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Tag: undergraduate research

Special Ed major’s honors project offers advice for teachers with COVID burnout

November 17, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, SEED

Lindsey Comeau was only 6 when she began volunteering for the National Association for Down Syndrome’s annual Bowl-A-Thon. The senior Special Education major from Romeoville drew her motivation from a family friend with Down Syndrome, eventually becoming a counselor at a Northern

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Project CUP research illustrates challenge of managing tough home lives of students

May 15, 2019 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

Jan Solano arrived at the home of virtual strangers to watch, like a fly on the wall, how they prepared themselves for the day. It was 6 a.m. The mother of the family knew that Solano, a junior Middle Level Teaching and

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Valuable experience: Students continue to research, present with COE professors

January 24, 2019 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, SEED

Lorena Flores glimpsed how just one NIU Department of Curriculum and Instruction class in multiculturalism could influence the beliefs of the students who had come before her in Gabel Hall. Gisela Lopez-Lauderdale learned how P-12 schools can best engage Latino families of

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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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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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April 21, 25 offer two great ways to back College of Ed students

April 11, 2017 Mark McGowan enewsletter

Two upcoming events will provide great opportunities for NIU College of Education faculty and staff to show their support of students. CoE Student Research Symposium Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to attend the second annual CoE Student Research Symposium, scheduled from

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‘SPICE’ presentation to explore faculty-student research Oct. 13

October 4, 2016 Mark McGowan enewsletter

Higher education has identified the engagement of undergraduate students in research as a high-impact practice, something NIU has emphasized for the past decade. Faculty in the athletic training program of the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education have established an excellent track

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Are MOOCs democratizing higher education?

August 4, 2015 admin-salvani LEPF

Since the term was coined in 2008, MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses, have been talked about as a potentially significant democratizing force in higher education. With open enrollment, virtually no limit to class size, and often free, MOOCs seem to offer

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