College of Education and Human Development

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Engagement

Enhancing understanding of the world

In designing graduate student programs, CEHD engages partnerships where students can build professional skills and support local areas at the same time. “Central to our work is a deep commitment to supporting student learning while engaging local...

A sack game was part of sports day at a local Bamenda community school in 2017

Toward being an antiracist institution

The Death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last May galvanized world opinion that it was beyond time to finally address racial inequities in a meaningful and lasting way. CEHD is not exempt from this reckoning. Although racial justice, diversity...

2 Animated people, one in wheelchair outside of Coffman Memorial Building

Helping families with justice system trauma

In their clinical internship work at a Minneapolis substance abuse treatment center, two Department of Family Social Science PhD candidates became deeply troubled by how few mental health services were accessible to their clients over...

Katie Ausherbauer, Molly Bailey, and Elsa Kraus

Commitment and action

This collection of stories and commentaries contains reflections and reactions offered in the wake of the killing of St. Louis Park resident George Floyd on May 25, 2020. Generated by CEHD alumni, students, faculty, and staff, the contributions...

painting of Breonna Taylor by Stephanie Morrison Gandy

Caring for our community

This collection of stories and commentaries contains reflections and reactions offered in the wake of the killing of St. Louis Park resident George Floyd on May 25, 2020. Generated by CEHD alumni, students, faculty, and staff, the contributions...

Kente Cloth

Resilience

This collection of stories and commentaries contains reflections and reactions offered in the wake of the killing of St. Louis Park resident George Floyd on May 25, 2020. Generated by CEHD alumni, students, faculty, and staff, the contributions...

	Woman holding sign with the word "justice" while standing in front of the Minnesota State Capitol

Lived experiences

This collection of stories and commentaries contains reflections and reactions offered in the wake of the killing of St. Louis Park resident George Floyd on May 25, 2020. Generated by CEHD alumni, students, faculty, and staff, the contributions...

The Weekend (collage) by PhD student Asha Omar

ICD outreach program educates youth about brain development

Graduate students in the Institute of Child Development (ICD) are educating young people about brain development and cognition through Growing Brains, a developmental neuroscience outreach program that aims to inspire children and adolescents to...

Graduate student demonstrates how to throw a bean bag

Providing Mental Health Care in a Humanitarian Crisis

For School of Social Work faculty member Katrina Cisneros, those lines from Warsan Shire’s poem, “Home,” eloquently explain why thousands of refugees are willing to risk their lives to seek asylum in the United States and why she wants to do...

Woman holding a protest sign

Creating new pathways

Irene Fernando isn’t one for wasting time. A mere 10 days into her freshman year at the U, she co-founded Students Today, Leaders Forever (STLF)—a leadership nonprofit focused on service, relationships, and action. During her tenure with the program...

Irene Fernando