James Cohen remembers well the closing moments of the first Social Justice Summer Camp for Educators in 2017. The plan for the future, as announced by Cohen and his fellow camp counselors from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, was to host
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Congratulations to these members of the NIU College of Education family! Injung Lee, a faculty member in the Counseling program, received a 2024 Professional Research Grant from Association for Counselor Education and Supervision. Lee’s project aims to understand international doctoral students’ experiences
Read moreNIU celebrates spring commencement
Congratulations to our newest NIU College of Education alumni! Two of our amazing graduates were featured a videos shown during the ceremonies. Meet Jennifer Lopez, who earned her B.S.Ed. in Middle Level Teaching and Learning … … and Cyndi Grobmeier, who completed
Read moreCAHE’s Kassandra Kavanaugh honored with graduate teaching assistant award
Working as a counselor fulfilled Kassandra Kavanaugh. She became interested in the field during high school, when she started to explore career options, and then cemented that decision while taking a psychology course at the community college in her hometown of Brainerd,
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The College of Education ranks 183 in the 2024 U.S. News & World Report’s Best Education Schools, moving up 19 spots from last year. *** Several faculty, alumni and current students of the Department of Counseling and Higher Education were honored at
Read moreHESA Program Coordinator Welcome
Happy New Year! We hope you all had a relaxing winter break and a good start to the new semester. We are thrilled to share all the exciting things going on in our program. Spring is always a busy time for us.
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We would love to share what our faculty and graduate students have been up to over the past few months and celebrate their accomplishments. Faculty, student and alumni names are bolded. Faculty and Student Publications Hu, X. (2023). Using ordinary least squares
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ACPA Convention in Chicago Tuesday, March 19, at 8:30 a.m.: Scholarly Paper Presentation featuring How Can I Help: College Recovery Program Staff Experiences, presented by Quortne Hutchings, Nick Bloniarz, Yulissa Chavez Tena, Jessica Chatonda, Holly Hansen, Dakota Williams, Rabi Muslim Tuesday, March
Read moreHESA students scour campus archives for local histories of social movements
Yulissa Chavez and Madison Mathews were born long after the Vietnam War. But that time has come alive for them thanks to a research assignment in their HESA 500: Foundations of Higher Education course that sent them digging through the Founders Memorial
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Gudrun Nyunt, assistant professor in the Department of Counseling and Higher Education, was elected vice president of Membership for ACPA (American College Personnel Association)-College Student Educators International, the premier association for student affairs professionals. Her colleagues will celebrate her and other newly
Read morePowerful sounds: Peitao Zhu to perform free piano recital, share musical healing
Peitao Zhu was only 5 when he began piano lessons. Doing so made sense. His parents, now retired, both were professional musicians: father Xicai Zhu, a singer, and mother Xiaorong Zhu, who taught traditional Chinese instruments. “My mom was actually my first
Read moreGudrun Nyunt taps students to research, publish on motivations for Ed.D. pursuit
What inspires someone to pursue an Ed.D. in higher education? Why do they choose that degree over the Ph.D.? Gudrun Nyunt wanted to know. “As a faculty member, I’m always curious about what brings our students to our programs: What are they
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