In July of 2022, Neela Nandyal, a PhD student in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development’s Comparative and International Development Education program, visited the South American country of Ecuador. "I was there to..."
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When the Minnesota Association of School Administrators selects its annual Superintendent of the Year, it’s a good bet that the honoree has some connection to the PK-12 Administrative Licensure Certificate program in the Department of OLPD...
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When it comes to making education more equitable and culturally relevant, Courtney Bell-Duncan is not interested in low-level changes. “I’m definitely a system-level change maker,” she says.
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Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, close to 300 CEHD students enrolled in education abroad programs annually. Students participated in a variety of programs, from short-term ones lasting only a few weeks, to those lasting an entire semester...
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Zhanat Momynkulov says he had always dreamed about visiting and studying in the United States because of its strong academic and research traditions. From June to November 2022, he got his chance as part of the first CEHD Bolashaq Visiting Scholar...
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I grew up knowing that the Mississippi River was both “great” and with falls. From my earliest memories, I remember trying to spell M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I orally the fastest. Yet, I never knew the Dakota language for this precious, life-giving...
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CEHD is welcoming one of its largest cohorts of new faculty members beginning this fall. We are proud to introduce them and look forward to the insights and expertise they will bring to our college.
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For the past seven years, OLPD Professor Sasha Ardichvili has held the Hellervik Endowed Chair in Leadership and Adult Career Development. For Ardichvili, it’s not what the chair does for him, but what it helps him do for others that he has found..
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Poland shares a 332-mile (535 km) border with Ukraine. Since the Russian invasion began in February 2022, more than 3.5 million people have come across that border to flee their war-ravaged homeland.
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