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  • Professor Emerita Lilian Katz receives Friend of Children Award

    Professor Emerita Lilian Katz is presented with the Friend of Children Award at the Southern Early Childhood Association annual conference. 

  • Professor Adrienne Dixson Named a 2021 AERA Fellow

    Congratulations to professor of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership Adrienne D. Dixson on being selected as a 2021 AERA Fellow by the American Educational Research Association.

  • Jill Donnel

    Jill Donnel Selected as Council on Teacher Education's Executive Director

    Join us in welcoming Jill Donnel, Ed.D., to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as Executive Director of the Council on Teacher Education. Most recently, Donnel served as Assistant Director for Undergraduate Programs and Advising at Illinois State University's College of Education, School of Teaching, one of the largest teacher preparation departments in the nation.

  • Kutasha Bryan-Silva, C&I Doctoral Student, Receives Fulbright Grant

    The goal of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program is to build international relationships to help solve global challenges. Bryan-Silva was awarded a Fulbright grant to conduct nine months of dissertation research in Montevideo, Uruguay.

  • Special Education's Magen Rooney-Kron Wins 2019 AAIDD Research Interest Network Scholarship

    Magen Rooney-Kron, doctoral student in the Department of Special Education, has won a 2019 Research Interest Network Scholarship from the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD).

  • Hedda Meadan-Kaplansky

    Meadan-Kaplansky Receives $2M Institute of Education Sciences Grant

    The study, which will be conducted in partnership with Michigan State University, will evaluate Family Telepractice Augmentative and Alternative Communication Modeling (FamTAM) Intervention. Meadan-Kaplansky will serve as co-PI, and work with IT Partners at Education to develop a digital learning platform.

  • EPOL's Rachel Roegman Selected as Illinois Leadership Center Faculty Fellow

    Assistant professor Rachel Roegman has been selected to be part of the Illinois Leadership Center (ILC) Faculty Fellows for the 2019-2020 academic year.

  • EPOL Online EdD Information Session

    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. 

  • Jennifer Delaney receives Outstanding Article of the Year Award

    Dr. Jennifer Delaney, an associate professor in the Department of Education Policy, Organization & Leadership, has received the Outstanding Article of the Year Award from the Journal of Education Finance.

  • Upcoming registration for Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK)

    The Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK) is broadly recognized by Chinese educational institutions and employers and provides Chinese learners a means to assess their proficiency. The Confucius Institute at Illinois serves as a test center for the online HSK test, two of which will be available to take on April 16 at the Education building.

     

     

  • Navigating The Doctoral Journey Seminar

    Join the Higher Education Division of EPOL as we help you prepare to navigate what can be the most isolating portion of your doctoral journey. Learn tips from current doctoral students as well as recent dissertation defenders.

     

    Higher Education Qualifying Exam Prep Session

    Thursday, April 14, 2016

    12-1 pm

    210a Education

    Faculty Presenters: Dr. Denise Hood, Dr. Eboni Zamani- Gallaher

    Student Panelists:

    Jasmine Collins, Randi Congleton, and Erika Hackman

    Moving from Post-Quals Slump to Dissertation Defense

    1-2pm

    210a Education

    Panelists:

    Sarah Zehr, Miz Lavizzo, Daniel Collier, Derek Houston

  • Lecture and Colloquium by Professor Emerita Nancy Folbre

    Author and Professor Emerita of Economics Nancy Folbre, of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, will be the speaker of a Sept. 17 lecture and discussion titled "The Rise and Fall of Public Higher Education." She will also host a colloquium earlier in the day, sponsored by the College of Education and the Forum on the Future of Public Education.

  • Hiring Interns for Summer 2021 - SwaTaleem Foundation

    SwaTaleem Foundation Hiring Interns for Summer 2021

    SwaTaleem is an international non-profit that works with historically marginalized adolescent girls that are prone to child marriage, their parents, teachers, and local government officials in some of the remote parts of India to ensure quality education and critical life skills. COVID-19 has exacerbated the challenges these girls face even more, and our work has become extremely crucial!

  • EPOL Professor Ron Jacobs Inducted into AHRD Scholar Hall of Fame

    Congratulations to Dr. Ronald Jacobs, who has been inducted into the Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD) Scholar Hall of Fame. Jacobs will be honored at AHRD's Annual Conference in Atlanta on February 28.

  • Beth Kirchgesner

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

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

  • Education at Illinois Members Honored with Ebony Excellence Awards

    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. 

