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Welcome to the College of Education and Human Development at UMass Boston!
Mission
The College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) generates knowledge, fosters engaged learning, promotes social justice, and empowers students, educators, other professionals, and community members through teaching, research, evaluation, and public service. The urban setting of the University of Massachusetts Boston informs – and is informed by – CEHD efforts to fulfill the academic and civic purposes of education in a diverse democracy. Read more> >
Faculty Spotlight
Dr. Dwight E. Giles, Jr.
The College of Education and Human Development is pleased to announce that Higher Education Administration Professor and Senior Associate with the New England Resource Center for Higher Education, Dr. Dwight E. Giles, Jr. is the recipient of the International Association for Research on Service-learning and Community Engagement2009 Distinguished Research Award. Dr. Giles was also last year's recipient of the National Society for Experiential Education's Researcher of the Year Award.
Alumni Spotlight
Elaine Ward
Elaine has accepted the Arnold F. Graves Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), Dublin Ireland.
Based in DIT’s Centre for Social and Educational Research’s Higher Education Policy Research Unit (HERPU) she will serve as the Irish lead researcher on a collaboration between Ireland, the Netherlands, and Norway. This Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) funded project is to measure the societal impacts of universities’ research into the arts and the humanities.
This two year post kicks off in the Netherlands on August 24th. Elaine will bring Niamh and Ciara to Dublin, get Niamh settled into school and Dermot will follow. Elaine seeks continued collaboration with colleagues, so if you have any ideas for research between Ireland/Europe and the US feel free to bring it on! She plans to be at both the IARSLCE and ASHE conferences this Fall and hopes to see you there.
Dublin Institute of Technology http://www.dit.ie/
Center for Social and Educational Research http://www.dit.ie/cser/
Higher Education Policy Research Unit (HERAVALUE) http://www.dit.ie/cser/cserexpertise/hepru/researchconsultancy/
Dr. Joanne Dreher
The College of Education and Human Development is pleased to announce that Dr. Joanne Dreher, Director of the Center for Undergraduate Academic Advising at Lesley University and a 2008 graduate of the Higher Education Administration program, has been selected to receive the National Society for Experiential Education’s Dissertation Award for 2009.