CEHD News

Vavrus and Levison receive Collaborative Research Circle grant

Frances Vavrus, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development (OLPD), and Deborah Levison, Ph.D., professor in the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, have received a Collaborative Research Circle grant from the University's Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change for a project entitled "Subjects, Objects, Agents: Children's Lives and Livelihoods in the Global South." The two-year grant will facilitate interdisciplinary research among faculty and doctoral students in several departments including Applied Economics, Communication Studies, History, OLPD, and Sociology.

Former FSoS Professor Gerry Neubeck featured in NCFR Report

Gerhard (Gerry) Neubeck was a professor of family social science at the University of Minnesota, and became NCFR's 35th president in 1977. Until 1940, Nuebeck lived in Germany, where he was a German-Jewish athlete. In the run-up to the 1936...

NCATE awards highest distinction, renewed accreditation to CEHD teacher education programs

The University of Minnesota's College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) has been awarded the highest standard of accreditation and was recognized for exemplary performance in its partnership with local schools by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education...