Educational Leadership

HESA Alums Offer Valuable Insight to Current Students

The Higher Education and Student Affairs (HESA) program’s first alumni feedback panel meeting this past February was a successful effort to enhance program offerings.  Alumni from a community college, a regional public university, and a technical college were invited to share their views of what elements of the current HESA program were useful and what […]

Educational Leadership Scholarship Named After Beloved UCAPP Professor

As Earle Bidwell ’71 sees it, his job as a University of Connecticut Administrator Preparation Program (UCAPP) clinical supervisor is to lead by example and help students working to become a principal, vice principal, department head or other school administrator see their strengths and “bring out all they have to offer.” This kind of dedication […]

Prof. Preston Green III, an expert in education law, will join the University of Connecticut faculty in the fall. (Julia Henry / Courtesy of Preston Green)

Education Law Expert Preston Green III Joins UConn Faculty

Green, who will join UConn from Penn State in the fall, will have a joint appointment in the Neag School and the School of Law.

New Opportunities Come With Sport Management-Educational Leadership Pairing

Because Sport Management is more about educating students to become leaders in the sport industry than exercise scientists, athletic trainers or physical therapists, the program has transitioned out of the Department Kinesiology and into the Department of Educational Leadership. Both are within UConn’s Neag School of Education. Sport Management faculty offices are now located in […]

A pair of mature students engaging themselves in their lesson.

Learning to Teach Adult Students

The Neag School’s adult learning program helps professionals better educate other adults.

College Administrators of Tomorrow Get Experience in HESA Program

Future college administrators get hands-on experience in selective program.

Home Run for Sport Management Alumna

When Xaimara Coss went to basketball or football games as a child, she was often more interested in the guys on the sidelines than she was the players in the game. “I used to wonder what the man with the clipboard was doing,” Coss says. “Who is that with the walkie-talkie, and who is he […]