Matt de la Peña, Newbery Medal Winner for Children's Literature, Gave Provost’s Distinguished Lecture

Matt de la Peña visited San Diego State University to deliver the second Provost’s Distinguished Lecture on Wednesday, Sept. 28, at 2 p.m. in Montezuma Hall at the Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union. The event was free and open to students, faculty and staff as well as the general public.

7 Things You Didn't Know About Nina Potter

During the workday, Nina Salcedo Potter is COE’s Director of Assessment and Accreditation but at home she milks goats on her farm!  Read about her goats and more in this month’s 7 Things You Didn’t Know About the COE Faculty and Staff.

Online MAT: 100% Graduation Rate for First Cohort

The College of Education’s Online Master of Arts in Teaching has celebrated an important milestone by seeing each of the members of its first cohort graduate.

Project CARES Scholars Present at National Conference for Foster Youth

Scholars from Project CARES gave two presentations at the National Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Association’s Conference in Maryland this past summer.

Six Graduate Students Receive $2,500 Scholarship

Six graduate students in the Department of Counseling and School Psychology have received a scholarship from the Foundation for Developmental Disabilities in San Diego.
The $2,500 scholarship recipients are: Christine Horton, Jessi Krier, Sofie Lische, Anais Medina, Paul Pham and Andrew Newcombe.

Doctoral Student Gets New Post at Community College District

“When I was looking to apply for a doctorate program, I knew that my best career move was to be involved with the SDSU program.”

That’s how John Valencia feels about the San Diego State University (SDSU) Educational Leadership Doctorate of Education (Ed.D.) Program. And with good reason.

Working to Decrease Teacher Shortage

24 to 1.

That is the California student-teacher ratio, the largest in the nation and eight more students per classroom than the national average.

The reason?

Two Students Selected as Casanova Scholars

Congratulations are in order.

Two current College of Education (COE) graduate students have been selected for the Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Fellowship. One additional COE student received an honorable mention.

Stephanie Mathew is a first-year graduate student in Postsecondary Education at San Diego State University (SDSU). Oscar Duran is a first-year transfer student in the Aztec Research Fellowship Program at SDSU. Alejandro Arias, another first-year transfer student in the SDSU Aztec Research Fellowship Program, was awarded an Honorable Mention by the Pre-Doctoral Advisory Committee.