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March 31, 2025 — Graduate student studies teacher's perspectives and opinions about school lockdown drills
March 5, 2025 — UNC celebrates making education more affordable
March 3, 2025 — Doctoral student's research studies how physical activity impacts preschool children's on-task behavior, engagement and focus
January 30, 2025 — 'Exposure to student trauma has become an occupational hazard for teachers': School Psychology student's research study found teacher stress exceeded the level typically reported by emergency nurses, mental health professionals and social workers.
January 24, 2025 — More than 500 high school and community college students will participate in the free, day-long conference.
December 16, 2024 — Graduate student hopes her research can help instructors design a curriculum that fosters recruitment and retention and increases students’ comfort, confidence and interest in the geosciences.
November 12, 2024 — UNC is dedicated to creating opportunities and breaking down barriers for our students — both current and past students. The Graduate School has taken their commitment to uplift and empower students upon itself by waiving application fees for students and alumni.
November 12, 2024 — Student research examines the impact of typeface on mathematics learning and performance.
September 10, 2024 — Isa Schulte came to UNC from her home in Denver to pursue her passion of becoming a teacher. Once on campus, Schulte got involved in her community of future teachers through the Cumbres Teacher Preparation Program and other extracurriculars, even becoming the treasurer and Cumbres liaison for the Future Teacher Club.
September 10, 2024 — UNC has set the bar for educator preparation in Colorado for decades. Now, innovating how we provide access to high-quality education for those pursuing a career in teaching has been reinvigorated through the establishment of the Center for Innovative Educator Preparation.
September 3, 2024 — Doctoral student's dissertation evaluates effectiveness of adding DEI course to undergraduate curriculum.
August 8, 2024 — New approach aims to amplify students' critical thinking powers and tie learning to real-world applications.
August 1, 2024 — Veteran teacher researching strategies to better support educators at every level of their career.
July 9, 2024 — Driven by her compassion for fellow educators, doctoral student and seasoned K-12 teacher and administrator explores whether yoga can work as a proactive intervention strategy to mitigate teacher stress.
June 24, 2024 — Graduate students' research is poised to push boundaries by examining metacognitive processes specifically during mathematical proof writing tasks.
June 17, 2024 — Doctoral student ‘s research supports popular educational ecosystem framework as a way to understand and address school reform.
May 30, 2024 — Graduate student explores curriculum enhancements that would help students become better informed consumers of data-related news and messages.
April 26, 2024 — Studying at the University of Northern Colorado changed Fernando Beltran’s life. And now he is committed to changing the lives of others.
March 29, 2024 — In first research of its kind, UNC graduate student explores how children with cortical/cerebral visual impairment are evaluated on a popular standardized cognitive assessment
February 16, 2024 — When it comes to talking about values, it is clear that David Barillas Chón’s, Ph.D., priorities are about the community. Barillas Chón was recently hired as an assistant professor in the Chicana/o and Latinx Studies Department (CLAS) at the University of Northern Colorado.
February 13, 2024 — Center for Urban Education leaders gear up to receive an impactful award
January 23, 2024 — Chemical Education doctoral student Alex Graves is researching whether achievement emotions affect how well a student performs a task.
January 9, 2024 — UNC is awarding two $1,000 student scholarships at the ninth annual Future Teacher Conference and Future Rural Teachers Summit Feb. 1-2.
January 3, 2024 — $5 Million Grant Expected to Increase Colorado’s Pipeline
November 30, 2023 — Guest speakers bring a change of pace to any learning environment. In the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, two professors walk into a classroom, but it’s a high school classroom: Kyle Anne Nelson, Ph.D., MPH, professor and chair of the Sociology department and Chris Talbot, Ph.D., professor of Gender Studies.
November 9, 2023 — International Education Week is an opportunity to learn about international academic experiences at UNC.
September 8, 2023 — Twelve hours from home and separated from the single mother who raised him as an only child, Parker Coffelt isn’t wasting any time getting acclimated to the college life.
August 18, 2023 — Doctoral student researching ways teachers can use technology in their curriculum designs.
August 11, 2023 — Five years out, people with humanities degrees are making equivalent money to people from a STEM discipline. The kinds of things that folks in the humanities and the arts develop are the very things that corporations want in their employees
July 23, 2023 — Lena Kisner’s passion for early childhood special education spurred her investigation of preschool inclusion rates in rural Kansas schools. She’s a special education director, overseeing children from birth to age 21 for five interlocal school districts.
