The top elementary principal in New York State this year is a graduate of the University at Buffalo’s LIFTS administrative education-and-mentoring program, the second consecutive year a LIFTS graduate has been honored as principal of the year.
A group of UB experts and students will hold a panel discussion on ways to strengthen efforts to make the university more accessible to underrepresented communities, and will address topics including access to visiting the university; student expectations; counselor-to-student ratios; and the application and financial aid processes.
When your team of financial aid specialists can raise the percent of Buffalo high school students successfully completing the all-important financial aid application by 61 percent in a few months, you do the reasonable thing: You try to reach more students.
Preparing young students for success throughout their education careers takes a front seat during a lecture series this fall sponsored and organized by the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy.
Billionaire philanthropist Mackenzie Scott recently made a $10 million gift to the nonprofit organization, The Literacy Lab, where University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education alumna Heather Jenkins, PhD ’11, serves as chief executive officer.
University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education PhD students Isnino Iftin and Toniqua Lawrence were awarded Prosperity Fellowships for the 2023–24 academic year. Funded through the Prentice Family Foundation, the Western New York Prosperity Fellowship supports students with a passion and talent for entrepreneurship. Fellows are awarded up to $25,000 in scholarship and internship compensation for an academic year.
GSE Associate Professor Noemi Waight recently established STEMcyclists Summer Camp, a new summer cycling program for 9th and 10th-grade students of color living in Buffalo.
The University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education held its annual Student Research Symposium on April 28 and 29, 2023, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the event.
Students in the graduate seminar “Black Writers and the Archive” have curated the exhibit through their independent research on Black literature and archival studies in the UB Poetry Collection.
