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.
X. Christine Wang, PhD, will lead education and workforce development efforts on a highly competitive grant that was awarded to UB by the National Science Foundation.
According to a recent University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education-led study, higher education practitioners should develop scholarships and peer-mentoring groups to advocate and alleviate burdens for first-generation Latinx undocumented and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (undocu/DACAmented) students.
Does 2023 bring any changes surrounding Black history and how it’s being discussed and taught in schools? Not according to LaGarrett King, associate professor.
Month’s original intent was to ensure that K-12 students understood Black people's rich history, which had been ignored or poorly conceived in schools, says UB’s LaGarrett King.
