Psych scholar Jennifer Cromley Recognized as Lead Contributor to Field

  Oct 8, 2018 2:00 pm3 views

  From 2009 to 2016, Educational Psychology scholar Jennifer C. Cromley was one of the top-producing female authors, editors, and editorial board members in her field, according to a paper in Educational Psychology Review.

• Ed Psych scholar to receive Lindquist Award at 2017 AERA Meeting

  Apr 19, 2017 4:00 pm31 views

  Professor Hua-Hua Chang of the Department of Educational Psychology has been awarded the 2017 E.F. Lindquist Award in recognition of his outstanding applied and theoretical research in the field of testing and measurement.

• Ed tech scholar receives 2017 Jan Hawkins Award by AERA

  May 3, 2017 10:45 am12 views

  Curriculum & Instruction scholar Robb Lindgren was the April 29 recipient of the 2017 Jan Hawkins Award for Early Career Contributions for Humanistic Research and Scholarship in Learning Technologies, AERA Division C. Lindgren said the award is special to him because of Jan Hawkins’ collaboration with his doctoral adviser prior to Hawkins’ death.

• EDUC 102 James Scholar Poster Session

  Dec 3, 2018 8:00 am0 views

  Please come out and support College of Education first year students as they present their James Scholar research projects on Thursday, December 13. Presentations will be held in the South Lobby of the Education Building from 10:30–11:30am. Refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to faculty, students, and staff.

• EDUC 102 Poster Session

  Dec 3, 2015 3:30 pm71 views

  10:30-11:30AM, Thursday, December 10 (Reading Day)

  North Lobby and Room 192 Education Building

  Interact with Instructor Adam Poetzel and James Scholar Freshmen as they present research on critical issues in education including:

  Standardized Testing
  Teach for America
  Poverty and Achievement
  Common Core Standards
  Disability
  Gender Gaps in STEM Fields
  Creativity in Schools
  Charter Schools
  Children’s Literature Stereotypes

  Support James Scholars!

  Bagels, donuts, coffee and water will be provided.

  View the event flier.

• Educational Psychology Available Positions

  Aug 28, 2017 3:45 pm3 views

  We are hiring! We are currently searching for 3 colleagues in the Department of Educational Psychology at Illinois.

  * Open Rank Professor of Statistics and Quantitative Methods (2 Positions) - Close Date: October 1, 2017

  * Associate or Full Professor of Evaluation - Close Date: October 15, 2017

  For more information, please go to www.education.illinois.edu/…/human-reso…/available-positions.

  Please help us spread the word to anyone you think may be interested.

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  Educational Psychology's Ananya Tiwari Awarded AAUW International Fellowship

  Jul 19, 2021 10:45 am80 views

  Congratulations to Educational Psychology doctoral candidate Ananya Tiwari, who has been awarded a 2021-22 International Fellowship from the American Association of University Women. The award aims to tackle barriers women face in education.

• Educational Psychology scholar awarded IES grant

  Jul 19, 2016 11:30 am17 views

  Jennifer Cromley, an associate professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, has been awarded a three-year grant worth $756,527 from the Institute of Education Sciences for her research project “Inference-Making and Reasoning: Refinement of an Assessment for Use in Gateway Biology Courses.”

• Educational Technology Leadership Summit

  Oct 1, 2015 2:45 pm83 views

  On December 9 at the iHotel and Conference Center, the Executive Leadership Academy will hold The Educational Technology Leadership Summit. The Summit will bring state educational leaders to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to participate in a unique professional learning opportunity on educational technology. The summit is designed for educational administrators and technology experts to share an experience designed to foster in-depth dialogue and provide collaborative and hands-on exposures to new technologies.

