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

  Feb 9, 2021 5:00 pm123 views

  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.

• 12th Annual Chancellor's Academy: Making Teaching and Learning Visible

  Jun 2, 2015 1:00 pm123 views

  The Center for Education in Small Urban Communities will host the 12th annual Chancellor’s Academy June 22-24, 2015. This year’s theme, “Making Teaching and Learning Visible,” sets the tone and focus of the center’s professional development efforts as it moves forward.

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  Recognizing How COVID-19 and Injustices Produce Racial Battle Fatigue in African American P-16 Students, Families, and Educators in the U.S.

  Jun 24, 2020 5:45 pm123 views

  On June 29, join Dr. William A. Smith, Professor of Education, Culture & Society at the University of Utah, along with our other distinguished panelists, to discuss how COVID-19 and Injustices Produce Racial Battle Fatigue in Students, Families, and Educators in Pre-K through Grad School.

• Course Announcement: EPSY 590 IPP "Preparing Future Faculty"

  Aug 20, 2013 8:49 am123 views

  Are you finishing your doctoral degree in the near future and want support and guidance in entering the job market?   If so, this seminar is for you. Open to all graduate students in Education, we will cover topics such as:

  Conducting a Job Search: Writing a CV, Crafting a Cover Letter

  Getting the Job: Interviewing, Negotiating an Offer

  Managing the Job: Launching a Program of Research, Work/Life Balance

  Although the course is geared to students seeking academic positions, we will devote some time considering job searches outside of academics. This course is most appropriate for students who are at the dissertation stage.

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  Span Named Dean of Graduate School of Education at Rutgers

  Apr 9, 2024 3:45 pm122 views

  Span received his Ph.D. from Illinois in 2001 and was a member of the faculty since 2003. He will begin his role as dean on July 1, 2024.

• Invitation to attend a workshop on ... Complex Problem Solving and Critical Thinking: Online Tools and Computational Approaches

  Nov 3, 2015 11:15 am122 views

  Invitation to attend a workshop on ...

  Complex Problem Solving and Critical Thinking:

  Online Tools and Computational Approaches

  11.00-12.30, Monday, November 9, followed by lunch

  Education Building, Room 166

  The Challenge: Complex problem solving and critical thinking are required in today’s medical, design, and engineering professions. Knowledge in these domains must frequently be presented in the form of an argument, particularly alternative application scenarios in context-specific cases. However, much of our teaching and assessment is still focused on empirically definite facts, and procedures that produce single, apparently ‘correct’ answers.

  The Project: The general problem addressed by this project is how to teach and assess ‘complex epistemic performance’ such as critical thinking that weighs up alternatives, and problem solving that is context- and case-sensitive. Our solution uses the Scholar platform developed by U of I researchers to support multimodal knowledge representation and structured peer feedback, focusing on critical disciplinary practices and metacognitive strategies. We are also exploring computational possibilities, both around structured peer and instructor data and computational approaches that mine unstructured or semi-structured data emerging through all stages of the learning process.

  The Intervention: With the support of the Illinois Learning Science Design Initiative (ILSDI), these possibilities are now being explored in the area of critical clinical thinking. Experiments are underway in first year medical curricula on campus: the Vet Cases Scholar community is home to Clinical Correlations cases in the College of Veterinary Medicine and the Cardiovascular Physiology community houses case analyses on this subject in the College of Medicine.

  Join the project team for a presentation on this project, with a discussion of these educational challenges, as well as the emerging computational and learning-analytic approaches.

  Project Team:

  PI: Duncan C. Ferguson, V.M.D., Ph.D., Dept. of Comparative

  Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine

  CIs: ChengXiang Zhai, Ph.D., Dept. of Computer Sciences,

  College of Engineering

  William Cope, Ph.D., Dept. of Education Policy, Organization

  and Leadership, College of Education 

  Willem Els, Ph.D., Molecular and Integrative Physiology, College

  of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and College of Medicine

  Chase Geigle, graduate student, Dept. of Computer Sciences,

  College of Engineering

  RSVP if you plan to attend: billcope@illinois.edu

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  Five Ways to Present Content Online Synchronously and Asynchronously

  Jul 8, 2020 11:00 am121 views

  Some topics that will be discussed in this session include: best practices in arranging content for consumption, various options for online communication, and tools that can help enable ubiquitous learning.

