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Coming home to lead and inspire

Joan Blakey left the University of Minnesota and the School of Social Work (SSW) with a BS and MSW in hand. She now returns to SSW as an associate professor and its new director, ready to inspire students, staff, and faculty alike to strive to make..

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Introducing Campbell Hall

High amongst the trees, light streams through floor-to-ceiling glass walls, illuminating cozy seating areas where students scout out a spot to study. Students bound up and down the wide, open staircase as they go from classrooms to research labs...

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The Carmen D. and James R. Campbell Hall is the new home of the Institute of Child Development

Alumni profile: culturally responsive care

Providing culturally responsive care is Katy Armendariz’s (MSW ’09) mission, and it’s an intensely personal one. Her birth mother, homeless and suffering from an untreated mental condition, was unable to take care of her.

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Katy Armendariz

New faces on campus

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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New CEHD staff in fall 2022

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CEHD Connect Magazine is published in print three times a year and online by the University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development for alumni, faculty, staff, and friends of the college.

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Giving matters: chair appointment leads to student success stories

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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Lowell W. Hellervik

A relationship of mutuality

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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Marta Shaw on flag

Building community, raising voices

This August marked the return of the Leading in Equity, Action, and Diversity (LEAD) conference, a CEHD-sponsored event designed to give education leaders the tools and ideas necessary to disrupt pervasive racial inequities in PreK-12 schools...

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Audience at LEAD conference

CEHD’s Cambodian connections

In January 2018, Department of Curriculum and Instruction Associate Professor Vichet Chhuon, International Initiatives and Relations Director Marina Aleixo, and Department of Family Social Science Professor Catherine Solheim traveled to Cambodia...

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Keeping on the cutting edge

To meet the needs of today’s students in an ever-changing world means always keeping a vigilant eye on the latest developments across all academic disciplines. CEHD is proud to announce several new programs and degrees designed to keep our...

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Kyle Abatto, Emily Bellinger, and Megan Goeke

Giving Matters: easing financial anxiety

Yiting Li, a PhD student in the Department of Family Social Science, has focused her research on financial anxiety, especially for couples. A paper she wrote on the subject: “A Decade Review of Publications in Family Financial Socialization, Young.

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YiTing Li