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Chris Marvin and Jill England

20 Mar 2015    

SECD Awards

Congratulations to our 2015 CEHS Award Recipients. Please plan to attend our award reception on April 10 starting at 10 A.M. in the Sheldon Museum of Art.

Annual CEHS Staff Award
Jill England-SECD

Charman Outstanding Professor Award
Christine Marvin-SECD

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CEHS alums Poster

19 Mar 2015    

CEHS alums needed for CEHS Husker Chat April 7

Alumni from the College of Education and Human Sciences are invited to participate in an online chat Tuesday, April 7 with current CEHS students, staff and faculty. In partnership with the Nebraska Alumni Association, CEHS Husker Chat will connect alums through an online chat platform to create a unique and fun dialogue session.



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17 Mar 2015    By Lincoln Journal Star

SPED Training at School for the Blind

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln offers a program to help teachers get a master's degree or special education endorsement and Sally Giittinger, campus administrator, and her staff use it as a recruitment tool.  In areas where no qualified teachers are available, teachers from the Nebraska City school travel and fill the gap, she said.

About 50 teachers in the state are qualified to teach blind and visually impaired students, Giittinger said, and that's not enought ot serve about 800 students.

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Nebraska Center for the Education of Children Who Are Blind

17 Mar 2015    

SECD visually impaired program featured in LJS article

The Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders offers a special education endorsement program in visual impairments. The online course, taken over the course of 2 1/2 years, was mentioned in a recent article in the Lincoln Journal Star newspaper. The program is offered in cooperation with the Nebraska Department of Education and the Nebraska Center for the Education of Children Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired.

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Nebraska Center for the Education of Children Who Are Blind

17 Mar 2015    

SECD visually impaired program featured in LJS article

The Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders offers a special education endorsement program in visual impairments. The online course, taken over the course of 2 1/2 years, was mentioned in a recent article in the Lincoln Journal Star newspaper. The program is offered in cooperation with the Nebraska Department of Education and the Nebraska Center for the Education of Children Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired.

View SECD visually impaired program featured in LJS article Article

11 Mar 2015    

Biennial Juried Student Exhibition

Twenty-four pieces of some of the finest work produced by UNL’s fashion and textile design students will be on display at the Biennial Student Juried Exhibition at the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery in the Department of Textiles Merchandising and Fashion Design in the College of Education and Human Sciences. The work will be on display in the gallery on the second floor of the Human Sciences Building between March 16 and April 10, 2015.



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Photo of Teachers College Hall

10 Mar 2015    By Brad Stauffer

CEHS graduate education program jumps to 40th

The graduate education program in the College of Education and Human Sciences (CEHS) at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln jumped eight spots to number 40 in national rankings released March 10, 2015 by U.S. News & World Report. Nebraska moved past Big Ten counterparts Rutgers and Iowa in this year’s rankings.

CEHS Dean Marjorie Kostelnik said the climb in this year’s rankings reflects the college’s success in preparing students to make a difference in the lives of individuals, families, schools and communities.



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LeeAnn Vaughan 2014 McAuliffe Winner

06 Mar 2015    By Gregg Wright, emeritus professor, Center on Children, Families and the Law

Omaha teacher recipient of CEHS McAuliffe Award

Christa McAuliffe was a social studies teacher. So you don’t have to teach rocketry or launch a high school Air and Space Academy to win the Christa McAuliffe Prize. But that’s just how LeeAnn Vaughan has done it, with courage and excellence.



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Dr. Bischoff

05 Mar 2015    

Bischoff Wins BoHS Emerging Administrator Award

Dr. Richard Bischoff, Gwendolyn A. Newkirk Professor of Leadership in Child, Youth and Family Studies and Department Chair of the Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies, has accepted the Board on Human Sciences Emerging Administrator Award.

The award recognizes an individual who has demonstrated significant potential, as a new administrator in academia or extension, to make outstanding contributions to the family and consumer sciences/human sciences profession.



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04 Mar 2015    

The Lost Art of Dress Public Lecture

On Monday April 20, 2015 the Department of Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design (TMFD) will host a free public lecture and book signing by Linda Przybyszewski, author of The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish, at 5:00 p.m. in the auditorium in Nebraska Union on UNL’s city campus. Dr.



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