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Category: ETRA

Supporting students of color: Faculty share ideas to expand concept of equity

January 15, 2021 Mark McGowan CAHE, CI, enewsletter, ETRA, KNPE, LEPF, SEED

As the powerful messages from a panel of Black students concluded during the Jan. 7 all-college meeting, Dean Laurie Elish-Piper shifted the conversation to action. “I’ve asked each department to share an initiative that directly relates to supporting students of color, broadening

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Jobs, jobs, jobs! ETRA Ph.D. students, grads turn IT prep into prestigious gigs

December 8, 2020 Mark McGowan Alumni, enewsletter, ETRA

Max Anderson is on a unique journey. He was the first instructional designer hired by the University of Illinois College of Medicine. That was 2013. And when college administrators were ready a few years later to recruit and appoint a director of

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NIUSTEAM Professional Development: Join us for a new Virtual STEAM Professional Development Series

December 8, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA
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STEAMStudio: Put down the textbooks, pick up the fun!

December 8, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA
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NIUSTEAM Online Programs: Online doesn’t have to mean hands off!

December 8, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA
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Congratulations!

December 8, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA, External and Global Programs

Half of this year’s International Recognition Reception honors went to the College of Education. Ted Moen, program coordinator in the Office of External and Global Programs, received the award for Outstanding Staff Contribution to International Education. Moen is instrumental in providing infrastructure,

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Pi-Sui Hsu begins Senior Faculty Fellow work in promoting STEM fields to youth

October 6, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA

Pi-Sui Hsu wants to see more children enter the fields of science and engineering. Hsu, an associate professor in the Department of Educational Technology, Research and Assessment, has launched numerous initiatives over her career to advance that goal. These have included summer

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ETRA doctoral candidate offers faculty ways to ‘rethink’ online course delivery

September 8, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA

As another semester of remote learning begins, Hal Hinderliter is on a mission. Hinderliter, a teaching and research assistant in the Department of Educational Technology, Research and Assessment (ETRA), wants to help faculty in the NIU College of Education to reimagine the

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Robin Miller Young writing next chapter in retiring from Early Childhood faculty

August 12, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA, LEPF, SEED

Robin Miller Young always knew that she wanted a career making positive differences for children and families. How to meet and exceed that goal, however, has evolved continually since the beginning of her pursuit – and, unsurprisingly, another chapter is soon to

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Podcast features Laura Ruth Johnson

May 13, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA

Laura Ruth Johnson’s search for local knowledge from the direct source – the people who live those realities and the grassroots organizations they populate – has taken her from Chicago to Puerto Rico to Taiwan and beyond. Johnson’s community-based research serves to

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COE recognizes administrative professionals

April 19, 2020 Mark McGowan CAHE, CI, enewsletter, ETRA, KNPE, LEPF, SEED

Wednesday is Administrative Professionals Day. Our amazing administrative professionals in the College of Education are the can’t-live-without glue that hold our offices and departments together. And while we’re all away, unable to thank or five-high them in person, they continue to serve

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Grad students modify Chicago research to address host site’s COVID-19 concerns

April 19, 2020 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, ETRA, LEPF

During this strange era of COVID-19, the adage about “the best-laid plans” has proven itself more than a cliché. For Dean Laurie Elish-Piper and Laura Ruth Johnson, an associate professor in the Department of Educational Technology, Research and Assessment, their work that

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