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