Category: EDST

Emily Feist seated at a desk next to a student. They are completing a worksheet together.

College of Ed’s BCBA® exam pass rate is highest in Indiana

The Behavior Analyst Certification Board® (BACB®) certifies Board Certified Behavior Analysts® (BCBA®) and publishes pass rates for master’s students. College of Education Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) students have had the highest pass rate in the state of Indiana in both 2024 and 2023.

Jasmine Begeske holding a certificate on the CEC stage. Surrounding her are Susan Harvey and Kareem L. Thompson.

Begeske named CEC Arts Educator of the Year

The Council for Exceptional Children’s Division of Visual and Performing Arts Education named Jasmine Begeske the 2025 Arts Educator of the Year.

Marshay Jolly holding a certificate. Standing with her are Jennifer Smith and Phillip VanFossen.

‘Collaborative, motivated people’: College honors faculty, staff, students in spring awards ceremony

The College of Education held its annual Faculty, Staff, and Student Awards and Recognition Ceremony on April 18, 2025.  “We wish to again congratulate these winners and the other winners of department and university awards this year,” said Phillip J. VanFossen,...
Lunch & Learn attendees seated at a U-shaped table.

College hosts Global Engagement Lunch & Learn with visiting German scholars

The Purdue University College of Education is collaborating with Leibniz University Hannover’s School of Education in cross-disciplinary and transcultural perspectives in special education, literacy and language education, and social studies education.

Bryan Duarte

Duarte accepted to JHU’s new ICQCM cohort

The National Science Foundation Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, and Mixed Methodologies at Johns Hopkins University named Bryan J. Duarte as a member of the sixth 2025 William T. Grant Foundation Advanced Quantitative and Computational Scholars Cohort.

F. Richard Olenchak

Olenchak named research director for world’s largest data set on gifted children

F. Richard Olenchak was appointed the new director of research for the Gifted Development Center/Institute for the Study of Advanced Development (GDC/ISAD).