College of Education and Human Sciences

It takes a special kind of person to pursue a life of teaching. New Mexico’s 2018 Teacher of the Year, Ivonne Orozco, took the generosity of that pursuit one step further, choosing to remain in New Mexico and give back to the community that helped her...

Most of us can point to at least one: the teacher we will never forget. The “O Captain, my Captain…” who set the bar higher and opened us up to new worlds and ideas. For The University of New Mexico alumna Ivonne Orozco Acosta, that teacher was Mr....

Sen. Martin Heinrich announced that University of New Mexico student Carielle Bahe from the Navajo Nation will be his special guest at President Barack Obama's final State of the Union Address on Tuesday, Jan. 12. Bahe grew up in Crownpoint, N.M., and...

A new project at the University of New Mexico College of Education, designed to help transform the lives of students and their families by improving outcomes in community-based schools, is one of three new initiatives funded by the ECMC Foundation. Total...

Katherine Crawford-Garrett, assistant professor of Teacher Education, Educational Leadership and Policy in the College of Education at the University of New Mexico has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to New Zealand. Crawford-Garrett’s research ...

New Mexico is in dire need of qualified math and ...

Governor Susana Martinez joined education leaders from several colleges and universities on recently to announce key reforms aimed at supporting teacher and principal preparation programs. These new initiatives will raise standards to better prepare te

The Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) has accepted the University of New Mexico’s Department of Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy in the College of Education, as a new member of the CPED Consortium. CPED is a ...

A group of about 20 Native American students from Zuni (N.M.) High School spent a day at the University of New Mexico recently and got a feel for higher education in the process. The purpose of the field trip was to enhance the educational attainment ...

There was plenty of excitement amongst Native American students from Twin Buttes High School when the entire school took a field trip from Zuni, N.M. to the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque recently. For many, it was their first time to a major ...