Graduate students engaged in innovation with the UNC Greensboro School of Education will soon have a new fellowship opportunity available to them thanks to the generosity of Paula and Rick Short who have established an endowment. Recipients of the award will work closely with the School of Education’s Impact Through Innovation (ITI) program which will lend support to the development and implementation of their ideas.
We would like to thank Ms. Lynn Bresko ’82 and Mr. Tom Corrigan for their generous outright and planned gift to establish the Mary Corley Duffy Scholarship in Education, with the intention to provide full tuition for an undergraduate or graduate student pursuing a degree in the UNC Greensboro School of Education. … Continued
Meet Jen Fry: a native of Arizona, Division II athlete and veteran college volleyball coach with more than 15 years of experience. She holds two master’s degrees, one from Duke University and one from UNC Greensboro, and now is working toward her doctoral degree at Michigan State University. Suffice it … Continued
Congratulations to Dr. Edna Tan, professor in the Department of Teacher Education and Higher Education (TEHE), on being named the second recipient of the Jennifer Smith Hooks ’76 and Jacob T. Hooks Distinguished Professorship in STEM Education. The professorship, announced in the fall of 2016, is a pivotal component of … Continued
As we enter into a new year, one where the School of Education has a clear mission to work to end educational inequity, we have updated the name of the program we established to honor our champions – donors making annual gifts of $1,000 and more to the SOE. The … Continued
Wishing to recognize the significant impact that so many educators have made in the lives of students, the UNC Greensboro School of Education (SOE) is thrilled to announce its 2020 Class of Inspirational Educators. The SOE initiated the Inspirational Educators program in 2019 with an inaugural class of 48 recipients, … Continued
We would like to thank Mrs. Sarah Cole Jordan ’56 and Mr. Robert B. Jordan IV for their $50,000 gift to the Sarah Cole Jordan Class of 1956 UNCG Teacher Education Fellows Endowment in the School of Education. The School of Education is honored to receive the continued support of … Continued
Earlier this fall, Dean Randy Penfield and Associate Dean Jewell Cooper hosted a series of three SOE Town Halls during September, with hopes of hosting more in the future. These virtual conversations were designed to help UNC Greensboro School of Education (SOE) alumni and interested “champions” of education have a … Continued
Dear SOE Community, Over the past six weeks, my thoughts and hopes have turned often to the members of our School of Education (SOE) family. I know the pandemic has touched us all, either through personal loss or by disrupting the connections and routines we treasure. We have heard this … Continued
Dear SOE Community, On March 23rd, the School of Education (SOE) — along with the rest of UNC Greensboro — had to make a huge shift right in the middle of our Spring 2020 semester. We pivoted to move all of our SOE academic programming to a remote/online format, and … Continued