Preparing teachers, researchers, principals, superintendents and community leaders to strengthen urban neighborhoods in Chicago and across the nation

  • 1in 7 CPS students engaged with a College of Education-prepared teacher.

  • 1in 11 CPS students learning at a school led by a College of Education-prepared principal.

  • $10million in new research and outreach funding in 2017-18.

News Highlights

Dean Tatum stands in the middle of the Call Me MiSTER scholarship winners as well as principal Charles Goins and Noble Network CEO Constance Jones
High school seniors surprised with scholarships from Call Me MiSTER
Friday, April 5, 2019
As UIC College of Education Dean Alfred Tatum called out the names of the six young men in a town hall “Draft Day” ceremony Tuesday at Butler College Prep on the far South…
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Teacher Amani Ghusein stands with two students who are practicing a science experiment, throwing a cotton ball to test reflexes.

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