  Presented by Illinois faculty members, various leaders, and Cisco Systems, the summit will motivate thinking and discussions about exploring and taking advantage of technology to help teachers teach, students learn, and administrators manage educational environments. The interactive format will provoke discussion, both practical and theoretical, and provide a glimpse of new technology systems offered by Cisco Systems. Presentations, discussions, activities, and hands-on demonstrations will address technology integration, instructional strategies to enhance STEM learning, the role of the Internet in education, mobility solutions, and the classroom of the future. During the one-day summit participants will:

  Learn about research-based instructional strategies to enhance student learningConnect and network with school district leaders across central and southern IllinoisUnderstand strategies to manage technology integrationLearn strategies to assess organizational climate and readiness for technology transformationExplore cutting-edge educational technologies designed to enhance connectivity and student learning.

  To regrister: go.illinois.edu/ELATechSummit15

• Educational Theory Summer Institute

  Aug 5, 2016 11:15 am9 views

  Educational Theory Summer Institute (ETSI) 2016

  Ecologizing Education: Philosophy, Place, and Possibility

  Tuesday, August 16th 

  9:15 am – 5:15 pm

  College of Education, Room 22

  Free conference. Breakfast & lunch will be provided.

  All those interested in the environmental & ecological elements of learning should attend!

  Please plan to join us for the 7th Annual Educational Theory Summer Institute (ETSI). This year’s theme is Ecologizing Education: Philosophy, Place, and Possibility. Educational Theory has commissioned a team of leading international scholars to share fresh and substantive contributions on the theme. 

  This year's participants will be:

  Deborah Bird Rose (University of New South Wales)

  Sean Blenkinsop (Simon Fraser University)

  Ruth Irwin (University of Fiji)

  Clarence Joldersma (Calvin College)

  Huey-Li Li (University of Akron)

  Gregory Lowan-Trudeau (University of Calgary)

  Suzanne Rice (University of Kansas)

  Andrew Stables (University of Roehampton)

  For more information, or to RSVP, please contact Jessica Harless at jharles2@illinois.edu. 

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  Education Alum, Doctoral Candidate Named Cook County Co-Teacher of the Year by ISBE

  Feb 13, 2024 1:45 pm33 views

  Dillin Randolph was one of four co-teachers of the year for Cook County. Randolph is an antiracist English teacher at Niles West High School in Niles Township High School District 219.

• Education Alumna Tatyana McFadden Talks About Fighting for the Rights of Athletes with Disabilities

  May 21, 2019 3:00 pm88 views

  One Ed.M. in Curriculum & Instruction. Seventeen Paralympic medals. Twenty World Championships medals. Twenty-four World Major Marathon titles. At the age of 30, pro wheelchair-racer Tatyana McFadden has quite the hardware collection—and owns some serious real estate in the record books.

• Education alumnus Mark Foley receives state award for teaching history

  Aug 16, 2018 9:45 am16 views

  Two-time College of Education graduate Mark Foley was named the 2018 History Teacher of the Year Award from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

• Education at Illinois Alumni Award Cookout

  Sep 20, 2023 1:00 pm1 views

  Join Dean Mouza and the College of Education for a cookout and meet our 2023 Education Alumni Award recipients! 

• Education at Illinois Alumni Award Nominations Open

  Dec 13, 2022 3:45 pm16 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.

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  Education at Illinois Makes Three Administrative Appointments

  Jun 25, 2024 2:30 pm75 views

  Dean Chrystalla Mouza has appointed three faculty members to administrative positions in departments within the College for the 2024-25 school year.

• Education at Illinois Members Honored with Ebony Excellence Awards

  May 6, 2021 4:30 pm148 views

  The Ebony Excellence Awards is an annual awards program of the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center that provides an opportunity for students, student organizations, faculty, staff, and campus departments to be recognized for the outstanding work that they do on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus. 

• Education Faculty Awarded NSF Grant to Develop Learning Strategies for Elementary Mathematics Teachers

  Jul 20, 2023 9:30 am92 views

  Faculty members Michelle Perry and Nigel Bosch, along with alumna Meg Bates, will join researchers from the University of Chicago and New York University to investigate teachers' learning through online asynchronous learning modules.