  • Five New Projects Awarded Spring 2021 COVID-19 Seed Funds

    The Bureau of Educational Research and the College Research Committee are pleased to announce five Spring 2021 COVID-19 seed grant awards.

  • HRI Offering Free Virtual Academic Writing Retreat Through Inkwell

    The Humanities Research Institute at Illinois is sponsoring a full-day virtual academic writing retreat on June 28, 2021 for faculty and graduate students (must be UIUC-affiliated). There is no charge to units or individuals, as HRI is covering the cost. And it’s not limited to the humanities—participants from all disciplines are encouraged to attend! 

  • Porshe Garner Wins 2019 AERA Arts Based Educational Research SIG Outstanding Dissertation Award

    Congratulations to Education Policy, Organization & Leadership's Porshe Garner, Ph.D, who is the recipient of the AERA Arts Based Educational Research (ABER) Outstanding Dissertation Award for the best Doctoral Dissertation that explores, is an exemplar of, and pushes the boundaries of arts-based educational research. Garner will present highlights from her dissertation at the Annual Meeting.

  • Homecoming 2015

    College of Education Faculty, Students, and Staff are invited to attend the Homecoming Parade Party on the North side of the College of Education on October 23, 5:00 pm.  Join Alumni of our College, students from University Primary School, and current College of Education students as we launch our float, enjoy food and games for students of all ages.  The Marching Illini will play for us! Join us in this celebration of Education and the lasting impact on Alumni.

  • Dr. Reitu Mabokela

    Reitu Obakeng Mabokela Awarded Honorary Doctorate from University of Pretoria

    College of Education alumna, vice provost for International Affairs and Global Strategies, and professor of EPOL Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela has been awarded an honorary doctorate in Education from the University of Pretoria, in South Africa.

  • Illini Fest Paints Chicago Orange and Blue

    Illini friends and family packed the Park Grill Plaza in Millennium Park on the afternoon of July 18 for the first-ever Illini Fest event. University units and colleges had their orange and blue on display for hundreds of Chicagoans passing by the Bean, including Illinois alumni, current students, and even future Illini.

  • Special Education Department Seeking PhD Students for Five Programs

    Four new awards this fall from the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) make for five projects that the Special Education department is currently recruiting doctoral students to particpate in starting Fall 2020.

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

    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.

  • Special Education's Nikki Adams Named to ECPC/DEC Leadership Cohort

    Nikki Adams, doctoral student in the Department of Special Education, has been accepted to the Early Childhood Personnel Center and Division for Early Childhood 2020 Early Childhood Intervention Leadership Cohort.

  • Prof. Gloriana González Awarded NSF Funding for Project with University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras

    C&I professor's funded research project is titled, Developing Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Pre-service Math Teachers by Enhancement of a Methods Course Using Instrumental Orchestration and Lesson Study Strategies.

  • Your Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) Can Fund Programs in the College of Education

    You can make a tax-free distribution from your IRA directly to the University of Illinois Foundation and support scholarships, fellowships, or programming in the College of Education.

  • Education Justice Project Receives Funding from Laughing Gull Foundation

    "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.

  • Online EPOL Ed.D. Student Irish Farley Published in TESOL Connections

    Online EPOL Ed.D. student Irish Farley recently co-authored an article published in TESOL Connections monthly e-newsletter titled "How to Make Coteaching Work Virtually: Know Your People".

  • Campus Thefts: Take Precautions

    There have been an unusually high number of thefts reported on campus this semester. Please be mindful of your surrondings and personal belongings. Additionally, please lock your office doors everytime you leave your office. University equipment has also been reported stolen. If you see any suspicious activity, please report it to the nearest Administrative Office or Campus Police.

  • 2015 Student Recognition Brunch

    Dean Mary Kalantzis invites you to join us in honoring our student award recipients for the 2015-2016 academic school year.

    Saturday, November 7, 2015

    I Hotel and Conference Center, Illinois Ballroom

    1900 S. First St., Champaign, IL

    Parking is available on the east side of the building.

    9:30 a.m. registration

    10 a.m. brunch and ceremony

    Please RSVP online by October 26, 2015.

    Students are responsible for registering their guests.

    Registration fee for guests of students is $20 per person.

    Students, faculty/staff, scholarship donors,

    and children under 7 may attend at no charge.

    Questions? Please call 217-244-7228 or email advancement@education.illinois.edu.