• F.O.C.U.S Nominations Sought - $2,500 Student Scholarships Available

  Aug 2, 2021 10:30 am121 views

  F.O.C.U.S. is an intensive year-long program created to aid in eliminating the gap in post-graduation outcomes and starting salaries between underrepresented, first-generation students and their peers to positively impact their career trajectory, earnings potential, and economic security for years to come.

• New Online Class in SPED for Summer 2014

  May 12, 2014 2:30 pm118 views

  The Department of Special Education is offering a new online course on The Ethics and Professional Behavior in Education. Please consider signing up for this class

  SPED 488: Ethics & Prof. Behavior

  Online: June 2-June 27

  Credit: 3 undergraduate hours. 3 graduate hours.

  Designed to introduce students to ethical issues and challenges that teacher educators and other professionals, including Board Certified Behavior Analysts, may encounter in practice. The topics to be covered all revolve around ethical conduct in practice and research, as well as the decision-making foundations for resolving ethical issues. Students will obtain knowledge and skills through readings, discussion and various case scenarios, reflections, and discussion of the concepts of issues addressed in the reading and assignments.

  [Course Information:] 3 undergraduate hours. 3 graduate hours. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Undergraduate Seniors (with permission).

  Instructors: Dr. Cheryl Light Shriner and Dr. Hedda Meadan

  For more information:  217-333-0260 or slight@illinois.edu 

• 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. 

• Rebecca Hacker, SPED, Selected by Grad College as Marion Morse Wood Fellow

  Mar 9, 2020 4:00 pm116 views

  Congratulations to PhD student Rebecca Hacker on being selected as one of two Illinois students to receive a Marion Morse Wood Fellowship for the 2020-2021 academic year.

• Free Movie and Conversation: Keep On Keepin' On

  May 6, 2016 12:00 pm115 views

  Come see a film depicting a student-teacher relationship that will move and inspire you!

  Sunday, May 22 | 5:00 PM | The Art Theater, 126 W Church Street, Champaign | FREE

• Dr. Nicholas Burbules lectures on "The Educational Importance of Communicative Virtues"

  Feb 10, 2016 3:15 pm113 views

  Nicholas Burbules, a Gutgsell Professor in the Department of Education Policy, Organization & Leadership, presented a lecture titled “The Educational Importance of Communicative Virtues.”

• Congrats to Education students who qualified for Phi Kappa Phi

  Mar 7, 2016 12:30 pm113 views

  Congratulations to the 22 Education at Illinois students who qualified for membership in the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. The scholastic achievements of these students bring distinction to the College and its departments.

• EPS 515: Philosophy of Educational Research

  Sep 4, 2013 12:00 pm113 views

  Space remains in EPS 515, Philosophy of Educational Research [4 hours] (M. 4-6:50, 108 DKH)--Prof. Chris Higgins

  • Meets in conjunction with EPS 508, Uses & Abuses of Research in Education Policy--Prof. Chris Lubienski

  • Examines the rhetoric of the major research paradigms, the politics of research use in educational policy, and the philosophy of inquiry with the goal of fostering comprehensive and critical research literacy.

  Warning! Do not take this course unless you are one or more of the following:

  • a doctoral student who needs a general overview of educational research for your research specialization;

  • an educational researcher in training who wants to be conversant with research modes outside of your specialty;

  • an educational practitioner who needs to know how to read research and "evidence-based" directives critically;

  • a citizen who is angered by the idea that the democratic work of articulating who we will be through how we educate will be farmed out to technical experts or hijacked by special interest groups cloaking themselves in "research findings."

  The course begins with an extended case study. We examine what it is that makes education public, along the way reflecting on the affordances and limitations of different species of quantitative, qualitative, and humanistic educational research. We consider what counts as evidence in various research paradigms, what it means to speak of a "method" or "theoretical framework," and where one can find this special stuff known as "data." We also explore different forms of "proofiness," in which the trappings of a mode of research serve to hide the lack of a real question, an actual argument, or genuine significance. In the final third of the course, we take a closer look at the politics of research use and the philosophy of inquiry.

  If you have questions or would like a copy of the syllabus, email Chris Higgins at crh4@illinois.edu.

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

  Mar 29, 2023 2:30 pm112 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.

• Attend the 2021 Global Education Symposium!