• Education Faculty Awarded Spencer Foundation Research Grant

  Apr 15, 2022 4:00 pm49 views

  Catherine Dornfeld Tissenbaum, Idalia Nuñez Cortez, and Monica Gonzalez Ybarra's project, Our Lives, Our Dreams, Our "Voces": Leveraging Community-Based Collaborations to Increase Representation of Latina/x Girls’ Narratives in Museums has been awarded a Racial Equity Research Grant from the Spencer Foundation.

• Education Grad Students Winners at 2023 Research Live! Competition

  Apr 10, 2023 4:30 pm25 views

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

• Education Justice Project Accepting Applications

  Sep 10, 2021 5:00 pm35 views

  EJP hosts a college-in-prison program at Danville Correctional Center. Twice yearly, we accept applications for tutors, workshop facilitators, computer support team, and much more.

• Education Justice Project applications due Oct. 1

  Sep 1, 2015 9:45 am51 views

  Applications to work with the Education Justice Project (EJP) at the Danville Correctional Center are being accepted through Oct. 1. Two EJP Info Nights will take place in the Education Building in September.

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  Education Justice Project Awarded Two New Mellon Foundation Grants

  Dec 16, 2020 2:00 pm63 views

  Congratulations to director Rebecca Ginsburg and the Education Justice project team on more than $1.5M in new funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

• Education Justice Project receives 2015-2016 Campus Award for Excellence in Public Engagement

  Apr 12, 2016 3:00 pm41 views

  The Education Justice Project, a unit within the Department of Education Policy, Organization & Leadership in the College of Education, has been recognized with a Campus Award for Excellence in Public Engagement. The reception will take place April 26 from 4:30-6 p.m. at the I Hotel and Conference Center.

• Education Justice Project Receives Funding from Laughing Gull Foundation

  Feb 13, 2019 9:30 pm143 views

  "The EJP is honored to be recognized by the Laughing Gull. The gift supports essential staffing needs, and will contribute to EJP's growth at Danville Correctional Center and enhance our capacity to distribute reentry guides to individuals across the state," said EJP Director Rebecca Ginsburg.

• Education Justice Project Recruitment

  Jan 23, 2019 4:30 pm222 views

  Language Partners (LP), a program in the Education Justice Project (educationjustice.net) is an award-winning, peer-taught, English as second language program at Danville Correctional Center serving a primarily Latinx population. We are accepting applications for instructor-trainers at Danville Correctional Center. 

  To apply, go to http://www.educationjustice.net/home/get-involved/apply-to-ejp/ and select the Language Partners application.

  Deadline for applications is March 1, 2019.

• Education Justice Project Seeks Instructors

  Jan 30, 2017 8:45 am5 views

  The Education Justice Project (EJP) is seeking applicants to teach for a higher education program at the Danville Correctional Center.

• Education Justice Project to co-host event featuring Susan Burton

  May 10, 2018 3:30 pm7 views

  The Education Justice Project, an initiative of the College of Education, will co-sponsor a May 15 event featuring author Susan Burton, a nationally recognized advocate for restoring civil and human rights to formerly incarcerated women.

• Education Open House Event | Friday, March 8

  Feb 28, 2019 5:45 pm22 views

  Happening on Friday, March 8, from 1:30–3:30 p.m., the Student Academic Affairs Office (SAAO) will be hosting an Open House for Fall 2019 admitted students and their families/guests. The schedule of events can be found HERE.

  Please join us in welcoming these visitors to our college. Need a cookie break? It would be great to have as many faculty and staff as possible at the Reception in the North Lobby from 3–3:30 p.m.!    

  We hope you can join us in our efforts to recruit a diverse and talented group of incoming students to the College of Education for Fall 2019.

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  Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership Honored by OVCDEI

  Nov 7, 2023 2:00 pm41 views

  The Department has been awarded the 2023 Larine Y. Cowan Make a Difference Award for Leadership in Diversity. 

