Category: News
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2025 SEHD Alumni Leadership Awards Featured in CU Denver News
“The University of Colorado Denver’s School of Education & Human Development (SEHD) hosted its 2025 Alumni Leadership Awards on July 22, honoring five distinguished alumni and two posthumous awardees whose visionary leadership has shaped the field of early childhood education across the nation and the globe.” [Read More]
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Paula Budzak’s Legacy Gift to SEHD’s Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education program Featured in Faculty/Staff Edition of CU Denver News
“A generous $200,000 endowed gift from Paula Budzak (MA in Curriculum and Instruction, ’99) will provide support for students in the Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education program at the University of Colorado Denver’s School of Education & Human Development. Budzak, a retired English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher, spent much of her career serving…
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Couple and Family Therapy Program Featured in Student Edition of CU Denver News
“When Jia Jari first found herself in a counseling office as the therapist, she had a pit in her stomach. “I was in the room with this person, and I was like, ‘There should really be an adult here.’” Jari said. “Then I was like, ‘Oh—I’m the adult here.’” ” [Read More]
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Tom “YiLe” Su Book Chapter Published in The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
Chapter 11: Diversity, Intersectionality, and the Role of Religion in Intercultural Relationships. [Read More]
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August: Creating Belonging from Day One: Small Shifts, Big Impact
Welcome to the SEHD Impact! Inclusive Excellence monthly (beta)—a space to explore practices, stories, and reflections that advance SEHD’s inclusive excellence principles and plan, including equity, belonging, and courageous improvement across our school community. Each month, this series will explore some of the ways in which how inclusive excellence might show up in our work,…
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Federal Funding Opportunities
Federal Funding Opportunities Opportunity Description Posted Date Closing Date Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration Grant Program This program provides competitive grants to State educational agencies to address the shortage of credentialed school-based mental health services providers. July 17, 2025 August 18, 2025 Office of Naval Research Naval STEM Education and Workforce Program This program is…
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Julia Mahfouz Published in Psychology in the Schools
Homeroom Teachers and Their Role in Addressing Students’ Needs “Drawing on self-determination theory (SDT), this qualitative study examines elementary homeroom teachers’ beliefs and values, and how they perceive their role in addressing students’ needs.” [Read More]
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Elizabeth A. Steed Published in the British Educational Research Journal
The future in a bubble: Supporting Finnish early childhood professionals working in diverse settings “The purpose of this study was to contribute to the knowledge about early childhood education and care (ECEC) personnel’s perception of the support structures that are most effective in assisting them in their work with culturally and linguistically diverse children. This…
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Franci Crepeau-Hobson Awarded Fellow Status by the American Psychological Association
Congratulations to Franci Crepeau-Hobson, who was awarded Fellow status by the American Psychological Association. After careful consideration by the APA Fellows Committee, and upon the recommendation of the APA Board of Directors, the APA Council of Representatives has elected Dr Franci Crepeau-Hobson to Fellow status in the American Psychological Association, effective January 1, 2026. Fellow status is awarded, in part, on…
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Reminder – Recent Book and Book Chapter Citations Needed for Future Edge News Article
Have you published a new book or book chapter since August, 2024? We want to feature your title in the research edition of Edge News. We are getting ready to write a new article about recent books and book chapters written by SEHD faculty or staff. Please send your book and book chapter citations (published between August 2024 – July 2025) to julia.cummings@ucdenver.edu by August 10th or sooner.