  Oct 18, 2021 4:00 pm112 views

  The Global Education Symposium, October 21-24, is a four-day event with opportunities to engage with scholars from around the world, engage in professional development activities, participate in informal networking activities, and more!

• 1960s Discovery Course for First Year Students EPS 199-BAR crn #40564

  May 19, 2015 1:45 pm111 views

  FALL 2015 DISCOVERY COURSE ON THE 1960S  FOR FIRST YEAR STUDENTS!

  "BACK   TO    THE    1960s”

  Educational Policy Studies: EPS 199 section BAR (crn # 40564)

                            Sociology: SOC 199 section BMB (crn # 49855)

  Days, Time, Location: Tue & Thr, 8:30-9:50am, Room 323 Educ Bldg  Credit:3 Hours Limited Enrollment:19 students

  Professor: Dr. Bernice McNair Barnett (email: bmbarnet@illinois.edu.

  About this 1960s Discovery Course & the Professor

  This First Year (Freshman) Discovery course is a sociological examination of the exciting I 960s! The primary objective of the course is to provide students an opportunity to: ( 1 ) discuss the popular youth cultures of the 1960s; (2) analyze the diversity of social, educational, political, and cultural concerns, themes, events, issues, leaders, and changes; and (3) reflect on the legacies of the 1 960s youth generation. Against the soundtrack of rock and roll, folk, pop, soul, rock, and other genres of music by the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Temptations, Supremes, Beach Boys, Jimi Hendrix, Mamas and Papas, and other artists and festivals at Monterey and Woodstock, we explore concerns expressed not only by a diversity of political leaders (John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon) and social movement leaders (Mario Savio, Betty Friedan, Martin Luther King, Jr, Malcolm X, Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, Septima Clark,Yuri Kochiyama) but also by a diversity of youth cultures (Flower Children/Hippies, Yippies, Diggers, Merry Pranksters, Politicos), fashions, fads, dances, poetry, slang, literature, and social movement protests in/outside of schools and colleges/ universities (esp. students rights, Free Speech Movement, Vietnam/Antiwar protest, Women's/Feminist, African American, Chicano/a, Native American, Asian American, LGBT, disabled, immigrant, and alternative school movements) .

  Professor Barnett earned her Ph.D. in Sociology. She is an historical sociologist and Associate Professor in the Departments of Educational Policy, Organization, & Leadership (EPOL), Sociology, and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has presented research on the 1960s at international forums in the U. S., Canada, and Germany and has received various awards, including the Faculty Award for Excellence i n Teaching, Advising, and Research by the Council of Graduate Student in Education and Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked Excellent by Students at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

  For questions, contact Professor Barnett at bmbarnet@illinois.edu. Peace!

  Read more about the course.

• COV-Course: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Pandemic

  Aug 26, 2020 1:00 pm111 views

  COVID-19 has created an unprecedented public health crisis—one that experts around the world are working to understand and combat. Dozens of those world-class experts are right here at the U of I, ready to teach you what they know. Register now to take “COV-Course: A multidisciplinary approach to understanding the pandemic.” The online course is free and open to all.

• New Spotify Playlist From the College of Education

  Jun 29, 2021 2:30 pm110 views

  This summer, get in the groove of work time, free time, or any time! Have a funky, fun, and energized day with this Spotify playlist created especially for you by the College's Office of Marketing & Communications.

  Listen to A Sonic High Five From the College of Education on Spotify...

• College of Education Welcome Event for Faculty and Staff

  Aug 20, 2015 9:30 am109 views

  Dean Mary Kalantzis cordially invites College of Education faculty and staff members to an Aug. 28 welcome event in the north lobby of the Education Building.

• SCD Design Thinking Workshops for Instructors

  Aug 20, 2021 7:00 am109 views

  Calling all instructors: Siebel Center for Design is proud to offer three interactive workshops this semester designed specifically for you.

• C&I's Rochelle Gutierrez Keynote Speaker at NCTM 2020 Virtual Conference

  Nov 9, 2020 3:00 pm109 views

  Professor Rochelle Gutierrez will give a keynote address, "What Kind of Mathematics Do We Need Now?" at the largest annual math education conference. The combined events of COVID-19, Black Lives Matter, and climate change have opened the door for many teachers to question what is happening in the world and what is our place in it? This session supports teachers to reflect on what is considered “normal” in mathematics teaching and learning and what it will take to rehumanize mathematics. More than just rethink the ways we teach, I will engage us to reconsider mathematics itself and how it can be in the service of connecting us with each other and the natural world. 