• Education scholars collaborating on WHO immunization project

  Jul 25, 2017 11:00 am13 views

  Education at Illinois scholars Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis are working with The Geneva Learning Foundation and the World Health Organization on conducting a high-quality, statistically robust vaccination-coverage survey, which will focus on disease control in developing countries.

• Education scholars take to Capitol Hill to discuss policy

  Apr 18, 2016 3:30 pm92 views

  As part of the 2016 AERA Annual Meeting in Washington D.C., Richard Anderson (professor emeritus, Educational Psychology), Dorothy Espelage (Gutgsell Professor, Educational Psychology), and Bill Trent (Education Policy, Organization & Leadership) were a part of the Annual Meeting and Social and Behavioral Science Advocacy Day held by the Consortium of Social Science Associations.

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  Education Week Blogger Names Adrienne Dixson in Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings

  Jan 20, 2022 4:30 pm38 views

  American Enterprise Institute director of education policy studies and Education Week blogger Frederick M. Hess recently released his 2022 “Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings.” This annual exercise spotlights the top 200 education scholars who move ideas from academic journals into the national conversation. Using nine metrics, Hess calculated how much university-based academics contributed to public discussions of education.

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  Educators: Be a Beta Tester for SCD K-12 Learning Lab Intro to Design Thinking

  Jul 23, 2021 4:15 pm85 views

  Siebel Center for Design’s K-12 Learning Lab has developed, and is now offering for beta testing: the first installment of Learn It! Try It! Apply It!, SCD’s online, self-paced, and completely free-of-charge introduction to design thinking created for K-12 teachers and educators.

• Educators Job Fair for Students

  Nov 13, 2015 8:45 am82 views

  The Educators Job Fair will take place Monday, March 7, 2016, at the Hilton Garden Inn in Champaign. For more information, please contact Brian Neighbors at 217-333-0820 or bneig2@illinois.edu.

• Eight-week Black Minds Matter course to be live streamed at College of Education

  Oct 9, 2017 12:15 pm23 views

  The College of Education will be a live-streaming site for the upcoming Black Minds Matter course, taught by Dr. J. Luke Wood of San Diego State University.

• EJP Director Rebecca Ginsburg Honored with 2023 Public Humanities Award

  Mar 28, 2023 4:45 pm24 views

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

• EJP receives 2017 Community Impact Award

  Sep 18, 2017 4:15 pm11 views

  The Education Justice Project (EJP) was announced as a co-recipient of the Community Impact Award from the C-U Immigration Forum and the Urbana Free Library. The award will be presented to the organization at the fourth annual Immigrant Welcome Award Ceremony and Celebration on Sept. 23.

• Elementary Education Program Identified as Exemplary by Campus' Council for Learning Outcomes Assessment

  Feb 2, 2022 6:00 pm12 views

  Congratulationst to the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and specifically Lynn Burdick and Sarah McCarthey, as the BS in Elementary Education program was commended by the Provost's Office as being exemplary in terms of learning outcomes assessment.

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  Elizabeth Kirchgesner, MSTE, Receives Campus Emerging Award for Excellence in Public Engagement

  Jun 10, 2020 9:00 am149 views

  Congratulations to Beth Kirchgesner for receiving the Emerging Award for Excellence in Public Engagement from the campus' Provost's Office.

• Emerging Community College Leaders Engage at Second Illinois Community College Leadership Institute

  May 28, 2024 10:30 am9 views

  What started as a popular institute for community college leaders in Iowa is now gaining traction in the Land of Lincoln. The Illinois Community College Leadership Institute, an event co-sponsored by the Office of Community College Research and Leadership and the Illinois Community College Board, took place in May for the second year in a row.

• Emeritus professor discusses school systems with WalletHub

  Aug 1, 2016 4:30 pm40 views

  With school set to start later this month, numerous parents may be wondering whether or not the school district they live in will prepare their children for academic success. In light of the coming back-to-school season, WalletHub’s analysts compared the quality of education in the 50 states and the District of Columbia to shine the spotlight on top-performing school systems. Professor Emeritus Walter Feinberg lent his thoughts to the matter in a brief question-and-answer session.

