by kaylasharp | Jan 17, 2007 | Dean's Messages, Press Releases
(The following note, penned by UF Education Dean Catherine Emihovich, was among the items buried in a time capsule Dec. 7, 2006, in a ceremony culminating the College of Education’s yearlong centennial celebration.) Catherine Emihovich, Ph.D. Professor and Dean...
by kaylasharp | Nov 20, 2006 | Dean's Messages, Press Releases
This fall promises to be quite exciting as we close out our centennial celebration and then gear up for new projects and activities in the spring. I want to remind everyone to plan on attending the Centennial Conference Nov. 2-4, “Closing the Achievement Gap through...
by kaylasharp | Nov 20, 2006 | Dean's Messages, Press Releases
2006 is off to a great start, with the countdown to our first Centennial Celebration event under way. Because so much is happening this year, a College calendar of events will be sent out on e-mail and posted on the Web. This calendar will be updated biweekly; if you...
by kaylasharp | Nov 20, 2006 | Dean's Messages, Press Releases
I hope everyone was able to attend our opening Centennial event with The New York Times columnist David Brooks earlier this month, because it was an absolutely wonderful way to begin our celebration. Our speaker was everything we hoped he would be – funny, charming...
by kaylasharp | Nov 20, 2006 | Dean's Messages, Press Releases
Best ideas flourish in a ‘blue-sky’ culture As we wind down this semester, it appears that the initiatives launched by the Office of Educational Research, and supported by the strategic task force on research and the FPC Research Advisory Committee, have...
by kaylasharp | Nov 20, 2006 | Dean's Messages, Press Releases
On rankings, ‘education debt’ and outreach scholarship The 2007 U.S. News & World Report rankings of America’s best graduate schools has just been released, and when I saw it, the old adage, “Live by the sword; die by the sword,” quickly came to mind, although in...
