Join Dean Mouza and the College of Education for a cookout and meet our 2023 Education Alumni Award recipients! 

Dr. Denice Hood has been appointed (Interim) Director of the Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment. 

Dr. Hood is a Teaching Professor in the Department of Education Policy, Organization & Leadership. She has over 25 years of experience conducting evaluations of educational programs. 

Prior to coming to the University of Illinois, Dr. Hood was a Sr. Management Research Analyst in the Office of University Evaluation at Arizona State University. Dr. Hood teaches courses on program evaluation, including the evaluation of higher education programs.  

Under Denice’s leadership, CREA will continue to expand efforts on culturally responsive evaluation to advance equitable policies for marginalized groups.

Congratulations to Gloriana Gonzalez Rivera, professor, Curriculum & Instruction, and Mike Tissenbaum, associate professor, Educational Psychology, on being named to the inaugural Affiliates at the Siebel Center for Design.

Gonzalez Rivera is the Principal Investigator for Engaging teachers in integrating human-centered design for geometry problem-based instruction. In the Shop at SCD, students will use design thinking to solve a problem relevant to their community. Tissenbaum explores how digital games, simulations, and mobile tech can revolutionize learning spaces and promote inclusive computing and engineering curricula for underrepresented youth.

They join Mary Hermann, teaching associate professor, EPOL, in the SCD Affiliate Program.

The program allows affiliates to collaborate with SCD teams and the Director to shape projects and contributions in areas such as teaching HCD, applying it in STEM, Humanities and Social Sciences, K-12 education, communities, and the corporate world.

Funding was granted to Schutz, co-PI, for the project entitled "EMPOWERing Transition-Aged Youth with Visual Impairments: Equipping More Professionals for Work and Education in Rural Communities"

Strong increases in enrollment at the campus and college level, tenth-day numbers reveal.

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.

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.

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.

The conference on September 8 and 9 is dedicated to promoting interdisciplinary inquiry at the intersections of Indigenous language education, technology, policy, and more.

Faculty members Jennifer Cromley, co-PI, and Cherie Avent, evaluator, are members of the research team. The grant was awarded to a project called Developing Equity-Minded Engineering Practitioners (DEEP).

College of Education faculty Stina Krist, Gloriana Gonzalez Rivera, and Michelle Perry have been named National Science Foundation Discovery Research PreK-12 Awardees.

The College is pleased to announce that yet another group of Education at Illinois researchers have been awarded National Science Foundation funding for research.

The Office of Community College Research and Leadership in the College of Education recently added two new affiliate members to its team and has retained the affiliate services of a former staff member.

Congratulations to Curriculum & Instruction assistant professor Stina Krist, PI, and teaching professor Barbara Hug, co-PI, who are leading a team of researchers developing A Professional Development Model for High School Teachers to Adapt Curricula Toward Students' Knowledges and Resources thanks to a four-year, nearly $1M grant from the National Science Foundation.

The National Science Foundation has awarded EPOL assistant professor Paul Bruno, PI, nearly $500K for a three-year project examining Collaborative Research: Impacts of State Policy on Computer Science Participation and Teacher Preparation. Associate professor Colleen Lewis of the Grainger College of Engineering's Department of Computer Science joins Bruno as Co-PI on the project, along with Tuan Nguyen of Kansas State University.

OCCRL Director Lorenzo Baber will be one of the session speakers at this free virtual event, which will offer a collaborative environment for community college counselors who want to gain valuable insights, resources, and best practices to help aspiring medical students achieve their academic and career goals.

The project, first launched in 2018, helps users find local businesses that meet their accessibility needs, outlining the physical, sensory, cognitive, and accommodation-ready characteristics of local businesses.

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.

Laura Valderrama will earn $10,000 to offset the cost of her dissertation research. Her research interests focus on Latino children's biliteracy practices and future teachers' training on language diversity issues.