GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) recently announced Anita Zucker, chair and CEO of The InterTech Group, Inc. (TIG), the 2019 honoree of the James L. Fisher Award for Distinguished Service to Education. The James L. Fisher Award for Distinguished Service to Education celebrates individuals, groups and organizations who […]
The University of Florida has awarded Patricia Snyder with the rare honor of Distinguished Professor. Snyder, only the seventh College of Education professor to ever receive this distinction, is one of three named this year university-wide. Holly Lane, associate professor and director of the School of Special Education, School Psychology and Early Childhood Studies, describes […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. —James Patterson is America’s best-selling author, but he says the greatest reward from his writing career is having the means to support literacy causes across the nation and, most recently, in his home state of Florida. On Monday (Feb. 26), at a luncheon gathering of state education leaders, legislative officials and other supporters […]
Gainesville, Fla. – The College of Education at the University of Florida reclaimed its place as the nation’s best online graduate education degree program, according to the most recent annual rankings released by U.S. News and World Report magazine. UF tied with Clemson University for the No. 1 spot in the 2019 rankings of America’s […]
University of Florida special education professor Stephen W. Smith, one of the College of Education’s most prolific researchers and federal grant generators, has been chosen to receive the Distinguished Researcher Award from the Special Education Research special interest group of the American Educational Research Association, the nation’s largest interdisciplinary research group devoted to the scientific […]
GAINESVILLE, Fla.—The College of Education at the University of Florida rode a substantial growth spurt in research funding to move up five spots to 24th in the nation in the U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of America’s Best Graduate Education Schools, released Tuesday (March 20, 2018). Among public education colleges, UF was rated […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. —James Patterson is America’s best-selling author, but he says the greatest reward from his writing career is having the means to support literacy causes across the nation and, most recently, in his home state of Florida. On Monday (Feb. 26), at a luncheon gathering of state education leaders, legislative officials and other supporters […]
University of Florida special education professor Mary Brownell has spent nearly three decades working tirelessly to prepare her teachers-in-training at the College of Education to address the needs of every student in their classrooms once they graduate. As if that weren’t enough, Brownell also has been pursuing an even higher goal—galvanizing efforts across states and […]
GAINESVILLE, Fla.—The successful five-year launch of a University of Florida-led effort to help states across the nation vastly improve teaching and school leadership for students with disabilities has received a $21 million boost to further strengthen and expand the ambitious program for another five years. By 2023, after a decade of collaborative work with education […]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – James Patterson, the world’s bestselling author, has written his share of surprise endings in literary suspense-thriller series like Alex Cross and Women’s Murder Club. On Oct. 13, though, Patterson crafted a bombshell opening chapter of sorts when he kick-started the public phase of the University of Florida College of Education’s capital campaign. […]
