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Carmela Valdez Wins Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Writing
Oct. 08, 2021
Carmela Valdez Carmela Valdez, a co-teacher and core member in the Heart of Texas Writing Project at the College of Education, has won the 2021 Donald Graves Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Writing from the National Council of Teachers of English. The competitive…

Provost’s Early Career Fellow Recognized as a Leader in her Field
Oct. 06, 2021
Genesis Arizmendi Postdoctoral Fellow Genesis Arizmendi has received the Distinguished Early Career Professional (ECP) Certificate awarded by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. The certificate was created to recognize and identify ECPs in the fields of audiology and speech-language pathology…

Stella Flores Discusses the Need to Invest in Higher Education Now
Sep. 30, 2021

The College of Education Remembers Jay D. Scribner
Sep. 21, 2021
Educational Leadership and Policy professor emeritus was a beloved mentor to many.

Dean Martinez on Record Undergraduate Hispanic Student Enrollment
Sep. 20, 2021

Mike Parent Weighs in on Tik Tok’s Roll Out of Mental Health Resources
Sep. 17, 2021

Texas Center for Equity Promotion Announces New Faculty Affiliates
Sep. 09, 2021
The Texas Center for Equity Promotion (TexCEP), an interdisciplinary research center founded in 2020 at the College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin, has announced 10 new faculty affiliates who share the center’s vision of eliminating disparities in education and health among underserved populations. “We…

UT Austin Center Receives Grant to Support the Success of Deaf People Beyond High School
Sep. 07, 2021
The award is a renewal of a previous OSEP grant that established NDC in 2017 and was one of the largest grants awarded by the Department of Education.

Kevin Cokley: Black Psychology’s Relationship With Critical Race Theory
Sep. 02, 2021
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Update on Our Fall Semester Plans
Aug. 18, 2021
As the fall semester approaches, welcome back to another school year on the Forty Acres. Clearly, we had all hoped that the launch of the year would have been very close to normal, but, as with many of our late summer and fall plans, things have become more complicated and…