Mark your calendar! #GivingTuesday is November 29! Get ready to support the College of Education at UIC. Together, we can empower students and faculty, discover cures, connect communities, and demand justice. Together, we…
The UIC Center for Urban Education Leadership has received a $250,000 grant to continue its efforts to assist the Chicago Public Schools’ five-year vision to strengthen its leadership pipeline. The two-year grant by…
Decoteau Irby, an associate professor in Educational Policy Studies (EDPS) in the College of Education, recently published two books that may seem dissimilar, but both find their roots in the same place: social…
The UIC College of Engineering and College of Education have received a $538,237 federal grant to continue a summer biomedical engineering program that has trained 27 Chicago Public School science teachers over the last…
Muhammad, who returned to UIC this fall as an associate professor after earning her PhD at UIC in 2013, was the recipient of the 2021 Outstanding Educator in English Language Arts Award from the National Council of Teachers of English.
The UIC Center for Literacy is launching a graduate fellowship program focused on reimagining and transforming community research methods using data and research in ways that meaningfully support the needs and interests of…
As the senior master teacher at Educare Chicago, an early childhood program on the South Side operated by Start Early, Danielle Jordan knows firsthand the challenges that teachers and their young students have…
Kathryn Chval’s ties to the University of Illinois Chicago go back to when she was a young undergraduate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and decided to pursue a degree in education…
When Nina Hike was a young child living in the Altgeld Gardens public housing projects on the far South Side, she would walk across the street to the Beaubien Woods and bring back…
The College of Education’s Center for Literacy recently published its first issue of an academic journal authored and peer-reviewed by graduate students. The journal, Literacies Across the Lifespan, will publish biannually in the…