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Wallace Foundation Selects UT Austin, State Partners to Develop Equity-Focused School Leaders
Oct. 12, 2021
AUSTIN, Texas — The Wallace Foundation selected The University of Texas at Austin, The University of Texas at San Antonio, and the Texas Education Agency as co-partners to locally support leadership development efforts and address equity issues in public education. The Wallace Foundation’s ongoing initiative seeks to build evidence-based principal…
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…
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…
