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David Fenell, Ph. D. - Interim Dean
Kolby Stallings - COE Student Senator
COE Faculty & Staff Recipients of Campus Awards
The College of Education and the Department of Curriculum & Instruction are pleased to announce six awards received by faculty & students from the College as well as by faculty from the University.
These COE awards are: Tim Callahan, Outstanding Instructor; Leslie Grant, Outstanding Teacher; Catherine Kelly, Outstanding Service; Brooke Burawski, Outstanding TELP Student; and Stephen Arvidson, Outstanding C&I Graduate Student (science education).
Congratulations to Linda Button, who received the award for Outstanding UCCS Instructor of the Year.
>> View photos of all the recipients on the C&I homepage
7/15/10
COE Appoints New Interim Dean
The COE is pleased to announce that the Counseling & Human Services Chair David Fenell, Ph.D., has been appointed as the interim Dean of the College.
We wish Dr. La Vonne Neal the best and thank her for all her contributions to the COE during her tenure as Dean for the last five years. She was appointed as the new Dean of the College of Education at Northern Illinois University.
Also, Associate Dean Dr. Lindy Crawford is leaving the COE later this summer for Texas Christian University. We thank her for the outstanding job she has done and wish her the best as well.
6/1/10
Save the Date: NAME's 20th Annual Conference
Save the date for the National Association for Multicultural Education's 20th Annual Conference, which will be held November 4 - 6. 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
This year's conference theme is "Empowering Children and Youth: Equality, Multiculturally Responsive Teaching, & Achievement Gaps."
To learn more visit the Conference's tab on the NAME website.
>> NAME main page
http://nameorg.org
5/13/10
OGE Forms New Partnership with Milo Kindergarten
The COE's Office of Global Education recently entered into a partnership with the prestigious Milo Kindergarten program for primary students in Guangzhou, China.
The OGE is currently looking to hire English teachers for the coming academic year.
>> Go to Milo page for more details
5/11/10
COE to Debut Youth University in Summer
The COE, in conjunction with The Classical Academy at Indigo Ranch, will begin a new program dedicated to all interested primary-level and intermerdiate-level students called Youth University.
The program will be a one-week camp that runs all day that will feature a large variety of classes to choose from, everything from "Inside Newton's Noggin" to "Wild about Water" to "Solve the Rubik's Cube." The various courses will all be taught by assorted teachers from District 49, District 20, and others.
The camp will run from June 21 - 25 this year.
>> Go to Youth University main page
4/17/10
COE Faculty Member Receives Large AERA Grant
Dr. John Weathers of the Leadership, Research and Foundations Department of the UCCS College of Education received a $35,000 research grant award February 2010 from the American Educational Research Association.
The project is entitled “A Propensity Score Matching Analysis of the Effects of Inclusive Special Education Services.” With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the AERA Grants Program announces its Research Grants competition. The program seeks to stimulate research on U.S. education issues using data from the large-scale, national and international data sets supported by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), NSF, and other federal agencies, and to increase the number of education researchers using these data sets.
The program supports research projects that are quantitative in nature, include the analysis of existing data from NCES, NSF or other federal agencies, and have U.S. education policy relevance.
4/5/10
Special Education Assists in UCCS Break Time for Parents
The UCCS Family Development Center on February 27 hosted a event and dinner for special needs parents called Break Time.
Break Time is a program by The Resource Exchange that offers a night out to parents of children with developmental disabilities. The program had been suspended for more than a year because of lack of funds, but with help from the Pikes Peak United Way, it's back.
Twenty-five children showed up for Saturday’s Break Time, 12 with disabilities and 13 siblings, ranging in age from 20 months to 18 years.
>> Watch the news clip on KKTV 11 News's site
http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/85751862.html
3/1/10
2010 SuperSaturday to Provide Exciting Educational Weekend for Grades 1 - 6
SuperSaturday at UCCS is a program of classes for gifted students in the Pikes Peak region. The program is run under the auspices of the COE and classes meet at UCCS.
Class sizes range from 12 - 16 students. The goal of SuperSaturday is to challenge the students' intellectual and creative abilities.
Courses are offered on Saturdays from April 3 - May 8, 2010.
>> Go to SuperSaturday main page
2/28/10
Diversity Action Plan
The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs is committed to diversity and equality in education and employment.
COE Motto: "Creativity, Opportunity, Excellence"