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• Aiman Ghani, ElEd '22, Named a U. of I. Fulbright Student Scholar

  Jun 10, 2022 12:00 pm62 views

  Sixteen University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students and recent graduates were offered Fulbright grants to pursue international education, research, and teaching experiences around the globe this coming year. Another six Illinois students were named Fulbright alternates.

  The Fulbright U.S. Student Program builds international relationships to help solve global challenges. This flagship international educational exchange program of the U.S. government awards grants to students based on their academic and professional achievement, as well as their ambassadorial skills and leadership potential. The Fulbright student program will fund approximately 2,200 U.S. citizens to live abroad for the 2022-23 academic year.

• AISO updates name to GSSO

  Aug 14, 2015 8:45 am25 views

  The Academic and Instructional Services Office (AISO) has changed its name to the Graduate Student Services Office (GSSO).

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  All Are Invited to the Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration

  Sep 21, 2021 1:30 pm62 views

  The Gies Access and Multicultural Engagement Team want to extend an invite to our College of Education neighbors to join us for our Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration scheduled for Wednesday, October 6 from 4 to 7 pm on the Sixth Street Lawn (the grassy area between BIF and KAM).

• Alum Matt Linick Featured in Institute of Education Sciences Video

  May 24, 2019 4:15 pm19 views

  Former graduate Matt Linick is highlighted in a What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) post about how Cleveland Public Schools uses the WWC to inform policy and practice.

• Alumna and EPOL Lecturer Asia Fuller Hamilton Named Principal of Garden Hills Academy

  Apr 15, 2020 3:00 pm142 views

  Congratulations to Asia Fuller Hamilton, M.Ed. EOL '07, PhD EPOL '17, who has been named the new principal of Garden Hills Academy in Champaign's Unit 4 School District.

• Alumna Ebonie Durham, Ed.M. '14, EAL, Named Pahara-NextGen Fellow

  Dec 6, 2019 2:45 pm49 views

  Congratulations to Educational Administration & Leadership alumna Ebonie Durham, who has been named a Pahara Institute Next-Gen Fellow for their Winter 2020 cohort.

• Alumna Evthokia Stephanie Saclarides Featured in Latest Podcast from Math Teacher Educator Journal

  Jun 9, 2023 12:00 pm18 views

  Check out the latest podcast from the Math Teacher Educator Journal featuring C&I alumna Evthokia Stephanie Saclarides, Ph.D., now at the University of Cincinnati.

• Alumna expounds on benefits of utilizing librarians

  Jan 18, 2017 2:30 pm8 views

  Regina Sierra Carter, Ph.D. ’16 EPOL, is a teaching and learning librarian at the University of Virginia who recently contributed a piece to Inside Higher Ed called “Hidden Figures: Librarians.”

• Alumna, Husband Receive 2018 Lou Liay Spirit Award

  Oct 9, 2018 4:30 pm0 views

  Pat Meyers Giles '69 C&I and her husband, Bob, are the recipients of this year's Lou Liay Spirit Award, an honor established in 1997 to recognize graduates who consistently display extraordinary spirit and pride toward the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

• Alumna Karen Graves receives Brickman Teaching Award from Denison University

  May 17, 2019 4:00 pm117 views

  Denison University honored an outstanding professor with the prestigious Charles A. Brickman Teaching Excellence Award at the college’s Academic Awards Convocation held on Friday, April 12, in Swasey Chapel. Karen Graves, professor of educational studies, was honored with the 2019 Brickman award, which is given to members of the faculty who are master craftsmen in the profession and models of dedication to students and to student learning. The recipient has demonstrated a vibrant interest in the learning process, as well as an understanding of teaching as a continuously evolving art form.

  Graves joined Denison in 1993. She holds a B.S., M.Ed., and Ph.D., from the University of llinois, Urbana-Champaign. Graves is a professor and chair of the Department of Education. 

• Alumna named principal of Nationally Honored Arcadia Elementary School

  Jun 22, 2017 2:30 pm41 views

  Stephanie Newman Healy ’02 C&I has been appointed principal of Arcadia Elementary School, which was named a Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Office of Education in recognition of its ranking among the top 10 percent of Illinois schools.

• Alumna Shalonda Carr a finalist for national award

  Jan 17, 2017 12:00 pm12 views

  Shalonda Carr, Ed.M. ’06 C&I, a teacher at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary and a cooperating teacher of the College of Education, has been selected as a state finalist for the 2015-2016 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching. The award is known as the highest national recognition teachers of math and science can receive.

• Alumna Shawna Cooper-Gibson Appointed Vice President of Student Services at Seton Hall University

  Oct 1, 2019 4:15 pm90 views

  Shawna Cooper-Gibson, Ed.D., a national leader in academic, co-curricular and multicultural student development, has been appointed Vice President of Student Services. Cooper-Gibson currently serves as the Assistant Provost for Student Academic Services at Loyola University Chicago and will officially begin her new position on October 14, 2019.

