Accolades – below are news and notes from our alumni, faculty, staff, and students. We are proud of all the amazing accomplishments by our Neag family. If you have an accolade to share, we want to hear from you! Please send any news items (and story ideas) to shawn.kornegay@uconn.edu. Alumni Cynthia Costanzo ‘88 was named executive director […]

Together, we are embracing and promoting an assessment culture characterized by evidence-based decisions, with the intended purpose of providing a more challenging, learner-centered academic community that advances knowledge and improves vitality in all aspects of the School.  Together, using assessment, all of us can make a difference. Now that we have kicked off the fall […]

Many students at all levels struggle with writing. And many teachers welcome some help in working with them, too. The Connecticut Writing Project (CWP) at UConn is a resource both for those who teach writing, from kindergarten through college, and for the students they teach. The CWP-Storrs was established in 1982 with the goal of […]

As announced in a previous Spotlight article, Provost and Executive Vice President Peter Nichols, Ph.D., is returning to the UConn faculty after serving the university with distinction. Dr. Nichols will teach in the Neag School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership to build his experience in leadership and administration, as well as to engage in […]

Former Neag School of Education Dean Richard L. Schwab ’78 MA, ’80 Ph.D., was invested as a Neag professor on June 7. Longtime UConn donors Carol and Ray Neag ’56, who provided support for the professorship, were on hand for the investiture ceremony. A professor of educational leadership, Dr. Schwab is director of the Institute […]

As other institutions are slowing – or even reversing – the growth of their faculty, the University of Connecticut has embarked on one of the most ambitious faculty-hiring plans in U.S. higher education. Seeking to strategically expand its faculty in key research and teaching areas and boost the number of classes offered, UConn is aiming […]

Helping teachers successfully implement and sustain interventions needed to stop bullying, best implement a new curriculum, improve hand raising or address countless other behavioral and educational issues is the focus of the Neag School of Education’s Project PRIME, which is looking to partner with Connecticut schools and classrooms. The research study co-directed by Neag School […]

As sure as school bells begin to ring after Memorial Day, so too do news stories appear of students in elementary, middle, and high school being bullied. Some school districts have a new state “cyber bullying” law that allows administrators to punish students for what they say online. With one out of every three online […]

Two Alma Exley Scholars, Desi Nesmith and Jessica Raugitinane, represented UConn’s Neag School of Education on a recent visit to the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Dean Thomas DeFranco invited them to join him for a Day on the Hill, an annual event organized by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE). Raugitinane, the […]

This summer is filled with excitement with all of the happenings under the umbrella of “assessment” at the Neag School of Education. This includes: Planning to distribute the Common Entrance surveys for new candidates in four of our programs – IB/M and TCPCG Teacher Education, School Counseling, School Psychology, and UCAPP programs. Organizing the third […]