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Our emailed digest features the latest stories about the college.
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Our College’s annual magazine, Leading with Care, highlights our outstanding students, faculty and alumni who exemplify the caring professions.
The College Celebrates Caring Alumni at Spring Banquet
The College of Education and Health Professions recently celebrated a dozen outstanding alumni who are making a difference in people's lives through research, teaching, leadership, philanthropy, and public service. The college hosted the alums at a banquet on Friday,...
Spring 2024 WE CARE-A-VAN Tour Makes Stops in Hope, Texarkana, De Queen, and Mena
The College of Education and Health Professions set out on its second WE CARE-A-VAN tour in mid-March, traveling along the verdant countryside to the southwest corner of Arkansas. Twenty-two faculty, staff, and administrators joined Dean Kate Mamiseishvili on the...
Claretha Hughes Selected for the Academy of Human Resource Development Board
The Academy of Human Resource Development recently elected Claretha Hughes, a professor of human resource development in the College of Education and Health Professions, to its board of directors. Hughes will serve a three-year term, which officially begins after the...
Graduate Program in Communication Sciences and Disorders Earns Reaccreditation
The Master of Science in Communication Sciences and Disorders Program in the College of Education and Health Professions has recently been reaccredited by the Council on Academic Accreditation, an extension of the American Speech-Language-Hearing...
Professors Use AI to Improve Communication Tools for People With Limited Speech
Two U of A professors are using artificial intelligence to improve communication tools for people with limited speech. Elizabeth Lorah and Christine Holyfield, faculty members in the College of Education and Health Professions, created an interdisciplinary research...
Fast Five With Cordes Teaching and Faculty Support Center Published for Spring 2023 Semester
Six times a year the Cordes Teaching and Faculty Support Center publishes a newsletter of advice for first-year faculty at the U of A. Newsletters for spring 2023 are posted in partnership with the University of Arkansas Libraries and Special Collections using...
Counseling, Leadership, and Research Methods stories (formerly Department of Rehabilitation, Human Resources, and Communication Disorders)
National Lab for Study of the College President Releases Seventh Volume of Journal
The Journal of Research on the College President released its seventh volume, published by the National Lab for the Study of the College President. The journal includes five research articles from scholars around the country, including those from Marquette,...
Perryman Elected to Another Term on National Association for Play Therapy Board
After serving for three years on the National Association for Play Therapy Board, Kristi Perryman was recently elected for another term. "I am truly honored to serve APT members on the board of directors and to have the opportunity to advocate at this level for...
Five Graduate Students Published in ‘Journal of Applied Research in Community Colleges’
A first publishing experience can open doors and be a critical first step in a long and prolific academic career for many students. Four adult and lifelong learning doctoral students in the College of Education and Health Professions, Ashley Rader, Chris McBeath,...
Arts Integration Fellowship Seeks Teacher Applicants for 2024-25
The award-winning ARTeacher Fellowship program in arts integration is now accepting applications for the 2024-25 school year. Secondary school teachers in English/language arts, math, science, social studies and world languages are encouraged to apply. The 10 selected...
McComas Inaugurated 85th President of Association for Science Teacher Education
William F. McComas was inaugurated the 85th president of the Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE) on Jan. 13 at the organization's annual meeting in New Orleans. McComas, a professor of science education and inaugural holder of the Parks...
Educational Leadership Professor Elected President of the Education Law Association
The Education Law Association elected Kevin P. Brady, a professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education and Health Professions, president of the organization, which is celebrating its 70th anniversary since being founded in 1954....
Patrick J. Wolf Named Among Top 50 Education Policy Professors in Country
Distinguished Professor Patrick J. Wolf has been ranked in the top 200 most influential education scholars every year since the Edu-Scholars Public Impact Rankings began in 2011. This year, he moved up nearly 30 spots to rank in the top 50. He also ranked No. 8 among...
Windgate, King Join Walton Family Foundation to Support New Cohort of Principal IMPACT Fellows
The IMPACT Arkansas Principal Fellows program has helped build leadership capacity in high-needs, rural Arkansas schools for nearly a decade with the support of the Walton Family Foundation. The U of A College of Education and Health Professions partnered with the...
Conference Highlights Education-Related Research, Examines Future of Teaching
Arkansas' new education secretary, Jacob Oliva, was the keynote speaker at the recent Moving Arkansas Education Forward Conference in Little Rock. The U of A Office of Education Policy and the Department of Education Reform organize the annual conference. It offers an...
Outdoor Leadership Minor Sees Enrollment Boost, Increased Opportunities for Students
The outdoor leadership undergraduate minor offered by the College of Education and Health Professions' Recreation and Sport Management program consistently allows students to step outside the classroom walls and into the Natural State. The program has seen...
College of Education and Health Professions Student Attends NCAA Emerging Leaders Seminar
Alexander Mitchell, a second-year graduate student in the College of Education and Health Professions Department of Health, Human Performance and Recreation, was selected to attend the NCAA Emerging Leaders Seminar. The three-day event took place in February at the...
Registration Open for March 9 Human Resource Development Connect ’24 Summit
The Human Resource Development program will host the Connect '24 Summit on Saturday, March 9. Registration for the free student-led event is open through March 1. It will be held both virtually and in person at the Graduate Education building on campus with...
Student in Online L.P.N. to B.S.N. Program Appointed to State Nursing Board
Not every U of A student studying in an online degree program serves on a state board governing their profession. Lakisha Young of Little Rock didn't hesitate when her principal at Little Rock Christian Academy, where she works as a school nurse, nominated her for a...
Rebecca ‘Bke’ Thompson Millwee Endowed Scholarship to Honor Senior Nursing Students
A newly endowed nursing scholarship and award in the College of Education and Health Professions will honor the legacy and life of Rebecca (Bke) Thompson Millwee, a loving nurse, wife and mother whose professional career embodied profound and intentional care for...
Eleanor Mann School of Nursing Receives NFLP Grant to Educate Future Faculty
Gerbert Floreschavez served as a nurse in different capacities — as a bedside nurse, preceptor, nurse instructor and unit manager — until he retired from the military in 2020. At the height of the global pandemic, he met Jan Emory, an associate professor in the...