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  Alumna Tatyana McFadden to Compete in Sixth Paralymic Games

  Jul 1, 2021 2:15 pm43 views

  Education alumna Tatyana McFadden, who trains at the Division of Disability Resources and Educational Services (DRES) on campus, is among the 18 Illini chosen to represent Team USA in the Paralympic Games happening in Tokyo, Japan, later this summer.

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  Alumnus and Former Associate Professor Emeritus Dr. John Trach Passes Away

  Dec 18, 2023 11:30 am156 views

  Dr. Trach, Ph.D. '89 SPED, and associate professor emeritus in Special Education, passed on December 9, 2023. 

• Alumnus Freeman Hrabowski receives national lifetime achievement award

  Feb 28, 2018 2:15 pm1 views

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III, Ph.D. 75 Ed., the nationally known president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, has earned a prestigious lifetime achievement award from a higher education organization.

  The American Council on Education will present the award—which is not given every year—to Hrabowski at its annual meeting next week.

  Learn more...

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  Alumnus Joseph Pickell, Ed.M. '12 C&I, Receives CU Schools Foundation Award

  May 24, 2021 4:15 pm43 views

  Joseph Pickell, Franklin STEAM Academy 6th grade Social Studies teacher, was surprised with the Mann-Hankel Teaching Excellence Award from the Champaign Urbana Schools Foundation during his 6th grade social studies class on Friday, the last day of school.  This is the first year for this award, established by Barbara Mann and her husband Steven Hankel.  The award recognizes a Unit 4 tenured teacher who exemplifies the traits of Dedication, Integrity, Commitment to Every Student, Service, & Excellence.

• Alumnus named executive director at Society for Vascular Surgery

  May 11, 2016 2:45 pm91 views

  Kenneth M. Slaw, Ph.D. '87 Ed.Psych., has been named executive director at the Society for Vascular Surgery, a nonprofit medical society made up of specialty-trained vascular surgeons.

• Alumnus reflects on ‘the way we were’ in new book

  Mar 14, 2017 10:15 am25 views

  Alumnus Michael Woods spent nearly 50 years as a teacher and coach in public schools and as an Illinois faculty member. Basketball was a major part of his youth, which he reflects on in a new book he wrote called The Game: The Way We Were to the Way We Are.

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  Alumnus Royel Johnson, EdM '10, EPS, Cited as Emerging Scholar

  Jan 31, 2020 1:00 pm44 views

  Royel M. Johnson, EdM '10, EPS, now assistant professor of higher education within the Department of Education Policy Studies in the Penn State College of Education, has been selected as an Emerging Scholar Designee by the American College Personnel Association (ACPA), a comprehensive student affairs organization that engages students for a lifetime of learning and discovery. He will receive the award at the ACPA20 convention to be held March 2-5 in Nashville, Tennessee.

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  Alumnus Royel Johnson Named Co-Editor of AERA Educational Researcher Journal

  Sep 11, 2023 3:30 pm0 views

  Johnson is a two-time Illinois graduate with a master's degree in Education Policy, Organization and Leadership. He is currently an associate professor at the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California.

• Alumnus Scott Woods recognized for outstanding research in middle-level education

  Apr 23, 2018 2:30 pm199 views

  College of Education alumnus Scott C. Woods is the recipient of this year’s Graduate Student Award from the Middle Level Education Research Special Interest Group, an affiliate of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

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  Alumnus Tyrone Williams, Jr., Named 2023 Illinois History Teacher of the Year

  Aug 2, 2023 3:15 pm128 views

  Tyrone Williams, Jr., a three-time University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign degree earner and a two-time College of Education alumnus, has been named the 2023 Illinois History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

  
  

• Ananya Tiwari, EPSY Doctoral Candidate, Wins Illinois Innovation Prize for SwaTaleem Foundation

  Apr 3, 2020 2:00 pm85 views

  Congratulations to Ananya Tiwari, PhD candidate in Educational Psychology, for winning the Illinois Innovation Prize! She is transforming government schools in remote parts of India into model schools to increase educational outcomes for young girls.

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  Ananya Tiwari Named 2020-2021 YMCA Fred S. Bailey Fellow

  Aug 24, 2020 4:00 pm62 views

  For her contributions and acheivements to community leadership, service, and activism, Educational Psychology PhD candidate Ananya Tiwari has been awarded one of two 2020-2021 YMCA Fred S. Bailey Fellowships for graduate students and professionals on campus.

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  Ananya Tiwari Receives International Dissertation Fellowship

  Jun 24, 2021 2:15 pm46 views

  EPSY doctoral candidate Ananya Tiwari recently received the Rita and Arnold Goodman Fellowship, supportsing graduate students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who work in the field of women, gender, and international development issues.

