Neag School of Education
Annual Forum Features State Education Leaders
More than 60 Neag School alums, students, faculty, and administrators, along with education professionals from across Connecticut, gathered last month for an evening of networking, followed by a panel discussion at the Darien Community Association in Darien, Conn. This year’s forum, held for the first time in Fairfield County, was hosted by Neag School Dean’s Board of Advocates members James Degnan ’87 (CLAS) and Elizabeth Degnan ’87 (CLAS).
10 Questions With 3rd-Year Teacher: Valuing Diversity in the Classroom
Aryliz (Crespo) Estrela ’16 (ED), ’17 MA is now in the midst of her third year of teaching after having completed the Neag School’s five-year Integrated Bachelor’s/Master’s Program in 2017. Looking back, she shares some sage advice about what she learned during her first year in the classroom — one that she sums up in three words: “Fun. Insightful. Courageous.”
$1M in Federal Funding to Support Doctoral Students in Special Ed
In partnership with a consortium that includes six other universities across the nation, the Neag School’s special education doctoral program and Center for Behavioral Education and Research (CBER) will once again be part of a federal grant designated to support a total of nearly 30 future scholars in the field of special education.
UConn Plays Host to International Sport Mentoring Program
Launched by the U.S. Department of State, the Global Sports Mentoring Program is a leadership development project aimed at advancing gender equity through sports.
Educating Educators to Help Children with High-Intensity Special Needs
UConn researchers have received a $6.5M grant from the US Department of Education to develop a program to help young children with high intensity needs due to intellectual and developmental disabilities.
CSCH Co-Hosts Second Symposium on Trauma-Informed Mental Health
Approximately 70 school, behavioral health, community, and research leaders from across the state gathered at the University of Connecticut campus in Storrs on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, to discuss school and community responses to childhood trauma and how to align work around trauma-informed schools in Connecticut.
Op-ed: Missing in Efforts to Curb Heavy Drinking and Hazing on Campuses
Drinking alcohol is deeply embedded in society’s notions about what it means to be a man, and attacking the problem necessitates dismantling that idea, says Adam McCready, visiting professor.
Neag School Holds Annual Scholarship Awards Celebration
The Neag School community honored more than 150 Neag School student scholarship recipients last month at the School’s Annual Scholarship Awards Celebration, many of whom attended the celebratory luncheon in Rome Commons Ballroom with their family and friends.
More Than $5M in Federal Funding to Support Gifted Education Research Projects
Neag School educational psychology faculty have secured more than $5 million in federal funding through the U.S. Department of Education’s Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Act for two new research projects centered on gifted education.
$2.5M Grant to Support BU Wheelock, Neag School Partnership Project
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded $2.5 million in funding through its Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) to special education faculty at Boston University (BU)’s Wheelock College of Education & Human Development and UConn’s Neag School of Education for a project that will fully fund five doctoral students at each institution over the next five years.