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Student Ratings Open April 25
Student ratings opened April 25 and professors want your feedback on class, to improve things based on your answering the student ratings process!
SOE Faculty Appointed to Leadership Positions
School of Education professors Marcelle Haddix and Linwood Vereen now hold key positions on prestigious boards. Haddix, dean’s associate professor and chair of the Reading and Language Arts Center (RLA), has been named to serve as vice president-elect on the…
CSTEP Students Participate in Annual Conference
Eight scholars in the Collegiate Science & Technology Entry Program (CSTEP) presented their research at CSTEP’s 24th Annual Statewide Student Conference. The conference theme this year was “Journeys Beyond Excellence,” and was aimed at embodying the nearly 30 years of…
National Book Award-Winning Author Jacqueline Woodson to Speak April 5
Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award-winning author of “Brown Girl Dreaming,” will speak on Tuesday, April 5, at 5:30 p.m. in Gifford Auditorium. Her talk, titled “Brown Girl Dreaming,” after her award winning memoir, is free and open to the public. Free…
Hip-Hop Dance Class Performance Featured InclusiveU Students
The Lawrence B. Taishoff Center for Inclusive Higher Education hosted a hip-hop dance performance on March 2 in Huntington Hall’s Sharon H. Jacquet Education Commons, featuring students in the “Introduction to Hip-Hop” class, including two InclusiveU students. The performance, titled…
Author-Scholar to Explore Wisdom of Private Sector Models in Higher Education
Christopher Newfield, professor of literature and American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will present a talk titled “The Great Mistake: How Private-Sector Models Damage Universities, and How They Can Recover” on Thursday, March 31, at 5 p.m….
Neuroscience Expert Shares Love for Dance with People with Parkinson’s Disease
Tumay Tunur feels dance helps people with Parkinson’s disease escape from their world of problems, medication and illness.
School of Education Doctoral Students Present at United Nations in Vienna
Two School of Education special education doctoral students, Brent Elder and Michelle Damiani, presented at the 2016 Zero Project Conference, convened by the Essl Foundation, the World Future Council and the European Foundation Centre at the United Nations Office in…
School of Education Faculty Find Inspiration in 30-Day Writing Challenge
Faculty members in the School of Education were feeling a double pull: they needed time to write, and they wanted to unite toward a goal and get to know each other better. “When we sponsored an all-day writing retreat for…
Landscape of Urban Education Series Presents Lecture in Memory of Beloved SOE Professor
The School of Education will welcome Michelle Fine, distinguished professor at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center to give a public lecture on Thursday, Feb. 18, at 4 p.m. in Watson Hall Theater. Her presentation, titled “Prec(ar)ious…