  • College's First COVID-19 Research Seed Funding Awards Named

    The Bureau of Educational Research and the College Research Committee are pleased to announce the first COVID-19 Seed Grant awards.

  • Monica Gonzalez Ybarra

    C&I's Monica Gonzalez Ybarra Wins 2020 Award from NCTE

    The National Council of Teachers of English have recognized C&I's Monica Gonzalez Ybarra with a 2020 Alan C. Purves Honorable Mention award for her article “We Have a Strong Way of Thinking…and It Shows through Our Words”: Exploring Mujerista Literacies with Chicana/Latina Youth in a Community Ethnic Studies Course.

  • James Lee, SPED PhD Candidate, Wins 2020 Outstanding Graduate Student Leader Award from AACC

    Congratulations to PhD student in Special Education, James D. Lee, on winning the 2020 Outstanding Asian and Asian American Graduate Student Leader Award from the campus' Asian American Cultural Center.

  • Dean Anderson Quoted in Forbes Article about Success of HBCUs

    HBCUs have maintained their positive institutional identities. They understand that to be well-educated means more than narrow vocational focus. Dr. James D. Anderson, dean of the College of Education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and leading historian of HBCUs, told me that during his time at Stillman College, students were expected to master the literary arts regardless of their particular major.

  • Dr. Laura Taylor

    Taylor Comes Home to Urbana School District

    Dr. Laura Taylor was appointed as the Executive Director of Leadership Development for Urbana School District #116.

  • EPOL alumna selected for Fulbright Scholar Award

    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.

  • Rajmohan Ghandi Speaks on his Grandfather's Impact and Legacy

    As the world begins celebrating Gandhi’s 150th birthday, Rajmohan Gandhi, research professor of Educational Policy, Organization and Leadership, discusses his grandfather’s legacy.

  • Denise Hood

    Denice Hood Named Interim CREA Director

  • Wireless Network Update Coming in June in Education Buildings

    On the week of June 6, Technology Services will be replacing, one by one, each wireless access point (AP) in the Education Building and at Col Wolfe.

    Please expect to see Technology Services technicians in these locations.

    Impact is expected to be nominal, but a brief outage of each AP will occur as it is replaced. 

  • Course Announcement: CI 437 Educational Game Design

    Course Announcement - Spring 2015

     

    New Course!

    CI 437 A: Educational Game Design

    Spring 2015

    Instructor: Robb Lindgren, robblind@illinois.edu 

    Meeting Time: Tuesday/Thursday 2-3:20pm 

    Location: Education Room 42A

    Credit: 3 hours undergrad/4 hours grad

    CRN: 62106

    How do you design a game that is fun to play, but also helps people to learn something important? This course looks at how both physical games (board games, card games) and digital games can be designed to teach people important concepts and skills in a variety of areas. Combining strategies from the game design industry with research on how people learn, students in this course will create original games that have educational value. In class discussions and small-group activities, students will examine games from various viewpoints in order to understand the most effective ways to deliver instructional content. The course will survey and sample many types of educational games (e.g., serious games, games for impact, persuasive games) and in many formats (e.g., console games, online games, board games).

  • Tyrone Williams Jr.

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

    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.


  • Middle Grades endorsement courses ending after this summer

    Courses for the Middle Grades endorsement online will be offered for the last time this summer.

  • Fall 2020 EPOL 409 Sociology of Education Foundations & LES Course

    EPOL 409 Sociology of Education (formerly EPS 420), Tuesday, 3:00 to 4:50 p.m., Room 323 EDUC Bldg

    Professor: Dr. Bernice Barnett (PhD in Sociology; email: bmbarnet@illinois.edu)

    EPOL 409 section A; 4-Hours for Graduate Students: CRN #73293 

    EPOL 409 section B; 3-Hours for Undergraduates: CRN #73294 

  • Graduate Student Senior Editor for Undergrad Journal

    The Ethnography of the University Initiative (EUI) is proud to announce the launch of its undergraduate research journal PEER REVIEW: The Undergraduate Research Journal of the Ethnography of the University Initiative. We are currently looking for a graduate student to serve as Senior Editor, working with the journal’s undergraduate student Managing Editors, faculty mentors, and the journal Advisory Board.

  • The future of educational technologies

    Chad Lane, an associate professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, has co-edited an article that looks to the future of the organization Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED). The piece is titled “The Next 25 Years: How Advanced Interactive Learning Technologies will Change the World” and is the second part of AIED’s special-edition journals that recognize the organization’s 25th anniversary.