• Black Lives in America: Moving Away from Police Violence, Mass Incarceration, and Capitalism

  Dec 1, 2020 3:30 pm108 views

  The Library is hosting an event on Sunday, December 6 as part of the READ (Racial Education, Activism, and Discussion) series. It is a follow up from the October event about police violence and mass incarceration – Part 2. The College's Rebecca Ginsburg is among the planned panelists.

• GSE Early Summer Symposium

  May 20, 2014 10:30 am107 views

  GSE Early Summer Symposium

  May 23, 2014 9am-5pm

  Room 22, Education Building

  Symposium Committee: Prof. Cameron McCarthy and Xiuying “Sophy” Cai

   

  9:00-9:45am: Welcoming and Opening Speech

  Thinking about the Cultural Studies of Education in a Time of Recession: Learning to Labor and the Work of Aesthetics in Modern Life

  Author: Dr. Cameron McCarthy: Global Studies in Education and Institute of Communication Research

   

  9:50-11:10am: Rearticulating Territory, Citizenship and Rights in the New Millennium

  Porous Categories: Immigration Documentation and the Performativity of Citizenship

  Author: Brenda Nyandiko Sanya, Global Studies in Education

  Problematizing Citizenship in Theory and Practice: Overlaps and Contradictions of Citizenship Strategies in Educational Reform in the Philippines

  Author: Elizer Jay de los Royal: Global Studies in Education

  “Social” Democratic Deficit?: Interrogating the Changes in Norwegian Education in the PISA Era

  Author: Paul Myers: Social and Cultural Studies in Education

  Rapping for a Change: The Poetics and Performance of Women’s Rights in Arab Hip Hop Culture

  Author: Angela Williams: Global Studies in Education

  Chair & Discussant: Mor Gueye: Curriculum and Instruction

   

  11:15-12:15pm: Imagining the Local and the Global: Towards Inclusive Global Community

  Towards a Digitally Inclusive Community Model: A Case Study of Parents and Children in a High Poverty Elementary School

  Author: Samaa Haniya: Global Studies in Education

  Riding the Bus in Orchard Downs: A Case of Grounded Globalization

  Author: Lisa Chason: Global Studies in Education

  The global perspective of an international curriculum framework

  Author: Leonardus Sudibyo: Curriculum and Instruction

  Chair & Discussant: Jaehee Park: Curriculum and Instruction

   

  12:15-13:15pm:  Lunch Discussion with Invited Speaker: Chaitut Roungchai (GSE 2014 PhD Graduate)

  Twists and Turns in the Process of Dissertating:  a Case in Working with Ethnography and Refugee Community

   

  1:25-2:00pm: (Re)Design of the Golden Triangle: Policy Interpretations of New Campuses in Singapore and Finland

  Author: Dr. Allison Witt: Global Studies in Education and Office of International Programs

   

  2:10-3:10pm: Rethinking Cosmopolitanism in the 21^st Century

  Unequal “Global Connection:” Forging Critical Cosmopolitan Relationships through Dialectics of Space and Time

  Author: Xiuying “Sophy” Cai: Global Studies in Education

  Trying a Method: Freire’s Work as Autobiographical Text

  Author: Daniel Johnson Mardones: Curriculum and Instruction

  Theories of Meaning and English Language Education

  Authors: Natalie Mullen & Lisa Chason: Global Studies in Education

  Chair & Discussant: Terry Vaughan III: Philosophy of Education

   

  3:20-4:20pm: Democratizing International Education in Globalizing Universities

  International Graduate Student Social Adaptations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Authors: Jason M. Bailey; Jasmine D. Collins, and Jelena Pokimica: Human Resource Development

  Universities in a Global Market: Exploring Entrepreneurialism and University-Industry Linkages

  Author: Georganne Sadomytschenko: Global Studies in Education

  Democratizing International Education:  Increasing African American Representation in U.S. Study Abroad Programs

  Author: Dinah Armstead: Global Studies in Education

  Chair & Discussant: Xiaokang “Violet” Tang: Global Studies in Education

   

  4:25-5:00pm 2014-15 Graduate College Funded Focal Point Opening Speech

  Diversity and Internationalization of Higher Education: Possibilities for Collision and Collaboration

              Author: Dr. Nicole Lamers, Office of Academic and Student Affairs, College of Liberal Arts                   and Sciences

• AERA 2020 Virtual Awards Celebration: October 3, 2020

  Sep 4, 2020 11:00 am107 views

  All 2020 AERA-wide awardees, including the 2020 Presidential Citation recipients—one of whom is James D. Anderson, Dean of the College of Education at Illinois—will be honored at a Virtual Awards Celebration on Saturday, October 3, 2020 from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. CDT.

