Penn State’s Social Science Research Institute recently announced four new co-funded faculty members who will join the institute in the 2018-19 academic year: Maithreyi Gopalan, Alexis Santos, Kenneth Shores, and Ericka Weathers.
Penn State alumna Jane Harstad credits the College of Education for preparing her for her new position as director of Indian Education for the state of Minnesota.
The College of Education has a new endowed professorship that will benefit two departments within the college, thanks to a generous gift from Wayne K. and Anita Woolfolk Hoy.
Kevin Kinser is the new Education Policy Studies (EPS) department head in the College of Education, and he’d like to see the programs continue to advance on their current, successful path.
Maria Lewis is working collaboratively with the Pennsylvania Department of Education’s Office for Safe Schools on issues of how to better accommodate transgender youth within the state’s school districts, issues that Lewis believes can be solved not only through research but by revisiting the purpose of an educator.
Dana Mitra, an associate professor of education at Penn State, has received a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award to conduct research in Bangalore, India, in the spring of 2012.
Penn State's College of Education has received a $2.4 million commitment from Paula Donson of Anchorage, Alaska -- the largest gift ever made to the college -- in support of graduate students in the Department of Education Policy Studies. "I wanted the money to go to those who will bring change, innovation and new ideas into education," said Donson, who received her doctoral degree in curriculum and instruction from Penn State in 1982.
Ask an eleven-year-old whether homework is a bad thing, and you'll likely be greeted with vigorous nodding and not a hint of ambiguity. But do grown-up experts agree?
As with so many things, the answer is mixed.
The 14th annual Values and Leadership Conference will take place on the University Park campus on Oct. 1-3. It is sponsored by Penn State and the D.J. Willower Center for the Study of Leadership and Ethics. A call for papers is open until June 1.