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  Emily Stone Named College's Inaugural Director of Public Engagement

  Aug 30, 2021 10:00 am59 views

  The Dean's Office is pleased to announce that Emily Stone has accepted their offer to serve as the College of Education’s inaugural Director of Public Engagement.

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  Envisioning Collective Thriving During Ramadan

  May 4, 2020 7:30 pm61 views

  In this post on the Psychology Today website, PhD student in Educational Psychology Amir Maghsoodi joins the Psychology of Radical Healing Collective as a guest contributor on their blog to explore the application of the psychological framework of radical healing among American Arab, Middle Eastern, and North African (MENA) peoples during the COVID-19 pandemic and the month of Ramadan.

• EOL 573: The Community College

  Aug 29, 2014 11:15 am20 views

   

  EOL 573 - THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE

  Wednesday 4:00 – 6:50 p.m. (Hybrid)                      

  162 Education Bldg.                                                

  Meeting Dates: 9/3, 9/10, 9/17, 10/1,  10/8             

  10/15, 10/29, 11/5, 11/12, & 12/3                                 

  Professor Eboni Zamani-Gallaher

  E-mail: ezamanig@illinois.edu                                  

                         

  Course Description

  This course provides an overview of how various types of two-year postsecondary institutions, primarily comprehensive community colleges, have evolved and how they function. Themes running through the course address policies, trends, issues and innovations influencing the evolution and current operation of community colleges from the 20th century to the present. Beginning with a brief history of community colleges, the course offers content dealing with foundations, governance and administration, curriculum, faculty, students, and student outcomes. The course also offers a critical

  examination of community colleges, considering their strengths and weaknesses within the broader context of P-16 education.

   

  Course Objectives

  Ultimately, the course prepares students who aspire to be professors, researchers, policy analysts, and/or administrators of community college and higher education to understand, assess, and contribute to the betterment of community college education, today and in the future.

   

  By the end of the course, students will be able to:

   

  1. Trace the evolution of U.S. community colleges; understand the general mission, typical functions and goals of two-year institutions policies and programs as well as the stakeholders associated with them. 
  2. Identify and describe the status of community college education in terms of varieties; theoretical foundations; finance, governance, and administration; curriculum, faculty, students, and student outcomes. 
  3. Discern the unique linkages of two-year institutions within the K-16 educational pipeline. 
  4. Become familiar with issues related to campus climate and organizational culture at community colleges.
  5. Obtain increased awareness of the diversity of administrators, faculty, and student body
  6.  Describe features of the Illinois community college system relative to the themes identified in objective #2; compare and contrast the Illinois system with other major state systems.
  7.     Appreciate the paradox and complexity of community college through examination of its advocates and its critics.
  8. Identify and explain policies, innovations, trends and issues that influence community college education and assess their impact on future policies and practices.

• EPOL alumna selected for Fulbright Scholar Award

  Apr 28, 2016 8:00 am132 views

  Consuelo L. Waight, Ed.M. '97 EPOL, Ph.D. '02 EPOL, has been selected for a Fulbright award to Belize by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Dr. Waight is an associate professor in human resource development and a director of the executive and traditional options in the Master of Science in HRD degree in the College of Technology at the University of Houston.

• EPOL alumnus named Champion of Change by White House

  Apr 25, 2016 1:45 pm184 views

  Robert Scott, Ph.D. '11 EPOL, was named a Champion of Change by the White House for his work as executive director of the Cornell Prison Education Program (CPEP) at Cornell University. CPEP provides college-level liberal arts education to qualified incarcerated students in upstate New York prisons and is a response to the challenge of mass incarceration in the United States.

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  EPOL Alumnus Named Executive Director of Immigrant Services of Champaign-Urbana

  Feb 7, 2024 10:45 am110 views

  Oscar Irving-Thomas has been named the Executive Director of Immigrant Services of Champaign-Urbana.