• C&I's Stephanie Smith Receives 2021 Outstanding Early Childhood Teacher Educator Award

  Oct 7, 2021 3:30 pm107 views

  Stephanie Smith, assistant professor of Curriculum & Instruction, has been named the 2021 Outstanding Early Childhood Teacher Educator from Taylor and Francis and the NAECTE Foundation.

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  Military Families Learning Network Team Wins Diversity Award for their 2018 Virtual Conference

  Nov 11, 2019 12:30 pm107 views

  The National Extension Association for Family Consumer Sciences awarded the Mary W. Wells Diversity Award to the Military Families Learning Network team for their extraordinary collaborative effort reaching many military family service providers through their 2018 virtual conference, Cultural Competency: Awareness, Action, and Advocacy.

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  Ruedas-Gracia Selected for Campus' 2024 NIH Grant Writing Series Program

  Feb 13, 2024 2:00 pm106 views

  A dozen Illinois faculty members were selected for the program for their demonstrated history of success with NIH proposals; the biennial NIH Grant Writing Series is designed to prepare Illinois faculty to submit their first R01 or other individual investigator proposals to the National Institutes of Health.

• James D. Anderson AACTE Outstanding Dissertation Award

  Aug 2, 2022 3:15 pm106 views

  The American Associate of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) recently named its annual Outstanding Dissertation Award in honor of James D. Anderson, professor emeritus and past dean of the College of Education, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a leading scholar of American education.

• Rachel Roegman Wins Early Career Award from AERA

  Mar 15, 2019 4:00 pm105 views

  Congratulations to Education Policy, Organization & Leadership's Rachel Roegman, who will be recognized with a 2019 AERA-Division A Early Career Award at the organization's Annual Meeting in April.

• National Academy of Education Accepting Applications for Fellowships

  Sep 6, 2013 10:19 am105 views

  The National Academy of Education awards two professional development fellowships. The Dissertation Fellowship Program, which has an application deadline of October 4, seeks to encourage a new generation of scholars from a wide range of disciplines and professional fields to undertake research relevant to the improvement of education. The Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, with an application deadline of November 1, supports early-career scholars working in critical areas of educational scholarship. The NAE will host a webinar opportunity on September 16 for applicants to the Dissertation Fellowship Program and on September 18 for applicants to the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. This is an excellent opportunity for applicants to ask questions concerning the application process. If interested, register here for the dissertation webinar or register here for the postdoctoral webinar.

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  New Book Co-edited by EPOL Professor Linda Herrera | Global Middle East: Into the 21st Century

  Jan 31, 2021 10:00 am103 views

  Linda Herrera, EPOL professor in Global Studies in Education, has co-edited (with A. Bayat) the volume Global Middle East: Into the 21st Century, just published by University of California Press. 

• Community Building Team

  Sep 4, 2019 2:00 pm102 views

  The Community Building Team (also known as the faculty/staff social committee) of the College of Education is seeking members!  

  If you are interested in joining the CBT, please email Kat Kernick at kkernick@illinois.edu to learn more.  

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  Ruedas-Gracia Receives NIH Diversity Supplement Award

  Sep 5, 2023 11:45 am102 views

  She will be responsible for leading efforts to examine racial and ethnic disparities in biomedical research and design and implement methods to foster participation in research equitably and ethically.

• Spots Still Available for TEACH Academy, July 19-21

  Jun 28, 2023 1:30 pm101 views

  This three-day interactive experience, presented by the Campus-Community Compact to Accelerate Social Justice, is designed to strengthen instructional practices using a lens that focuses on educational justice, equity, and inclusion.  

