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News & EVENTS

SUMMERTIME, AND THE READING IS EASY

June 15, 2009 - School is out, summer is on, and many young students will spend it transported through story to other worlds. Yet for many others, summer is merely a pause in their ongoing struggles with literacy.

Thanks to a recent grant extension from the federal government, the University of Utah Reading Clinic (UURC) in the College of Education can continue to make reading easier for struggling students over the summer. Started by the 1999 Utah Legislature, the UURC was created to provide direct services to Utah educators and parents, including serving as a resource for parents by offering assessment and intervention to struggling readers and providing professional development to educators.     Read more...
U.S. News Ranks College of Education Programs
Among the Nation’s Top 25

Three UofU College of Education graduate programs are among the nation's elite in the 2010 U.S. News and World Report's ranking of more than 1,400 universities and colleges. Two programs, Special Education and Educational Leadership and Policy, have been consistently ranked in the top 25 for the past decade by U.S. News. This year Special Education is ranked 18th and Educational Leadership is ranked 21st.

New to this year's top 25 is the University's Secondary Teacher Education Program which includes the licensure program in the College of Education and majors from several colleges on campus (including Health, Humanities, Fine Arts, Science, Mines and Earth Sciences, and Social and Behavioral Science).

Hugo RossiHugo Rossi Appointed Acting Director of the New Center for Math & Science Education

Hugo Rossi, Professor Emeritus at the University of Utah, has been named Acting Director of the proposed Center for Math and Science Education.

He received his PhD from MIT and is an internationally recognized researcher in math and science.  Professor Rossi served as Dean of the U's College of Science from 1987 to 1993. While Dean, he started the highly successful and still running College of Science ACCESS program, introducing young women to science. During his career, Professor Rossi has held Sloan and Guggenheim fellowships and spent a year as visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study; served as Chair of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics, AMS/MAA; the Deputy Director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at Berkeley; and co-founder of Berkeley and San Francisco Math Circles and the Bay Area Mathematics Olympiad. 

The Center, a partnership of the College of Education and the College of Science, will focus on research in the teaching of math and science education in public and higher education, including a deeper understanding of the role of racial, ethnic, and linguistic diversity in learning. Under Dr. Rossi's leadership, the Center will also develop collaborative programs across the Colleges of Science and Education for new teacher candidates, practicing teachers, school specialists, and educational leaders; recruit new math and science students to the U; and develop interdisciplinary graduate degree programs.  Dr. Rossi's appointment is effective immediately.

Arts & Education Complex

Karen - stamp photo

During the 92nd annual Association for the Study of the African American Life and History Conference in Birmingham, Alabama, in October 2008, the United States Postal Service unveiled a new stamp in the Black Heritage Series. The stamp featured the late 19th and early 20th century educator, activist, feminist, and author---Anna Julia Cooper. Dr. Karen A. Johnson (Department of Education,Culture & Society), a leading scholar on Cooper, gave a brief address on the life and works of Anna Julia Cooper, at the unveiling of the stamp. The stamp will be available in June 2009.

Student Spotlight

Funston Whiteman

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY RECEIVES $1.4 MILLION IN STUDENT SUPPORT GRANTS

The Department of Educational Psychology in the College of Education has been awarded two U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Personnel Preparation grants. The two new grants will support the preparation of masters level graduate students and complement a U.S. Department of Education Leadership Training Grant for school psychology doctoral students that was awarded in August. One grant, under the direction of Dr. William Jenson, will support the preparation of future school psychologists to implement empirically-based interventions with K-12 students who have externalizing disorders (i.e., ADHD, Conduct Disorders/Oppositional Defiant Disorders, Disruptive Disorders). The second grant, under the direction of Dr. Elaine Clark, will prepare school psychology practitioners to work with students in secondary schools who have autism. These grants provide an unprecedented opportunity to attract a diverse group of students into the U's School Psychology program. The two grants are funded at just over 1.4 million dollars and can support up to 16 students each year with annual stipends ranging from $14,500 to $15,000.

For more information on these projects, contact the Department of Educational Psychology at 801 581-7148 or visit our Grant Training Opportunity web page

The student study lounge, Club Ed, is located in Room 306, Milton Bennion Hall (MBH). Club Ed will be available to all education students Monday through Saturday from 6:00am to 10:00pm, closed on Sundays and when the University is closed.

Please contact the Dean's Office with any questions or concerns you may have.


Highlights of Past COE Events

Convocation 2009
Click here to see the video shown at Convocation.

Graduate Student Research Fair 2009 - view a Power Point slide show of our April 22, 2009 fair.

"Utah's American Indians, Their Governments, and Education,"
a Presentation by Forrest Cuch, Executive Director, Office of Indian Affairs, Utah State Office of Education.
Click here to view available presenter slides[PDF]

Utah Education Policy Forum
Co-Sponsored by the Utah Education Policy Center and the Utah Council of Education Deans
Click here to view available presenter slides