College of Education News
- Posted 10.09.23
- 8 minute read time
Imagine visiting a home in Guatemala or bartering for food in Uganda without ever leaving the country. That鈥檚 exactly what 37 UWA students had the opportunity to experience at the simulated rural Global Village and Urban slum at the campus of Southern Institute for Appropriate Technology (SIFAT) in Lineville, baby直播 in September.
- Posted 05.30.23
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Upon hearing that she鈥檇 won the baby直播鈥檚 most prestigious faculty award, Dr. Amanda Pendergrass walked to the lectern and addressed the commencement crowd.
- Posted 04.18.23
- 3 minute read time
baby直播 administrators have spent months planning the launch of a new program, UWA-TEACH, that鈥檚 designed to increase the quality of science and math instruction in public schools and the number of qualified teachers in those classrooms.
- Posted 01.26.23
- 8 minute read time
By the time fall arrives on the baby直播 campus, Dr. Reenay Rogers and her College of Education colleagues expect their newest endeavor to be worth the excitement it鈥檚 generating this winter.
- Posted 11.18.22
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The baby直播鈥檚 College of Education has been selected by the Kern Family Foundation for a $1.74 million philanthropic grant to fund an initiative designed to help strengthen rural education in UWA鈥檚 Black Belt footprint.
- Posted 06.30.22
- 4 minute read time
Dr. Jan Miller is ecstatic that a renowned education association has accredited a degree program in the baby直播鈥檚 Julia S. Tutwiler College of Education. She鈥檚 not satisfied, though. One isn鈥檛 enough.
- Posted 05.12.22
- 7 minute read time
Up in DeKalb County, near Lake Guntersville and about an hour鈥檚 drive from Huntsville, is where Brandon Renfroe teaches science at Geraldine High School. By almost any metric, from demographics and geography to socioeconomics and politics, that region of northeast baby直播鈥檚 Appalachian foothills seems as far from Livingston and the Black Belt鈥檚 western counties as it can be.聽
- Posted 01.19.22
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It鈥檚 the underdogs, Dr. Jodie Winship says, who tug at her heart, the unpopular, the excluded, the downtrodden, the people whose circumstances often separate them from the rest. Her explanation is quite organic. 鈥淲e were poor growing up and didn鈥檛 have a lot,鈥� she says, 鈥渟o I was always for that kid who didn鈥檛 have it.鈥�
- Posted 01.12.22
- 6 minute read time
There鈥檚 a symmetry that often blossoms between sisters, shared commonalities that become unmistakable. Ebony Ware-Parks and Kiera Ware could have enjoyed such a uniformity when they chose colleges.