June 7, 2023 — Kimberly Crystal Monroe is earning her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology in a University of Northern Colorado building a stone’s throw from her former preschool on a campus where several of her family members studied.
May 24, 2023 — University of Northern Colorado Department of History Lecturer Kelly Langley Cook has been selected as the recipient of the 2023 Sears Helgoth Distinguished Teaching Award.
May 11, 2023 — When K-12 public schools shifted to online learning models during COVID-19, special education directors scrambled to meet students’ needs while adhering to strict legal requirements.
April 27, 2023 — First-gen Nursing major Rosemary Gonzalez know attending college without her parents fully understanding all the steps it takes to get there would create some obstacles and adversities. Facing those is when she realized that for her to be successful in higher education, she needed to find a new support system. –También en español
March 15, 2023 — Jenny Pettit went to Belize three times to conduct research for her dissertation “Educational Experiences that Influence the Upward Mobility of Maya Women in Belize,” which was awarded UNC’s Graduate Dean’s Citation for Outstanding Dissertation last year. Pettit identified three Maya women who were leaders in their communities and examined how their educational and other life experiences had influenced their success.
January 27, 2023 — Since 2000, UNC's Center for Urban Education has been enrolling and graduating paraeducators working in local schools, offering a hybrid program that pairs bachelor’s-level coursework with clinical teaching experience that starts the first day of the program. CUE's educator programs have consistently high graduation and placement rates (over 90%) and its students—70% of whom are people of color and 94% of whom are first-generation—bring diversity to Colorado’s educator workforce.
November 7, 2022 — A year ago, Nayzeth Hernandez of Greeley was finishing the first semester of her senior year in high school, preparing to be one of 27 Greeley Central High School students attending the 2022 UNC’s Future Teachers Conference with their teacher, Lauren Appelhans ’14. Now, Hernandez is a freshman at UNC, with the perspective of a college student majoring in Elementary Education just finishing up her first semester.
August 23, 2022 — University of Northern Colorado School of Teacher Education Professor Suzette Youngs, Ph.D., has been selected as the recipient of the 2022 Sears Helgoth Distinguished Teaching Award.
March 25, 2022 — UNC is one of 31 public institutions across the state enticing Colorado residents to return to college to earn their certificate or degree by offering financial assistance and support services through the Colorado Opportunity Scholarship Initiative’s (COSI) Finish What You Started program.
March 3, 2022 — As a teacher preparation institute, those in UNC's College of Natural and Health Sciences take pride in pushing for more physical education classes in Colorado schools, though there is an uphill battle to overcome.
January 19, 2022 — High school and community college students interested in teaching careers have an opportunity to hear from professional educators and gain valuable knowledge about the field during a free two-day event, Feb. 17-18.
September 3, 2021 — UNC was selected in a highly competitive grant process, as a recipient of a $850,000 Colorado Scholarship Opportunity Initiative (COSI) Back to Work grant. The funding will provide new career paths for workers displaced by the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic while also addressing the need for teachers in Colorado’s classrooms.
May 26, 2021 — After three years of working with the Colorado Department of Higher Education and the Colorado Department of Education, the Colorado State Board of Education voted unanimously on May 12 to fully reauthorize UNC’s Elementary Education and Early Childhood Education programs.
March 4, 2021 — A UNC faculty member was one of four individuals who received this year’s Edward C. Pomeroy Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teacher Education from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.
March 4, 2021 — In a never-ending quest to fuel the teaching pipeline in Colorado and nationwide, UNC virtually hosted its sixth annual Future Teacher Conference on Feb. 19 with keynote speaker Governor Jared Polis.
January 28, 2021 — UNC has announced that Jared Stallones, Ph.D., will become the next dean of the College of Education and Behavioral Sciences.
December 8, 2020 — The Active Schools Institute at UNC has received two grants totaling $125,000 from the Colorado Department of Education to improve the quality of physical education and physical activity opportunities for K-12 students in Colorado.
September 9, 2020 — Faculty members at UNC are finding creative ways to keep students involved virtually. Two Audiology and Speech-Language Sciences classes involve students receiving built-it-yourself kits of cigar box guitars and PVC pipe didgeridoos to learn about acoustics.