• Senior 100 Honorary Program

  Feb 4, 2016 3:30 pm100 views

  The Illinois Student Alumni Ambassadors present: Senior 100 Honorary! Senior 100 Honorary is a program that strives to reconize the top 100 seniors graduating this spring as measured by academics as well as other achievement and invlvement in the Illinois campus community.  Learning and personal growth goes beyond the classroom here at Illinois and your acheivements and successes deserve to be recognized. Visit http://illinisaa.com/senior-100-app to apply or nominate a senior.

• RTI International seeking professional for USAID-funded project

  Mar 14, 2016 11:30 am100 views

  RTI International is seeking professionalsfor an anticipated $10 - $25 million USAID-funded 5 year project to improve early grade reading in Morocco. The USAID-funded project aims to improve early grade reading outcomes for children in primary grades. All positions are full-time with residency in Morocco.

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  Black Graduate Student Summer Support Circle

  Jun 1, 2020 5:15 pm100 views

  As Black graduate students, we may be shouldering multiple stressors such as general graduate student struggles, virus related injustices, and household/family responsibilities. During this pandemic, it’s not unusual to start to feel fatigue (if you’re not already exhausted), to notice emotions (e.g. fear, grief, uncertainty, etc.), and have periods where you’re overwhelmed. Within this circle, we will cultivate our cultural resources and the power of the community for support. We will facilitate discussions and dialogues about healing, change, and power.

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  Assistant Professor Giselle Martinez Negrette Honored by AAHHE

  Nov 12, 2020 2:15 pm100 views

  Martinez Negrette's dissertation, “Bilingual Ways with Words: An Ethnographic Study of Language and Social Constructions in a Kindergarten Dual Language Class,” has been selected as second place in the 2021 American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) Outstanding Dissertation Competition sponsored by Educational Testing Services (ETS). 

• Chancellor Michael Aiken to be Awarded at 2019 Convocation

  Apr 10, 2019 10:00 am99 views

  Michael T. Aiken, who served as the sixth chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1993-2001, will be awarded an honorary PhD this spring. Chancellor Aiken’s visionary leadership laid a foundation for transparent strategic planning, robust philanthropic support, experiential learning for students, and support for translational research as an engine of economic development.

• C&I Professor Gloriana Gonzalez and Alum Saad Shehab Awarded $1.375M NSF Grant

  Jul 5, 2023 1:00 pm98 views

  Congratulations to Curriculum & Instruction professor Gloriana Gonzalez, PI and C&I alumnus Saad Shehab, Co-PI, who have been awarded a new grant from the National Science Foundation for their project, Engaging Teachers in Integrating Human-Centered Design for Geometry Problem-based Instruction. The $1.375M award is effective August 1, 2023, and the work is in collaboration with the campus' Siebel Center for Design, where Shehab serves as associate director of assessment and research.

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  SPED Doctoral Student James Lee Wins Research Award from CEC

  Oct 6, 2020 1:45 pm98 views

  Congratulations to Special Education doctoral student James Lee, who is the recipient of the 2020 John Umbreit Doctoral Research Award (JUDRA) from the Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders (CCBD) division of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC).

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

  Feb 7, 2024 10:45 am97 views

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

  
  

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

  Feb 24, 2022 3:30 pm96 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.

• Illinois Distinguished Postdoctoral Research Associate Symposium

  Mar 23, 2016 8:45 am96 views

  Diversity Realized at Illinois through Visioning Excellence (DRIVE) is holding the inaugural Illinois Distinguished Postdoctoral Research Associate Symposium in Grainger Engineering Library on March 31.

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  Two from College of Education named to State Committee on Teacher Licensure

  Nov 28, 2023 1:15 pm96 views

• Listen to Jennifer Cromley Talk About Her Latest Research on Student Motivation

  Jun 7, 2021 2:15 pm94 views

  Professor Jennifer Cromley speaks to Illinois Public Media's Carolina Garibay about her latest findings from her study on pandemic-related changes’ effects on STEM students' scholarly motivation.

• Food Supply Chain Map beta launch

  Jun 15, 2020 2:00 pm94 views

  Professor Megan Konar in Civil and Environmental Engineering partnered with the Office for Math, Science, and Technology Education (MSTE) to visualize the flow of food between counties in the United States. 

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  EPOL's Jessica Li Named to Provost's Building Pathways for Emerging Leaders Cohort

  Sep 21, 2020 4:45 pm94 views

  Congratulations to Jessica Li, professor of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, who has been selected to the Provost's 2020-21 Building Pathways for Emerging Leaders at Illinois cohort.