Message from the Dean Over the last decade, the UO College of Education’s community of donors has elevated our college to new heights through their incredible generosity. Your dedication has resulted in successfully reaching our campaign goal of $62M in support of talented students, brilliant faculty, and top tier academic programs at the COE. As you’ll see in this report and the FY21 Impact Report, your investment has increased scholarship support by 18 % and allowed us to hire sought-after faculty. Plus, it helped us launch programs with untold community impact like the HEDCO Clinic, Oregon Research Schools Network, and the Health Promotion Initiative in Prevention Science. Your philanthropy is an integral part of our past accomplishments and I’m excited to continue partnering with you to achieve excellence and build resilient communities together! “Our faculty close the research and development loop. More than virtually all of our peers, our researchers are unusually skilled at translating research into policy action. Equally important, they develop products of proven value for improving the educational trajectories of children and youth. ” — Randy Kamphaus, Professor and Dean
INCREASING FACULTY EXPERTISE Over the past year we have recruited and retained acclaimed professors, clinicians, and researchers with new endowed positions, as well as 32 newly hired career faculty and 21 post-doctoral and adjunct faculty positions. These talented academics bring expertise in areas such as communication disorders, education studies, and education methodology and policy, and will elevate the research capacity of the college.
RESEARCH TO EFFECT OUTCOMES We are home to 14 research and outreach units. Our faculty members in these units have a reputation for conducting innovative work in school reform, assessment, school-wide discipline and behavior management, positive youth development, family interventions, special education, early intervention, and culturally responsive educational practices. The work they do is making a difference in Oregon, across the country, and around the world. One example of how the college’s researchers are improving lives is through research designed to boost Latinx student enrollment and success in college by engaging Latinx families, teachers and counselors during middle and high school. Principal investigator Heather McLure, assistant research professor and director of the UO’s Center for Equity and Promotion notes that, “The goal is to introduce prospective first-generation college students to a university campus and to familiarize them with how it feels and where things are.”
SERVING STUDENTS WHERE THEY ARE September marked the return of students to the UO campus and the HEDCO and Lorry Lokey Education buildings. With student success top of mind, the college launched the re-imagined Student Academic Services (SAS) office on the first floor of the HEDCO building. Aiming to make student services more accessible, the SAS office is now a “one-stop shop” for students seeking undergraduate advising, scholarship opportunities, international student services, and more. Students are now meeting both in person and on-line with academic advisors to explore majors, minors and certificate programs, plan course schedules, and much more.
Degrees Awarded 224 bachelor 226 master 51 doctoral *FY21
“As has been the case all year, world-class teaching and learning is occurring, research, scholarship, and creative work is advancing at a rapid pace, and children, schools, families, and adults are being served in greater numbers by our educational, clinical, and telehealth services.” — Randy Kamphaus
Our faculty-developed research models, methods, curriculum, and assessment tools reach
97%
of Oregon children and are used in
29,000+ schools in the U.S. and internationally.
ADDRESSING INSTUTITIONAL RACISM Last year we formed a new university-wide network of faculty with the mission of accelerating and scaling up the translation of our research for the purpose of improving local, regional, and national legislation and policies that impact children, youth, and families. The Network for Equity in Education Policy (NEEP) will allow our college to better share our privilege for the benefit of marginalized children and youth who are routinely subjected to structural limitations – rooted in a racist history that can impede their development and rob them of opportunity.
EXPANDING COMMUNITY IMPACT The HEDCO Clinic has seen much success and even expansion through the pivot to telehealth over the last year and a half. The HEDCO clinic is a multidisciplinary, integrated training clinic within the College of Education, funded through a mix of public and private philanthropic sources. It is staffed by College of Education faculty researchers and clinicians who have developed comprehensive, evidence-based services in the areas of autism, speech-language-hearing, cognitive and language abilities after brain injury, and mental health counseling. One of the unique parts of the HEDCO Clinic model is that it also provides students with unique clinical and research training opportunities in an integrated healthcare setting. Thanks to gifts from donors, the clinic can offer services at low cost, which enables many families, children, and community members to receive the help they might not access or afford elsewhere.
PARTNERING WITH OREGON SCHOOLS Thanks to the incredible contributions of generous donors, the Oregon Research Schools Network (ORSN) in the College of Education has continually expanded its work to advance student outcomes across Oregon. The ORSN team has been working with Educational Service Districts (ESDs) and service providers in the areas of Trauma-Informed School Systems and using innovative technology to train educational assistants and other classified staff in the latest research-supported solutions to improve student success. We use a professional development model that builds leaders and provides a pathway for educational assistants to obtain a teacher, special education, or counseling license.
Randy Kamphaus Professor and Dean randyk@uoregon.edu| 541 346-6467 education.uoregon.edu