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Supporting Indiana school districts: University Search Team

For over 60 years, Indiana’s University Search Team has offered Indiana school districts a valuable, comprehensive, cost-free consultant service helping school boards find, vet, and choose the best candidates for school superintendent.

November 22, 2024

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8 Boilermaker Educator faculty to retire in December ‘24

At a Nov. 15 retirement celebration, the College celebrated eight faculty members retiring in December 2024.

November 19, 2024

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Celebrating our faculty: 2024 Acorn Awardees

The Purdue University Office of Research held its annual Seeds for Success Acorn Award Ceremony (Nov. 13) to honor faculty recipients.

November 14, 2024

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Inclusive voices, networking opportunities: Over 150 attend 1st-time ICLCLE literacy conference at Purdue

The Fourth annual Conference on Literacy, Culture, and Language Education (ICLCLE) took place from Oct. 25 – 27, 2024, at Purdue University.

November 8, 2024

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International student teaching: Preparing teachers for a globally interconnected world

The College of Education, West Lafayette Community School Corporation, and Liceo Campo Verde in Quito, Ecuador, have announced an exciting new partnership that will open doors for international student teaching opportunities.

November 7, 2024

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How does the Electoral College work?

Over the past several months, The Conversation has asked scholars of the Electoral College to explain how this system was developed and how it works and to describe whether – and how – it gives advantages to certain people based on where they live.

November 4, 2024

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Inaugural Purdue AI in P-12 Education conference “Convergence” coming Nov. 11

The first annual Purdue AI in P-12 Education Conference, “Convergence,” will take place on Nov. 11, 2024, at Purdue University.

November 1, 2024

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Who invented the Electoral College?

Phillip J. VanFossen, interim dean and civics educator, explains how the U.S. Electoral College came about.

October 31, 2024

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Students design “a game about AI using AI”

A fictitious Purdue professor has disappeared – and you must use artificial intelligence (AI) in order to rescue her! So goes the storyline behind an Alternate Reality Game (ARG) designed by a team of Purdue graduate students.

October 18, 2024

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Purdue to host prestigious language and literacy conference for 1st time

The Fourth International Conference on Literacy, Culture, and Language Education (ICLCLE) will be held for the first time ever at Purdue University from Oct. 25-27.

October 17, 2024

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Bryan named PI on NSF grant to examine youth STEM learning

A College of Education faculty member is the principal investigator on a National Science Foundation (NSF) DRK-12 grant, in collaboration with Morgan State University.

October 10, 2024

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Interim dean Phil VanFossen speaking to attendees of the Fall Doctoral Awards ceremony.

College recognizes 1st, 2nd-year doctoral students

The College of Education honored first-year and second-year doctoral students who received prestigious graduate fellowships at an Oct. 1 luncheon in Marriott Hall’s John Purdue Room.

October 7, 2024

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