  • College of Education On-Site Researcher Background Checks--September 3, 2014

    Dear College of Education Researchers,

    Accurate Biometrics will be on site on Wednesday, September 3, 2014, between 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. to administer fingerprint criminal background checks at the College of Education, Room 160.

    This on-site background check is available to school researchers ONLY.  Students who are part of teacher education programs who need background checks for the Council on Teacher Education (CoTE) must make individual appointments at an Accurate Biometrics location of their choice.

    IF YOU ARE CONDUCTING RESEARCH IN LOCAL SCHOOLS THIS ACADEMIC YEAR:             

    Visit the Bureau of Educational Research (College of Education Building, Room 38) between August 25th and September 2nd to secure your 5-minute appointment time with an Accurate Biometrics representative on the date and times listed above.  This will be the only date during fall semester that an Accurate Biometrics representative will be on site at the College.  We encourage you to take advantage of this service as background check requests that fall outside of this window of opportunity will require researchers to visit the local Accurate Biometrics office.

    WHAT TO BRING TO YOUR APPOINTMENT:

    1.  A valid government-issued picture ID (i.e. driver’s license, State ID, or passport).  School IDs WILL NOT be accepted.
    2. Payment of $30.00 is required at the time of fingerprinting, and may be made via  money order made out to Accurate Biometrics.  NO CASH or PERSONAL CHECKS will be accepted.  Although money orders are preferred, credit and debit card payments will be accepted with a mandatory $2.00 service fee assessment.

    Other important information:

    • You will be given a computer-generated receipt upon completion of the fingerprinting process.  If a research grant will cover the cost of the background check, the researcher must first pay the fee to Accurate Biometrics and submit the receipt, along with the approval of the Principal Investigator, to the College Business Office for reimbursement.
    • The results of the background check will be sent by the Illinois State Police directly to the agency/individual requesting it on the form you complete.  AT NO TIME will Accurate Biometrics receive the criminal history response.
    • If you miss Accurate Biometrics’ on-site services on the date provided above, you will need to complete the form provided and visit their Champaign location (or another location most convenient to you).  Please check their website often at www.accuratebiometrics.com for the most up-to-date hours of operation & locations.  Hours of operation in the Champaign office vary, but are currently Monday & Thursday from 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., and occasional Saturdays from 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.  The Champaign office is located at 701 Devonshire Drive, Suite 140, Champaign, IL.  The phone number is (866) 361-9944.
    • If the researcher has had a background check done previously in the State of Illinois and can provide the appropriate verification, it may be acceptable for research in schools.  Please bring your documentation to the Bureau office for approval and entry into the Bureau system.

     

    Bureau of Educational Research

    College of Education

  • The Goldstick Family Lecture in the Study of Communication Disorders

    Guest scholar Dr. Brian A. Boyd will speak at the 11th annual Goldstick Family Lecture in the Study of Communication Disorders.

  • EPSY 590RK: Questionnaire Design for Educational and Social Science Research

    Questionnaire Design for Educational and Social Science Research

    EPSY590RK    Spring 2014    CRN: 587000

    Instructor:    Katherine Ryan (k-ryan6@illinois.edu)

    Time:           Wednesday, 1:00 - 3:50 p.m.  

    The survey interview involves an interviewer asking a respondent questions face-to face, via computer, etc. to obtain information. This is a course that focuses on the cognitive and social aspects of sample surveys. In this course, students will develop an understanding of basic survey data collection methods particularly those that apply to formal and informal settings with research applications in education and social sciences. The course introduces students to the scientific literature on the design, testing and evaluation of questionnaires (e.g., structured, semi-structured). Students will engage in a series of exercises in the development of a questionnaire. Topics covered include the question-answer process, open-ended and pre-coded questions, rating scale design, reliability, validity, and scale construction, testing and evaluating questionnaires (e.g., cognitive interview, expert review), and analyzing results.

     

     

  • Save the Date for Illini Fest, Happening (Virtually) on March 7, 2021

    Be entertained by U. of I. musical groups and athletes; by people who have overcome great odds to become Illini. Be awed by the collective brain power that leads to new discoveries. Be inspired by minds and hearts determined to bring a brighter future. Be connected to old friends and new in the chat. And be Powerful Together as we celebrate what makes the U. of I. amazing.