Education Policy, Organization and Leadership News

In its usual tradition, the College of Education had exceptional representation at the American Educational Research Association's 2013 Annual Meeting, held April 27 through May 1 in San Francisco. More than 130 faculty and students represented our College with superior papers and presentations. Read more...

Stacy Dymond, associate professor of Special Education, and Cris Mayo, professor of Educational Policy, Organization, and Leadership, have both received 2013 campus teaching awards. They were recognized at the Celebration of Teaching Excellence with other teaching award winners from across campus on April 23. Read more...

Adrienne Dixson, associate professor of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, and interim director of the Center for Education in Small Urban Communities, has co-edited a book titled “Handbook of Critical Race Theory and Education,” published this spring. Read more...

APRIL 18, 2013, UI NEWS BUREAU, CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Sharita Forrest — The presence of gangs in the vicinity of schools creates a pervasive climate of fear and victimization among students, teachers and administrators that escalates the level of aggression in bullying incidents and paralyzes prevention efforts, suggests a new study in the journal Psychology of Violence. Read more...

For the past seven months, a group of international graduate students from the College of Education has coordinated a program titled "Understanding Educational Diversity Around the World" to showcase education systems in various countries. Read more...

Isa Adney (Ed.M.,'12, HRE) speaker, consultant, and author of Community College Success, recently made GOOD Magazine's 100 People Pushing the World Forward list. Read more...

The College of Education is pleased to announce the faculty, staff, and students who are recipients of the College's 2013 Faculty and Staff Awards. Recipients will be recognized at the spring faculty meeting, which will be held at 2:00 p.m. on May 2 in room 22 in the Education Building. Read more...

The Education Justice Project (EJP) offers education programs to incarcerated students at the Danville Correctional Center. The EJP is directed by Rebecca Ginsburg, associate professor in the Department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership and in Landscape Architecture. The project involves about 60 U of I grad students and faculty members in various roles, including instructors, tutors, and program evaluators. Illinois Alumni magazine featured an article about EJP recently, written by freelance writer Dave Evensen. Read more...

JANUARY 22, 2013, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, AAPD.COM, WASHINGTON, DC — The American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) is pleased to announce that Anjali Forber-Pratt (Ph.D. '12 HRE) is one of two winners of the prestigious 2013 Paul G. Hearne Leadership Award. Read more...

Linda Herrera, professor the Department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, recently led a small delegation from the University of Illinois to Egypt to meet with Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei and Egyptian youth. Read more...

DECEMBER 18, 2012, THESOUTHERN.COM, CARBONDALE, ILL., Stephen Rickerl — BENTON — Surrounded by family, colleagues and friends he’d known for years but never met, Jim King (Ed.M. '12 HRE) held back tears as he studied the diploma he waited four decades to earn. Read more...

Anne Haas Dyson, professor in Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, has received the Early Literacy Educator of the Year Award from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). NCTE seeks to recognize distinguished contributions to the language and literacy education of young children. Read more...

William Trent, professor of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, was recently interviewed for an article by SentinelSource.com about the safety of women on campuses in Massachusetts, specifically commenting on a Voices of Diversity study. Read more...

OCTOBER 9, 2012, UI NEWS BUREAU, CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Sharita Forrest — As Greece struggles to rebuild its shattered economy, humanitarian agencies worry about the impact that the nation’s stringent reductions in wages and social services may have on vulnerable populations such as the Roma (also known as Romani, gypsies and travelers), many of whom live in extreme poverty on society’s fringes. Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis, education professors at the University of Illinois, are members of a project team working to improve access to education and promote social inclusion for Roma children and families in Greece. Funded by the European Commission, the European Union’s executive and policymaking body, the Education and Lifelong Learning Project is one component of the commission’s far-reaching strategy for promoting the welfare of Roma children, youth and adults. Read more...

Linda Herrera's article, "Youth and Citizenship in the Digital Age:A View from Egypt," is featured in the fall issue of The Harvard Educational Review. Herrera is an associate professor in the Department of EducationPolicy, Organization and Leadership. Read more...

Associate Professor Christopher Lubienski has been appointed director of The Forum on the Future of Public Education. He is taking over the role previously held by Professor Debra Bragg, who will remain actively involved in the Forum. Read more...

Jennifer Delaney, assistant professor of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, has been selected as one of 22 affiliates for the Wisconsin Center of the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE) for 2012-14. Following a nomination process, the center selected its new cohort of affiliates — comprised of scholars, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers — based on their interest in and ability to help create and share ideas that address Wisconsin’s postsecondary education challenges. Read more...

AUGUST 28, 2012, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS NEWS BUREAU, Dusty Rhodes — An art exhibition opening Aug. 30 (Thursday) in the Murphy Gallery at the University YMCA will feature drawings and paintings created by inmates of the Danville Correctional Center, a medium- to high-security prison for men. The exhibition was coordinated by five prisoners enrolled in the University of Illinois Education Justice Project – part of the College of Education – which provides upper-level college courses, workshops and seminars to inmates who have already earned 60 or more hours of college credit.

AUGUST 14, 2012, IMAGININGAMERICA.ORG — Syracuse University (SU) and Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA) announce the appointments of Timothy K. Eatman and Scott J. Peters as IA co-directors, effective August 1. Eatman earned his Ph.D. in Educational Policy Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2001.