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The University of Oregon promoted 95 faculty members in 2021, including 53 tenure-track and 42 career faculty members from across the university’s schools and colleges.

“The foundation of a great university is its faculty,” said Patrick Phillips, provost and senior vice president. “The UO’s ability to fulfill our mission, to serve our students, to discover and disseminate new knowledge, and to make a lasting impact on society depends on the faculty’s scholarship and teaching. This year’s promotion and tenure cases provide further evidence for a long-recognized truth: UO’s faculty is world class. It is therefore a pleasure to recognize and celebrate the excellence of these newly promoted faculty.”

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The University of Oregon jumped four places in the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings for best national universities, breaking into the top 100 for the first time since the UO began tracking its placement.

In the new rankings, which were released Monday, Sept. 13, the UO also moved up four spots within the top 50 of public universities.

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With donors stepping up in support of faculty hiring, student success, new facilities and much more, the University of Oregon reaches the finish line after 11 years of record-breaking fundraising.

In 2014, the University of Oregon announced what was then an ambitious campaign fundraising goal of $2 billion. The high bar was raised to $3 billion in 2018. This June, UO donors cleared that lofty mark with room to spare.

The first time Jesus “Chuy” Narvaez spent the night in a US Immigration detention center, he was eight years old. He and his mother were detained after trying to cross the US-Mexico border.

This past spring, Narvaez became a “Double Duck,” a UO graduate with two degrees, and was immediately offered a position teaching social studies at North Eugene High School with the 4j School District.

Marisa Macy is the new Cille and Ron Williams Community Chair for Early Childhood Education at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.

Macy holds a doctorate in special education with an emphasis in early childhood special education and early intervention from the University of Oregon. She earned a master’s degree in special education from the University of Oregon and a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Washington.

Twenty outstanding faculty members, the most since 2007, have been selected for the sought-after Fund for Faculty Excellence Awards for the 2021-22 academic year.

Driven by the university’s commitment to improve academic quality and reputation, the Fund for Faculty Excellence was established in 2006 with the generous support of businessman Lorry I. Lokey. The fund is designed to reward, recognize and retain world-class teaching and research at the UO. The award has been received by more than 200 faculty members.

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The College of Education’s Student Academic Services suite is now open following a summer renovation to reflect a recent advising model shift for students in the college.

Aiming to make services more accessible, the suite is now a “one-stop shop” for all undergraduate advising needs.

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The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) recently awarded its new Distinguished Early Career Professional Certificate to more than 100 members. The award recognizes early-career members who contribute to local, state, and/or national leadership, volunteering, or advocacy. The award was created to shine a unique spotlight on early career professionals’ leadership accomplishments, both to celebrate and elevate them and to show other ECPs how their peers are developing as future leaders of the professions. 

Communications Disorders and Sciences student David Bayne is a recipient.

Whether it’s been 18 months or just a few, returning to the classroom this fall is likely to bring some measure of anxiety for students, parents and teachers alike.

The start of a new school year typically generates some combination of excitement and nervousness, but going back to school this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic will be unlike any other.

To help manage anxiety, College of Education faculty members said it’s important to acknowledge the challenges that lie ahead, and they offer several strategies to manage the stress facing everyone who will be part of the school year this fall.

A trio of UO faculty members are part of a group that just released a new report on anti-Black racism and inequity during adolescence.

The new publication from the National Scientific Council on Adolescence shares research on how racism can affect adolescent development and offers recommendations to support Black youth during their middle and high school years.

UO psychologist Jennifer Pfeifer is the co-director of the organization, which focuses on the health, education and well-being of adolescents through developmental science. She is joined on the council by the UO’s Leslie Leve, a professor of counseling psychology and associate director of the Institute of Prevention Science, and Nick Allen, a professor of clinical psychology.