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Mentoring the Teachers of Tomorrow

April 20, 2021
Wilmington University is part of a new state collaborative that will develop and pilot an approach to recruiting, selecting, training and retaining highly effective mentor teachers who will help to prepare future educators. Participants include two Delaware school districts—Colonial and Red Clay—and five educator preparation programs: Wilmington University, Delaware State University…
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A New Adjunct Coordinator in the College of Education

February 18, 2021
Dr. Heather Horowitz is now the adjunct program coordinator for the M.Ed. in Higher Education, a degree program first offered in 2019. She was a member of the team of five Wilmington University doctoral students who worked with Dr. Nina Buchanan, chair of the Higher…
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Alumna Brings Experience as Graduate Program Coordinator

December 9, 2020
Dr. Jennifer Palmer, a longtime educator and administrator who earned her doctorate at Wilmington University, has returned as an adjunct graduate program coordinator in the College of Education. She earned her EdD in Education Leadership and Innovation in 2012, when she also was presented with the EdD Academic Achievement Award and the Audrey K. Doberstein Leadership Award. As adjunct coordinator…
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Serving the Educational Community 

October 21, 2020
Faculty and staff in the College of Education are sharing their time and expertise to benefit the educational community throughout the state. Nina Buchanan, associate professor, was recently named chair of the Wilmington branch of the Scholarship Committee of the American…
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Once a Student, Now a Mentor

August 12, 2020
Frank Hanson, who emigrated to the United States from the African nation of Ghana, has been a respected educator in Delaware for 10 years and recently became a mentor to Promise Grant recipients at Wilmington University. In keeping with WilmU’s commitment to accessible education, the Promise Grant program is devoted to recruiting minority males who want to become teachers and provides them with…
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College of Education Adds Two

June 3, 2020
The College of Education is growing, adding two new members to its team. Nicole Garrity is the undergraduate program coordinator. She worked as a school psychologist in San Diego and Wilmington before moving to work in the Sussex County Consortium. Garrity has been teaching…
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New Pathways in Education Leadership

March 26, 2020
Candidates for an Ed.D. in Education Leadership now have three new pathways to the doctorate: Teacher Leadership, Building Level Leadership, and District Level Leadership. The new program is modeled after an approach derived from the work of the Carnegie Project on the…
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12 WilmU Alumni Among Top 20 Teachers

January 9, 2020
The State of Delaware has honored 20 District Teachers of the Year, 12 of whom earned degrees at Wilmington University. Each received $2,000 at an award ceremony on Oct. 15 at Dover Downs, where they were congratulated by Governor John Carney, Senator Tom Carper and state education officials. Photo: delaware.gov One of the honorees, Laura Burke, a third-grade teacher in Seaford, is also a WilmU…
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