News, Events, and Community for COE Alumni
We had a lot to celebrate in 2021 — we moved forward together in a year highlighted by research breakthroughs, a record-setting first-year class, another transformative $500 million gift, and our return to community on campus.
Maiyra graduated in June 2013, with a B.S. in family and human services (FHS) and a minor in Spanish. During her senior year, she earned a year long internship at the Center for Family Development. Through collaboration with the therapists at her internship, she became interested in continuing her education at the graduate level.
Academic advisers from the College of Education recently launched a podcast, ”Look No Feather,” for students and families to learn about on-campus resources and get advice from faculty members and staff.
The podcast is hosted by advisers Ixchel Verdugo and Emma Bjorngard Basayne, who work in the Student Academic Services suite. So far, Verdugo and Bjorngard Basayne have published episodes explaining how students can get involved on campus, develop leadership skills and navigate majors within the College of Education.
There was a sense of optimism in the air when educators and students returned to school in fall 2021. For the first time in months, they were back in the classroom full-time. But that optimism transformed into realism when educators started realizing that being back in the classroom did not mean things would go back to normal.
Now, as the school year enters the halfway mark, Duato said the excitement has turned into exhaustion. The pandemic continues to put a strain on staff members who are constantly having to adjust lesson plans and spend extra hours preparing.
COE alumnus Tim Everett and Professor Jerry Rosiek are featured.
Krista Chronister, Vice Provost of Graduate Studies at the University of Oregon, and professor of Counseling Psychology in the College of Education, discusses her research on partner violence and survivors’ vocational and economic development. Chronister was named the VP of Graduate Studies in June 2021. She talks about her goals for the Division of Graduate Studies and how they support graduate students.
This year more than ever, school districts across Oregon, Washington and the rest of the country are struggling to fill positions. It’s a problem across the board, from teaching positions to office staff.
Frustration is spilling over. On Monday, teachers across the Portland Public School District demonstrated outside some school buildings before and after school trying to bring attention to how staffing issues are impacting students.
The pandemic has played a role in the staffing shortage, but it’s not the only reason for the shortage and teacher burnout.
COE alumna and Community Diversity Advisory Board member Nicole Butler-Hooton is interviewed.
For the second year in a row, the news on the higher education scene was dominated by the Covid-19 pandemic and all of its many, seemingly never-ending ramifications for colleges and universities across the country.
But the far-reaching impact of the pandemic was hardly the only story of significance in 2021. Changes in federal education policy and leadership, a continuing enrollment slide, record capital campaigns and endowment returns, and intensifying criticism of the academy by political conservatives were other developments that received extensive attention throughout the year.
The University of Oregon’s Fundraising Campaign is mentioned.
A University of Oregon scholarship program funded by the National Science Foundation is enhancing teacher education on campus and creating a ripple effect in public schools around Oregon.
Experiencing Science Practices through Research to Inspire Teaching, also known by the acronym ESPRIT, is a collaboration between the College of Education and the College of Arts and Sciences made possible in part by the UO’s STEM Careers through Outreach, Research and Education, or STEM CORE, a center that supports undergraduate research opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math, along with other programs that create opportunities in K-12 and community college settings.
This full-color, clinician-friendly manual is the authoritative guide to implementing the Joint Attention, Symbolic Play, Engagement, and Regulation (JASPER) intervention. With a strong evidence base, JASPER provides a clear, flexible structure to bolster early skills core to social communication development. The authors show how to assess 1- to 8-year-olds with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), set treatment targets, choose engaging play materials, tailor JASPER strategies to each individual, and troubleshoot common challenges.
Removing students from the classroom through exclusionary school discipline leads to negative long-term outcomes, including academic underachievement, dropout, and incarceration. Moreover, racial inequities in exclusionary discipline (known as the discipline gap) are widespread and long-standing. Decades of research show that Black students receive a disproportionate number of office discipline referrals, even when controlling for alternative explanations such as poverty. Unfortunately, many interventions used in schools to increase equity have yet to prove effective in decreasing the discipline gap.
In an article published in School Psychology, Kent McIntosh and colleagues from the University of Oregon describe the effectiveness of an intervention to reduce the use of exclusionary discipline and decrease the discipline gap.