College of Education faculty, staff, and students were honored with many awards and honors during 2014-2015

2014-2015 Honorees 

Professional Awards and Recognition for Faculty Members

• Debra Bragg - fellow of the American Educational Research Association
• Jennifer Delaney - fellow of the Illinois Board of Higher Education and Charles F. Elton Best Paper from the Association for Institutional Research  
• Stacy Dymond - Excellence in Teaching Award from Illinois Teacher Education Division
• Gloriana Gonzalez - North American Systemic Functional Linguistics Association Emerging Scholar Award
• Anne Haas Dyson - Outstanding Educator in the English Language Arts Award from the National Council of Teachers of English
• Rebecca Ginsburg - Leadership in Education Award from the Young Women’s Christian Association
• David Huang - AECT Division of Distance Learning Article and Crystal Award Article recipient; Outstanding Reviewer Award for the journal Education Technology Research and Development; and second-place award recipient of the Distance Learning Journal Award in the Quantitative-Focused Category, sponsored by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology
• Helen Neville - Fulbright Scholarship to work in Tanzania
• Michelle Perry - Outstanding Review for 2014 for the AERJ – Teaching, Learning, and Human Development
• Patriann Smith - Language and Social Processes (LSP) SIG Emerging Scholar Award at AERA

University of Illinois Campus Awards to Faculty Members

• Nicholas Burbules - Outstanding Faculty Leadership Award
• Violet Harris - Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring
• Karla Moller - Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award
• Adam Poetzel - Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
• Anjale Welton - Campus Award for Excellence in Online and Distance Teaching
• Yoon Pak - Outstanding Asian American Faculty/Staff Award at the Asian American Leadership Awards ceremony

College of Education Awards to Faculty Members

• Ruth Nicole Brown - Outstanding Faculty Award for Service
• Kristen Bub - Hardie Faculty Fellow
• Meghan Burke - Hardie Faculty Fellow
• Michaelene Ostrosky - Distinguished College Senior Scholar
• Michelle Perry - Distinguished Teaching Career Award
• Gloriana Gonzalez - Distinguished College Senior Scholar
• Joe Robinson-Cimpian - Distinguished College Senior Scholar
• Hedda Meadan-Kaplansky - Spitze-Mather award
• Stephanie Smith - Hardie Faculty Fellow

College of Education Awards to Staff Members

• Tammy Collins - Distinguished Staff Award
• Jena Pfoff - Academic Professional Excellence Award

Students in the College of Education

• Jeanne Brunner - Outstanding Teaching Award for Teaching Assistants
• Manuel Colon - Franklin H. Williams Award from the Peace Corps
• Juan Gerardo - Outstanding Teaching Award for Teaching Assistants
• Juan Gerardo - Student Presentation Award from the Society for Advancement of Hispanics/Chicanos and Native Americans in Science
• Lori Erbrederis Meyer - David Sexton Award – Early Childhood Education
• Ifeyinwa U. Onyenekwu - 2015 CASE Outstanding Graduate Student Research Proposal
• Ifeyinwa U. Onyenekwu - Black Women Rock! Award
• Brenda Sanya - Outstanding Teaching Award for Teaching Assistants
• Esther Song - Illinois Promising New Teacher of Math
• Sun Joo Yoo - second-place award recipient of the Distance Learning Journal Award in the Quantitative-Focused Category, sponsored by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology

Academic Service of College Staff to the University of Illinois

10 Years

• Laurie Grams Andrews
• Catherine L. Kirby
• Christopher Lubienski
• Sarah Theule Lubienski
• Jena Marie Pfoff
• Kathleen M. Ryan
• Jaya Morgan Shoffner

20 Years

• Pradeep A. Dhillon

30 Years

• Lizanne Destefano
• Chris Roegge

40 Years

• James D. Anderson

We are delighted to announce the following promotions in rank for four faculty members for 2015:

• Jennifer Delaney, Department of Education Policy, Organization & Leadership, to associate professor with indefinite tenure
• Gloriana Gonzalez Rivera, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, to associate professor with indefinite tenure
• Mary-alayne Hughes, Department of Special Education, to clinical professor
• Joe Robinson-Cimpian, Department of Educational Psychology, to associate professor with indefinite tenure
• Linda Herrera, Department of Education Policy, Organization & Leadership, was promoted to professor

We say farewell this summer to a few colleagues who will be retiring: 

• Professor Debra Bragg, Department of Education Policy, Organization & Leadership 
• Professor Violet Harris, Department of Curriculum & Instruction
• Professor Richard Herman, Department of Education Policy, Organization & Leadership
• Professor Thomas A. Schwandt, Department of Educational Psychology