• Announcement of Faculty Promotions

  May 8, 2020 2:15 pm511 views

  James D. Anderson, Dean, is extremely pleased to announce the promotion in rank of four College of Education faculty members. Congratulations to the following faculty on achieving these exceptional milestones.

• Announcement of Faculty Promotions

  Jul 9, 2019 2:45 pm1355 views

  College of Education Dean announces the promotion of nine faculty members.

• Announcing New Book by James G. Shriner et.al: Developing Educationally Meaningful and Legally Sound IEPs

  Sep 8, 2021 4:15 pm8 views

  Hot off the presses, Special Education faculty member James Shriner is an author of a new book on IEPs.

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  Announcing our 2021 Distinguished Alumni & Young Alumni Achievement Awardees

  Aug 18, 2021 12:30 pm796 views

  On behalf of the College of Education, the Office of Advancement is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2021 Distinguished Alumni and Young Alumni Achievement Awards.

• Announcing the 2022 College of Education Public Engagement Faculty Fellows Program

  Nov 30, 2021 8:15 am49 views

  The new Public Engagement Faculty Fellows Program is open to full-time faculty with their primary appointment in the College of Education. A maximum of three faculty fellows will be selected for the 2022-2023 academic year. Faculty at the assistant professor level are especially encouraged to apply.

• Announcing the College of Education Volunteer Week: July 25-29, 2022

  Jul 5, 2022 4:45 pm34 views

  We are pleased to announce the inaugural College of Education Volunteer Week July 25-29, 2022. Before his retirement, Dean Anderson approved faculty and staff to use OPL (other paid leave time) for 1-3 hours of community volunteering during the week of July 25-29, 2022.

• Annual free book jackets & posters giveaway

  Nov 4, 2016 11:30 am7 views

  It is time once again for the SSHEL book jacket and poster giveaway!

  This year the festivities take place the week of November 7th through the 11th in the Social Sciences, Health, and Education Library (100 Main Library). The giveaway will be going on during all hours that SSHEL is open.

  The fun begins in the School Collection Room (Room 112) at 9:00 a.m. on Monday, November 7th. Come and pick up free posters, book jackets, and more!  Posters and book jackets are a great resource for:

  - decorating your classroom or office

  - book talk visual aids

  - art projects

  - library displays

  - creative writing (have students predict or create a story from the picture/title and write about it)

  Please share this information with anyone who might be interested. We will be giving the posters and book jackets away until they are all gone.

  If you have any questions about this event, please call the Social Sciences, Health, and Education Library (217-244-1864) or email Nancy O'Brien (npobrien@illinois.edu).

• Annual free book jackets & posters giveaway in Library

  Nov 6, 2014 12:15 pm23 views

  It is time once again for the SSHEL book jacket and poster giveaway! This year the festivities take place the week of November 10th through the 14th in the Social Sciences, Health, and Education Library (100 Main Library). The giveaway will be going on during all hours that SSHEL is open. The fun begins in the School Collection Room (Room 112) at 9:00 a.m. on Monday, November 10th. Come and pick up free posters, book jackets, and more! Posters and book jackets are a great resource for:

  • decorating your classroom or office

  • book talk visual aids

  • art projects

  • library displays

  • creative writing (have students predict or create a story from the picture/title and write about it)

  Please share this information with anyone who might be interested. We will be giving the posters and book jackets away until they are all gone. If you have any questions about this event, feel free to call the Social Sciences, Health, and Education Library (217-244-1864) or email Nancy O'Brien (npobrien@illinois.edu).

• Annual Goldstick Family Lecture in the Study of Communication Disorders

  Oct 3, 2016 3:00 pm7 views

   

  Enlisting Parents as Therapists: A Distance-Delivered, Parent-Implemented Language Intervention for Individuals with Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities

  Thursday, October 27, 2016

  4:00-5:30 p.m.

  Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801

  Guest Scholar and Speaker: Dr. Leonard Abbeduto, University of California, DavisDirector, UC Davis MIND Institute and Tsakopoulos-Vismara Endowed Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine

  Dr. Abbeduto's research focuses on the development of language across the lifespan in individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders. His current projects focus on the factors accounting for variation in the course of language in children, adolescents, and young adults with fragile X syndrome, autism, and Down syndrome.

• Application Deadline Extended for Study Abroad Trip to Tarragona, Spain

  Feb 13, 2017 3:00 pm7 views

  The College of Education at Illinois is offering an eight-week course—one week of which is in Spain—that will provide students with an overview of education in Spain and a comparative experience between European and American education systems. The experience in Tarragona, Spain, includes a visit to Barcelona!

• Apply for GLOBE Fall 2020

  Apr 23, 2020 10:30 pm34 views

  Apply today to become a GLOBE member! Accepting Blue applications now, priority date is July 1, 2020. Orange applications will be open soon. Details and application links: go.illinois.edu/globe. 