June 12, 2020 — The Colorado State Board of Education on Thursday approved reauthorization of the University of Northern Colorado’s 34 teacher education programs with an extension of conditions in literacy instruction for two endorsement areas offered at the university.
April 10, 2020 — As K-12 schools, colleges and universities turn to online instruction, the dean of UNC’s College of Education and Behavioral Sciences offers tips for students, parents and educators to succeed in this new reality.
April 10, 2020 — In addition to changes made at UNC to better support Bears going through the switch to online classes, UNC students and alumni in the teaching field are taking diverse approaches to supporting families in the switch to online learning for their children in preschool through high school.
March 24, 2020 — Your kids’ schools are closed, and you’re working from home. Looking for some ideas to help all of you stay sane? Here’s how to engage your kids in something they love.
February 7, 2020 — The StudyColorado Advocacy Day took place at the state capitol last week to showcase the benefits of international education in higher education institutions around the state. Two UNC students participated at the event.
January 29, 2020 — Lucile Buchanan enrolled in a two-year teacher certification program at the now University of Northern Colorado in 1903 and was the only African American student in her 1905 graduating class and the first African-American student to earn a teaching degree at UNC. Learn more about her story.
December 16, 2019 — UNC, in a never-ending quest to end the teaching shortage in Colorado and nationwide, will host the sixth annual Future Teacher Conference starting at 7:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 21.
October 15, 2019 — UNC is hosting a group of 21 international secondary teachers from 20 countries who are participating in the Fulbright Teacher Excellence and Achievement Exchange Program.
July 10, 2019 — The University of Northern Colorado Technology, Innovation and Pedagogy's Creativity Lab has partnered with iThrive Games to host Game Design Studio, a two-week summer day camp program, on campus July 8-19.
June 13, 2019 — Once a month, students, parents, school staff and community members nominate a teacher in a Northern Colorado K-12 school for being an outstanding educator, and two UNC grads have won.
May 14, 2019 — UNC has new tenants on campus — thousands of them! In Ross Hall, an observable bee hive was installed with hardworking honeybees fortifying their new home.
March 27, 2019 — Individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing or deafblind and live in rural Colorado may see an increase in qualified American Sign Language interpreters as a new certification training program begins. The Rural Interpreting Services Project was made possible by a partnership between UNC’s Department of American Sign Language and Interpreting Studies and the Colorado Commission for the Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and DeafBlind.
March 15, 2019 — The Colorado State Board of Education recently reauthorized all UNC’s educator preparation programs, with conditions for reading instruction that UNC is already addressing.
January 24, 2019 — UNC education students can expect to take six-credit hours in preparation of better teaching of STEM subjects to English language learners. UNC Professor of Language Education and Associate Dean and School Director of Teacher Education Jingzi Huang, Ph.D., goes into more detail about these developments and her involvement in a recent conference.
April 2, 2018 — The Colorado School of Mines (Mines) and the University of Northern Colorado (UNC) formalized an agreement for a program they developed to increase the number of students prepared to teach in secondary science and math.
August 28, 2017 — For the sixth consecutive year, UNC's School of Teacher Education is hosting English teachers from Pakistan as part of the Teaching Excellence and Achievement (TEA) Program sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad and administered by the International Research and Exchanges Board.
July 14, 2017 — The summer slide isn’t limited to academics, according to a nationally-known expert who delivered a keynote presentation Friday on childhood obesity at UNC’s Physical Activity Leadership Academy.
July 12, 2017 — "Most student teachers think that it would be really great to be in the bright lights of the big cities.... But the reality is there are great opportunities for teachers who would commit to student teaching in rural districts. We want to offer this as an incentive for them." — Center Director Harvey Rude to Christian Science Monitor
June 26, 2017 — Cash-strapped small districts that serve 130,000 students struggle to attract and retain educators amid a shrinking pool of candidates
June 21, 2017 — A Colorado Health Foundation-funded project being led by the University of Northern Colorado aims to get K-12 students healthier and more active in their classrooms throughout the school day.
March 15, 2017 — Students in classes offered at UNC's Center for Urban Education in Denver recently benefited from the insights of two trailblazers from the state's political scene: former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter and former state legislator Polly Baca.
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