Community Impact
Hartford Public Schools and Neag School of Education Partner in Educational Leadership Program
Hartford Public Schools and UConn’s Neag School of Education have signed an agreement to collaborate in preparing a select number of Hartford teachers for careers as school principals. The agreement creates a tailor-made principal certification program called Preparing Leaders for Urban Schools (PLUS) that addresses leadership competencies and challenges that are specific to the Hartford […]
Human Rights Conference Draws High School Students
High school students will be among those at the UNESCO conference today focusing on violence against women as a human rights issue.
Dental Care Leads to Free Breast Cancer Screening
The Screening with a Smile program offers mammograms to underserved women seeking dental care at the Health Center.
Helping Adults with Reading Disabilities Improve Their Language Skills
A group of UConn speech-language pathologists is working with participants in an adult literacy program in Hartford.
Termite Trouble? Blame it on the Microbes
Molecular and cell biologist Kenneth Noll explains why termites would not be a threat to your home without the help of microbes.
Casual but Regular Teacher-Parent, Teacher-Student Communications Can Increase Both Engagement and Performance
Greater participation, fewer behavioral problems and stronger teacher-student relationships are benefits that may occur when teachers increase causal, personalized communications and regularly reach out to parents and students, said Shaun Dougherty, a Neag School of Education assistant professor of Educational Leadership & Policy.
Neag Professor Brings Rehabilitation Psychology Expertise to Turkey
Neag School of Education Professor Orv Karan, PhD, is using his more than 40 years of experience as a rehabilitation psychology and special education specialist to help medical, educational and social service providers in Turkey successfully transition youths with intellectual and developmental disabilities into the community.
Neag Adult Learning Expert Puts Focus on Farms
As the work of Associate Professor Sandy Bell (’94 Ph.D. in adult and vocational education) well illustrates, effective adult learning just doesn’t occur in classrooms. It occurs in barns, corn fields and even on East African groundnut farms.
Neag School of Education’s Professor to Examine Teacher Evaluation in New Haven
Morgaen Donaldson, an assistant professor of educational leadership at UConn’s Neag School of Education, has been awarded a Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Academy of Education (NAEd) to study how incorporating student academic achievement in teachers’ performance evaluations affects teachers’ motivation and work behaviors. Donaldson will focus her research and data gathering on New Haven’s large and […]
Philosopher Joins ACLU in Phone Records Monitoring Suit
Philosophy professor Michael Lynch has filed a friend of the court brief in the NSA legal action.