  Global Leaders Orange and Blue Engagement (GLOBE) offers current students an opportunity to make connections with Orange members (new incoming students), build intercultural communication skills, leadership experience, and lifelong friendships.

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  Apply to GLOBE for Leadership Opportunities and to Expand your Global Competency!

  Apr 2, 2019 6:00 pm1 views

  Looking for leadership opportunities that will better prepare you to work with your future students? GLOBE (Global Leaders Orange and Blue Engagement) is a program with International Education that groups domestic and international students together to collaboratively learn about each other's cultures, perspectives, and values. In an increasingly pluralistic and global society, GLOBE offers teacher candidates a great opportunity to learn first-hand about the cultures and people we will be working with in the future. Apply at go.illinois.edu/globe.

• A question for College's 'Those Who Excel' honoree

  Oct 20, 2016 10:00 am9 views

  Prior to the Oct. 22 Those Who Excel/Teacher of the year banquet in Normal, Ill., The News-Gazette asked some of the honorees: What does it mean to excel as an educator in today’s climate? Victor Perez, who coordinates the SOAR program, said that educators must continue to identify the most pressing needs in schools and communities, and that collaborations and partnerships are keys to success.

• Arcasia James-Gallaway Receives Ford Foundation Fellowship

  Mar 22, 2019 3:45 pm987 views

  Congratulations to Arcasia James-Gallaway, doctoral student in Education Policy, Organization & Leadership, for being selected as a 2019 Ford Foundation Fellow.  

• Arlette Willis Honored with John J. Gumperz Memorial Award for Distinguished Lifetime Scholarship from AERA

  Apr 3, 2019 6:00 pm15 views

  Professor Arlette Willis will receive this award at the 2019 AERA Annual Meeting from the Language and Social Processes special interest group (SIG).

• Art-based research exhibition on view: DRAWING IN/DRAWING OUT: Ethnicity and Culture in Perspective

  May 18, 2016 10:45 am6 views

  Exhibition on display May 2nd – June 22nd for viewing between 9am-5pm Monday-Friday

  Women’s Resources Center703 S. Wright St. 2nd floor, Champaign, IL 61820 (next to Cocomero)

  Closing ReceptionWed. June 15th 4PM-5:30PM | Curator’s Talk at 5PMWomen’s Resources Center (703 S. Wright St. 2nd Fl. Champaign, 61820)Refreshments will be provided.  Free and open to the public.

  This exhibition features an art-based research study conducted by (Elka) Elzbieta Kazmierczak, MFA, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership. Participants of the study–students and C-U community members–expressed how they feel about their ethnic and cultural identities through drawings titled, Inside Me-Outside Me. About 50 colorful drawings and narratives are featured in the show, along with visualizations of the study results.

  Note: Many of the study/exhibition participants were recruited from the College of Education.

• Art for Health & Unity Competition: Protect & Respect

  Apr 29, 2021 4:15 pm20 views

  Calling all artists! The 2021 Art for Health & Unity Competition was created to reward artists for contributions toward preventing COVID-19 and inspiring our community to be a better place for all. Artists of all ages are invited to submit original art to the community-wide competition. 

• Ashley M. Davis Named Strive Awardee from Illinois Women's Resource Center

  Mar 31, 2020 3:00 pm184 views

  Ashley Davis, Visiting Coordinator for Undergraduate Recruitment and Career Services, is the winner of the Advocate Award, part of the larger Strive Awards from the Illinois Women's Resource Center.

• Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Youth Literature: APALA's Evaluation Rubric

  Apr 5, 2022 11:00 am6 views

  Interested in learning about how to build inclusive, respectful collections and syllabi centering Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders? Join The Center for Children’s Books and a panel of children’s literature scholars and practicing librarians for a virtual discussion... 

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  Asif Wilson Awarded with Early Career Scholar Award

  Nov 28, 2023 11:15 am38 views

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

  Feb 7, 2023 1:00 pm52 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.

• A special ambassador

  Jun 29, 2016 2:30 pm9 views

  The dedication and commitment of Champaign resident Phyllis Robeson, Ed.M. '58 Ed., as an ambassador of the Youth Literature Festival has helped make the event exceptional.

• A special opportunity for teachers

  Jul 1, 2016 8:15 am41 views

  Teachers: Don't miss this special opportunity to earn professional development hours by attending a workshop with Youth Literature Festival authors Sharon Flake and Matt de la Pena.

• Assistant director of online programs to serve as moderator at retreat

  Jun 7, 2017 10:30 am15 views

  Dr. Mila Thomas Fuller, assistant director of online programs at the College of Education and president of the board of directors for the International Society for Technology in Education, will serve as guest moderator for a breakout session at the June 16 All-Staff Retreat for Minority Recruitment and Retention.