Category: Of Interest

  • Seeking applications for Senior Instructor, ABA, Special Education Program, 50% time

    Dear colleagues,  The School of Education & Human Development is seeking applications for Senior Instructor, ABA, Special Education Program, 50% time. The position is available at CU Careers, requisition #37013: Job Description – Senior Instructor, ABA, Special Education Program (37013) If you know someone qualified for this position, please encourage them to apply!  Questions about…

  • U.S. Department of Education – May 2025 Newsletter

    Featured in this edition: Message from the Secretary Wins of the Month May Action Timeline A New Chapter in Department Grantmaking Priorities Cabinet Secretaries Mark Teacher Appreciation Week News from the States Homeroom Blog: The FAFSA® Form is Working—and Getting Better Every Day Submit Your Nomination by June 2! Click here to read the newsletter

  • Standout SEHD Fully Online Students for UCOMM Videos

    The UCOMM video team is working on a video series project in the coming weeks. They are looking for local, well-spoken, happy to appear on camera fully online students/recent alums who would dedicate a day to volunteer to be filmed and interviewed. These individuals will speak generally about why they enjoy taking online courses at…

  • SEHD End of Year Celebration

    As previously announced, the SEHD End of Year Celebration will be held on Friday, May 16th from 4-7 pm at Central Park in Park Hill/Northeast Denver. EVERYONE (we mean that!) is invited to attend – ALL SEHD faculty, staff, and students as well as your family and friends. The planning committee (cc’d here) is planning this celebration as…

  • U.S. Department of Education April 2025 Newsletter

    Featured in the April 2025 Newsletter: Message from the Secretary Wins of the Month April Action Timeline National Apprenticeship Day Mike Rowe Has a Message for Students News from the States Homeroom Blog: What the Department of Education Doesn’t Do Paying Back Your Student Loans Click here to access the full newsletter

  • Faculty contract payment elections can be made in the employee portal until July 11, 2025

    Dear faculty members: The contract selection period for the 2025-26 academic year is now open. If you would like to change your election from 9-pay-9 to 9-pay-12 or vice versa, the election form will be available in the UCD Access Portal from May 1 – July 11, 2025. If you do not choose a schedule, it will…

  • Funding Opportunities

    Funder: William T. Grant Foundation Title: Institutional Challenge Grant Important Dates: Opens 5/15/2025, Closes 9/15/2025 Award Amount:  $650,000 over 3 years Summary: The Institutional Challenge Grant supports university-based research institutes, schools, and centers in building sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. Funder: Spencer Foundation…

  • Research Grants on Reducing Inequality

    Funding opportunity by the William T Grant Foundation Deadline: May 7, August 6 (for Major Research Grants) and August 6 (Officer’s Research Grants) Focus: This program supports research to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people ages 5-25 in the United States.

  • EdPrepLab Policy Exchange: Research, Practice, and Policy in Dialogue

    Educator Preparation Laboratory  invites you to join us for our EdPrepLab Policy Exchange: Research, Practice, and Policy in Dialogue SEHD is a founding IHE in the Learning Policy Institute’s EdPrepLab along with numerous other leading colleges of education across the country.  This is an event happening the day before AERA begins and it is open…

  • Professors at Play Playposium 2025

    Professors at Play Playposium 2025 Are you ready to trade in your lecture hall for a mountain lodge? To gather with curious, creative educators who believe learning should be as joyful as it is transformative? Join us for the Professors at Play Playposium 2025 taking place June 23–26 at the University of Denver’s Kennedy Mountain Campus. We’re…