Education

Alumnus uses skills learned at UCI in overseeing nonprofit’s education efforts in rural Africa

A UCI education professor has been drafted to help investigate why the usual benefits of preschool don’t always carry over to elementary school, especially for students from low-income families. Chancellor’s Professor Carol Connor will receive a $2 million grant from the Institute of Education Sciences as part of a five-year national research effort to improve early childhood education. The […]

UCI faculty members received three of the Russell Sage Foundation’s 19 visiting scholar appointments for the 2016-17 academic year. Greg Duncan, Distinguished Professor of education; Cynthia Feliciano, associate professor of sociology and Chicano/Latino studies; and Rubén G. Rumbaut, Distinguished Professor of sociology, will pursue research and writing projects that reflect the foundation’s commitment to strengthening […]

A change in leadership and a golden anniversary mark the start of a new era – and vision – for the university

The way people pay for things is changing, UCI experts say. Will paper money become passé?

In the spirit of UCI’s forward-thinking founders, campus researchers see beyond the present to create a brilliant future

Record $40 million gift from Sue and Bill Gross addresses growing need in healthcare

In a newly released study of 800 colleges, UCI’s School of Education was one of only 35 programs recognized for ensuring that future high school teachers effectively master their chosen specialty. The National Council on Teacher Quality analysis was accompanied by a survey that found 32 percent of high school students doubted their teachers’ knowledge of classroom subject matter. A teacher’s topic mastery is “directly correlated with […]

UCI’s Thomas Parham will urge Pico Rivera students to apply

Anteater Academy at once-underperforming Santa Ana high school graduates first cohort of college-bound teens. The program is an example of UCI’s outreach to underrepresented students that placed it at the top of The New York Times’ College Access Index of schools that do the most for low-income students. Thirteen recent graduates of the school will attend UCI in the fall.