About the OSU College of Education: The mission of the College of Education is to develop change agents in the form of researchers, scholars, learning leaders, teachers and counselors who make a difference by promoting innovation, social justice and lifelong learning. They prepare citizens who are socially empowered, reflective, innovative and caring members of our increasingly diverse world.
PORTLAND, Ore. – Higher education leader Pamela Eddy will speak on developing community college leaders who promote social justice at the Oregon State University College of Education’s annual Charles E. Carpenter lecture Feb. 23.
The event will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. at OSU’s Portland Center and a livestream of the talk will be shown via Zoom.
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Incorporating mindfulness into the curriculum of undergraduate social justice courses will be the topic of Oregon State University's Science Pub event at 6 p.m. Feb. 8.
The free event, which can be attended in person at the Old World Deli in Corvallis or viewed online, will feature a presentation by Kathryn McIntosh, an associate professor in Oregon State’s College of Education. The presentation is titled “Mindfulness in Social Justice Education: Critical Race Feminist Perspectives.”
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Susan Gardner, a higher education professor at the University of Maine with a strong focus on equity and inclusion in education throughout her career, has been named dean of Oregon State University’s College of Education. She will start Feb. 28.
PORTLAND, Ore. – Oregon State University’s College of Education will host a free, day-long curriculum symposium for K-12 educators who will soon be required to teach about the Holocaust and other acts of mass violence under a new Oregon law.
The symposium is believed to be the first of its kind in Oregon. It will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 15 at the OSU Portland Center, 555 SW Morrison St.
CORVALLIS, Ore. – A new analysis of multilingual students’ academic progress shows that the group’s achievement in reading and math grew substantially between 2003 and 2015, challenging the perception that these students have demonstrated few academic gains in recent years.
Multilingual students’ test scores on the National Assessment of Education Progress improved two to three times more than monolingual students’ scores in both reading and math in grades 4 and 8, researchers found.
