School of Education

NEWS

Faculty Promotions
June 12, 2026
The University of Delaware Board of Trustees approved the promotions of 89 faculty members at its semiannual meeting on May 11. Recommended for named professorships were: Carolyn Voter, Brigid Hawk McVaugh ’74 and John B. McVaugh Jr. ’71 ’75M Term Prof …
Read More
Policy and Practice Institute 2026
June 12, 2026
In partnership with the Delaware Association of School Administrators and the Delaware Department of Education (DDOE), the University of Delaware School Success Center (SSC) and Partnership for Public Education, housed within the College of Education a …
Read More
Queer Joy
June 10, 2026
All trauma, all the time. For decades, research into queer life focused solely on discrimination, stress and stigma. Mainstream film and television (when they featured queer characters at all) explored the same. The entire LGBTQ experience flattened in …
Read More
Learning Through Connection
June 5, 2026
Learning and connection. That’s what drew Juliet Samuel, now a high school chemistry teacher at Brandywine School District’s Mount Pleasant High School in Wilmington, to University of Delaware’s Teacher Residency program. Housed in the College of Educa …
Read More
Meet UD’s Youngest Grad
June 4, 2026
Antonia Vázquez did not set out to be the University of Delaware’s youngest Class of 2026 graduate. She was just satisfying an insatiable thirst for knowledge and research. At just 18, she will graduate with a 4.0, a finance degree from the Alfred Lern …
Read More
Convocation 2026
May 29, 2026
On May 21, 2026, the University of Delaware College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) celebrated 496 degree candidates in the fields of education and human development at its Convocation ceremony at UD’s Field House. The ceremony recognized the …
Read More
Celebration of Excellence 2026
May 27, 2026
In May, University of Delaware’s Department of Human Development and Family Sciences (HDFS), School of Education (SOE) and Master of Social Work program, housed in the College of Education and Human Development, celebrated outstanding achievements with …
Read More
Different Path, Same Purpose
May 21, 2026
The traditional college experience is often portrayed as a straight path — four years, one program, one campus — all leading to new adventures away from home. But for University of Delaware senior Kaitlyn Hand, success took a different route. It began …
Read More
Rena Hallam Named CEHD Dean
May 19, 2026
Rena A. Hallam, a professor of human development and family sciences, has been named the new dean of the University of Delaware’s College of Education and Human Development, Interim Provost Bill Farquhar announced today. Her appointment is effective im …
Read More
Set for Success
May 11, 2026
School leadership was not something James Wheatley, assistant principal at Sussex Central High School and University of Delaware alumnus, planned to pursue. But as he moved through his teaching career as a math specialist in Indian River School Distric …
Read More