UF Continues to Lead in Online Education
UF has once again demonstrated strength and leadership in online graduate education rankings – No. 2 in the nation. UF has been in the No. 1 or 2 spot for the past seven years.
UF faculty works to uplift our community’s nonprofit frontline workers
Latoya Haynes-Thoby, assistant professor, licensed professional counselor and trauma specialist, created a transformative workshop series to support the frontline staff of GRACE Marketplace in the rise of the global pandemic.
UF Distinguished Professor retires after more than 33 years
Paul Sindelar, UF Distinguished Professor and professor of special education, retires after serving more than 33 years at the College of Education.
Remembering Catherine Emihovich
CATHERINE EMIHOVICH, PH.D. College of Education Catherine Emihovich, former dean of the UF College of Education, passed away on August 21 after a long and challenging illness. The EduGator community joins Dr. Emihovich’s family in mourning her death. Dr. Emihovich...
He will be missed: Professor Emeritus John Newell dies at 91
John Michael Newell, Ph.D., 91, a professor emeritus of educational psychology and a 30-year member of the graduate faculty at the UF College of Education, passed away Sunday, June 11, in Gainesville. He was a longtime instructor in the Department of Foundations of Education and served as acting director of the unit for two years in 1981-1983.
COE responds to tragic death of Professor Emeritus Thomas Oakland
(Thomas Oakland, a beloved and world-renowned professor of school psychology at the UF College of Education from 1995 until his retirement in 2010, was killed on Wednesday, March 4, when, Gainesville police allege, a local man set Dr. Oakland's house on fire after...
In memoriam: Hannelore Wass, professor emeritus, death studies pioneer, scholarship donor
Hannelore Wass, a professor emeritus in education psychology at UF’s College of Education and a prominent scholar in the field of death studies, died Friday, April 12 at age 86. Dr. Wass was one of the college’s pioneers in bringing professional journals to the...
In Memoriam – William H. Drummond (1921-2008)
William Drummond
Bert Sharp, former COE dean, dies at 81
Former COE dean Bert Sharp, who led UF’s College of Education
through the turbulent and transformative 1970s, died Aug. 31 in Naples. He was
81.
Sharp was a professor in the Counselor Education department
in 1968, when he was catapulted into the dean’s position by the tragic death of
then-dean Kimball Wiles, who was killed in a car accident.
Margaret Early, emeritus professor and unsung hero of college access, dies at 84
Margaret Early, the UF emeritus professor who quietly set up scholarships for inner city kids, died June 28 at her home in Gainesville. She was 84.