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Category: Graduate Programs

Higher ed leader John M. Dunn named college’s Fall 2019 Educator in Residence

September 24, 2019 Mark McGowan Alumni, enewsletter, Graduate Programs, KNPE, KNPE alumni eNewsletter

A university president. A provost. A dean. A department chair. A vice chancellor – and two terms as an interim chancellor. An internationally respected researcher. John M. Dunn, recently retired from a decade of successful leadership of Western Michigan University and now

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Graham, Gabel halls remain busy places as learning flourishes throughout summer

August 27, 2019 Mark McGowan CAHE, CI, enewsletter, External and Global Programs, Graduate Programs

Summer is never slow in buildings that house the NIU College of Education. June saw more than 125 educators, mostly from DeKalb Community Unit School District 428 and Elgin’s U-46, absorbing the Social Justice Summer Camp’s immersive and intensive challenge to their

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Literacy Education grad students tutor, learn inside Jerry L. Johns Literacy Clinic

August 5, 2019 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, Graduate Programs

Danelle Davis spends most of her weekdays from August through May teaching in front of a classroom of nearly 30 first-graders. Summer 2019, however, has afforded the DeKalb School District 428 teacher the opportunity to work individually with a child who needs

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Summer schools tap CI doctoral students to boost learning of international students

July 3, 2019 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, Graduate Programs

For each of the previous 15 summers, NIU College of Education doctoral student Laura Crisp has spent six weeks teaching teens from China and South Korea. The students come to the United States for multiple-year stays, most arriving in time for eighth-grade,

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Above and beyond: Ten students earn right to wear Educate and Engage stoles

November 28, 2018 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, Graduate Programs, KNPE, SEED

Ten graduates of the NIU College of Education sported something new when they crossed the stage during the Dec. 15 and 16 commencement ceremonies. Blue stoles emblazoned with the words “Educate” and “Engage” boldly conveyed that the students took full advantage of

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Ed.D. student in Curriculum Leadership blazes own trail toward rewarding career

September 18, 2018 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, Graduate Programs

When Stacy M. Seaworth graduated from Rochelle Township High School in 1989, she expected to follow in the footsteps of those amazing educators who had meant so much to her. Five years later, she earned her bachelor’s degree in English from Illinois

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Engage Global debuts in Sri Lanka

August 13, 2018 Mark McGowan enewsletter, Graduate Programs, KNPE, KNPE alumni eNewsletter

Days after the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education’s Sri Lankan visitors left the NIU campus in late April, their hosts already were planning to book flights to Asia for August. That trip began Aug. 12 – and included four students who

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Future elementary teachers find good ideas within interventions

May 15, 2018 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, ETRA, Graduate Programs, KNPE, KNPE alumni eNewsletter, SEED

Courtney Rieb could not help but notice the boy. “He was frequently off-task,” says Rieb, a junior Elementary Education major from Antioch. “He was trying to talk to his friends, or taking laps around the classroom. I identified him as needing some

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And the award goes to …

May 15, 2018 Mark McGowan CAHE, enewsletter, Graduate Programs, KNPE, KNPE alumni eNewsletter, SEED

Congratulations to these members of the College of Education family! Annie Malecki, a Physical Education major, was recognized as a SHAPE America Major of the Year with about 80 other students from Physical Education Teacher Education programs across the country. She plans

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Research road show: Cohen, Strid collaborate with students

December 12, 2017 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, Graduate Programs, SEED

Six NIU students affiliated with the College of Education were among the presenters at the 41st Annual Statewide Conference for Teachers Serving Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students. Recently graduated master’s student Stephanie Eller and undergraduates Lorena Flores, Autumn Gathings, Christina Poe, Raven

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CAHE students, faculty attend Student Affairs 101 Conference

December 12, 2017 Mark McGowan CAHE, enewsletter, Graduate Programs

Ten graduate students in the Department of Counseling, Adult and Higher Education (CAHE) traveled recently to attend the Student Affairs 101 Conference in Normal. The one-day conference at Illinois State University, complete with 16 workshop sessions, enabled faculty and graduate students to

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Replace judgment with curiosity: Educate Global travelers return to United States with eyes open to power of classroom diversity

November 22, 2017 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, External and Global Programs, Graduate Programs, SEED

After 14 hours in the air, there was obviously no need to tell Marcus Lewis that he wasn’t in DeKalb anymore. Yet his first steps off the plane into a nearly empty airport in China, with none of the crowded hustle and

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