Many California students remain classified as English learners despite demonstrating fluency. A new study by Associate Professor Ilana Umansky, PhD, and QRME doctoral student Havisha Khurana provides key evidence supporting reforms to California’s English learner reclassification policies.
Yvonne Fasold, a three‑time UO graduate in English, Interdisciplinary English and Education, and Curriculum and Instruction (’67, ’69, ’92), built a 40‑year career as a creative, student‑centered educator before retiring and continuing her service as an active community volunteer. A College of Education donor for over twenty years, Yvonne has helped future teachers prepare to meet the diverse learning needs of students through scholarship support.
Fifty-seven athletes represented USA Track and Field at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships, held March 20–22, 2026 in Toruń, Poland. Among them was Ryann Porter, a 2025 University of Oregon College of Education EPoL graduate, who made her global debut competing in the women’s triple jump.
Megan Kunze, associate director of the UO’s Center on Brain Injury Research & Training, is an expert on applied behavioral analysis, a research-based therapy proven effective in improving the quality of care for children with autism.
A new $20 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education will bolster the University of Oregon’s longstanding national leadership in transition services for youth with disabilities. The funding for transition services reflects the university’s expertise in special education.
For Lilia Andrew, a lifelong mathematician from Lowell, Oregon, the decision to become a school administrator was reached the way she approaches any complex problem: by weighing the variables. The numbers only worked when the COE Principal Licensure program recognized her potential and offered a donor‑funded recruitment scholarship.
Meet alumni Alex Walker, a 2020 graduate of the University of Oregon’s UOTeach master's program and current fifth grade teacher at Malabon Elementary. Alex also serves as Head Coach for Track and Field and Assistant Coach for Boys’ Soccer at Willamette High School.
Meet College of Education alumna Cati Adkins. After earning her Bachelor of Education (Family and Human Services) in 2014 and her Master of Education in Prevention Science in 2021, Adkins now serves as the School-Based Mental Health Services (SBMH) Grant Manager and Project Director at the Douglas Education Service District (ESD) in rural Southern Oregon.
The HEDCO Institute for Evidence-Based Educational Practice Undergraduate Scholars Program gives future educators and researchers a hands-on look at research and knowledge mobilization while they are undergraduates at the University of Oregon.
Meet Elementary and Special Education alumna Kate Barker, BS and MS, a veteran principal, professor, author, speaker, and leadership coach. Learn more about her decades‑long career in education and what she experienced in her professional journey that affirmed not only her path but her purpose.
