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  EPOL Ph.D. Candidate Alison Reddy Honored with LAS Award

  Feb 10, 2021 8:30 am54 views

  Doctoral student in the Higher Education program Alison Ahlgren Reddy is being recognized by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences with a 2020-2021 LAS Staff and Academic Professional Award.

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  EPOL Ph.D. Alumna Receives Fulbright Specialist Award

  Dec 5, 2023 9:45 am35 views

• EPOL Online EdD Information Session

  Oct 4, 2016 1:00 pm155 views

  College of Education Faculty & Staff are invited to attend this session to get information on this new degree program and engage in Q & A.

  Wednesday November 2, 2016

  12:00 – 1:00

  Room 22 Education

  A light lunch will be served. Feel free to brown bag. 

• EPOL graduate student selected as NEH Summer Scholar

  May 19, 2016 9:00 am87 views

  Katherine Jo, a fourth-year doctoral student in the Department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, has been selected as a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Scholar and will attend one of 23 seminars and institutes supported by NEH.

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  EPOL Graduate Student's Book Published on Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Ed

  Feb 17, 2022 10:00 pm26 views

  Online EPOL graduate student Fawzia Reza is the editor of a new book, just released from Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

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  EPOL Graduate Student Publishes Article in Science Editing

  Mar 19, 2024 11:30 am10 views

  Thong Trinh, a Ph.D. Candidate in Education Policy, Organization & Leadership, published an article in the journal about training doctoral students to alleviate the crisis in academic publishing and the importance of nurturing the next generation of scholars.

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  EPOL Graduate Student Named HRI Graduate Fellow for 2024-25

  Feb 21, 2024 3:00 pm36 views

  Nathan Tanner will conduct research and develop his dissertation or research project and participate in the Fellows Seminar and other related programming.

• EPOL Faculty Present on Migration, Education at Stockholm University

  Sep 24, 2018 8:00 am6 views

  Department of Education Policy, Organization & Leadership (EPOL) faculty members Liv Davila and Linda Herrera gave a Sept. 21 seminar at Stockholm University that focused on refugees, displaced populations, and migration in relation to schooling and livelihoods. The scholars' visit was hosted by Stockholm University professors Anna Lund and Nihad Bunar of the Department of Child and Youth Studies. It was funded through an Illinois-Sweden Program for Educational Research Exchange (INSPIRE) grant to support collaborative research among faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Stockholm University, and the Karolinska Tekniska Högskolan.

• EPOL Doctoral Student Shares Thoughts on History of HBCCs

  May 24, 2024 9:15 am1 views

  H.M. Kuneyl, a third-year doctoral student in Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, recently shared her thoughts in an Open Campus article about the distinct but incomplete history of historically black community colleges (HBCCs), institutions she focuses on in her research. Kuneyl is a research assistant at the Office of Community College Research and Leadership.

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  EPOL Doctoral Student Mostafa Adel Hanafy a Finalist for UK Social Action Award

  Feb 24, 2022 3:30 pm98 views

  Mostafa Hanafy, a PhD student in EPOL's Learning Design and Leadership program, is a finalist for a prestigious award from the United Kingdom.

• EPOL Doctoral Student Lecture 'Autism & Neurodiversity: Reimagining the Strengths of the Human Spectrum'

  Mar 30, 2022 10:00 pm2 views

  EPOL Higher Education doctoral student Kelly Searsmith, MA, PhD, EdM, gave an invited talk, “Autism & Neurodiversity: Reimagining the Strengths of the Human Spectrum,” with research partner Laura DeThorne, CCC-SLP, PhD (Western Michigan University) at the Michigan Speech Language Hearing Association’s Annual Conference in East Lansing on March 25, 2022.

• EPOL Doctoral Student Jack Baldermann Wins 2022 Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Leadership

  May 18, 2022 1:15 pm46 views

  On Thursday, May 12, Westmont (IL) High School Principal and Ed.D. candidate in Education Administration and Leadership Jack Baldermann was honored Thursday with a surprise all-school assembly to announce his Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Leadership.

• EPOL Doctoral Student Cecilia Vaughn-Guy Named 2023 Women’s Congressional Policy Institute Fellow

  Aug 1, 2022 2:00 pm180 views

  Congratulations to Cecilia Vaughn-Guy, working toward her Ph.D. in Human Resource Development and Diversity & Equity in Education, on being selected to the prestigious WCPI Fellowship Program.

• EPOL Doctoral Candidate's Research to be Featured in Art Gallery Exhibit

  May 24, 2022 2:30 pm18 views

  Marlee Bunch, doctoral candidate in Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, researchers the history of African American teachers in Mississippi post-Brown decision. Artwork is being created as a visual compenent to her work and will be on display at Haw Contemporary Gallergy in Kansas City, Missouri, beginning August 26, 2022.

• EPOL doctoral candidate receives grant from NCDA

  Mar 8, 2017 11:00 am15 views

  The research proposal of Gaeun Seo, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Education Policy, Organization & Leadership, has been chosen to receive the Graduate Student Research Grant for 2017 by the National Career Development Association Research Committee.

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  EPOL Doctoral Candidate Passionate About STEM Education in Underserved Communities

  Mar 22, 2021 4:30 pm186 views

  Natalie Coleman, B.S. '02, is a current doctoral candidate in EPOl and founder of After the Peanut, a company based on the core idea of providing STEM educational opportunities for students in underserved communities.

• EPOL doctoral alumnus honored for dissertation

  Jan 26, 2016 9:15 am230 views

  Joel Malin, Ph.D. ’15 EPOL, was honored with the 2015 Outstanding Dissertation Award by the National Education Finance Conference for his dissertation, “Social Makeup and Public School Funding Effort and Distribution.”

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

  May 1, 2023 10:45 am18 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.

• EPOL candidate named director at Purdue University

  May 5, 2016 10:15 am196 views

  Department of Education Policy, Organization & Leadership doctoral candidate Xavier Hernandez has been selected as the next director of the Asian American and Asian Resource and Cultural Center at Purdue University. Hernandez is currently a graduate assistant at the Asian American Cultural Center at the University of Illinois.

• EPOL Assistant Professor Nathan Castillo Recognized For Recent Publication

  Aug 7, 2019 2:15 pm554 views

  Assistant Professor in Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, Nathan Castillo's recent publication was named SpringerLink Editor's Monthly Choice.

  Castillo's paper—Early-grade reading support in rural South Africa: A language-centered technology approach—describes a short-term study conducted in low-performing rural primary schools in South Africa.

  For the month of August you can download Castillo's paper on SpringerLink for free. 

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  EPOL Alum Publishes New Book

  Nov 1, 2023 8:45 am38 views

  Marlee Bunch, Ed.D. '22 EPOL, has written the book, which will be out in 2024, titled The Magnitude of Us: An Educator's Guide to Creating Collaborative & Culturally Responsive Classrooms.

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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. 

  
  

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.
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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.

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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.

• 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.

• 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.

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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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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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.

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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.

• 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.

• 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.

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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 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.

• 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 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 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 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 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.

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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 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.

• 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 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.