麻豆原创

Since 2006, 麻豆原创 has hired scores of new faculty members, conducted an historic Campaign, modernized its campus and dramatically increased student aid and research funding. Above all, the College has 鈥渃onnected the dots,鈥� uniting minds across disciplines to address society鈥檚 most pressing challenges.

 2006

• Alumna and the first woman to hold the job. A noted education policy scholar, Fuhrman was previously Dean and George & Diane Weiss Professor at the University of Pennsylvania鈥檚 Graduate School of Education. She founded and leads the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE).
• from the U.S. Depart颅ment of Education鈥檚 Institute of Education Sciences to establish the National Center for Postsecondary Research, which measures the effectiveness of programs to help students transition to college and master basic skills for a degree.

2007

• Provost and Dean Thomas James creates to support multidisciplinary faculty work.
• The new (OSCP), led by Nancy Streim, gives New York City schools a single point of access to 罢颁鈥檚 resources.
• 罢颁鈥檚 鈥�,鈥� about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, is distributed free to 30,000 teachers nationwide.
• declaring, 鈥淥ur legacy demands that, like our predecessors, we will assure that our work always addresses the most important questions. By emphasizing health and psychology along with education, we must represent the interdisciplinary approaches that educational problems inherently demand.鈥�

2008

• , previously General Counsel, becomes 罢颁鈥檚 inaugural Vice President for .
• of the (NAEd).
• assist Jordan鈥檚 Ministry of Education and Queen Rania Teacher Academy in redesigning the nation鈥檚 public school system.

2009

• S. Secretary of Education on Education & Policy, praising 麻豆原创 but calling for a 鈥渟ea change鈥� in most teacher preparation programs. , a 麻豆原创 alumna, serves on 罢颁鈥檚 President鈥檚 Advisory Council.
• The to support OSCP and Teachers College鈥檚 Partnership Schools Network (Harlem public schools serving students at risk of dropping out).

2010

• At , 麻豆原创 presents its inaugural President鈥檚 Medal of Excellence to Prime Minister Nahas Angula of Namibia (M.Ed. 鈥�79) and Ulysses Byas (M.A. 鈥�52), who fought for better resources for Jim Crow-era Southern black public schools.
• 麻豆原创 honors Trustee Joyce B. Cowin (M.A. 鈥�52) by .
• , a master鈥檚 degree program backed by a secured by faculty member A. Lin Goodwin, apprentices residents with experienced teachers at high-needs schools.
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鈥淥ur legacy will also be in global terms. Increasing education and skill levels makes the world more interdependent and competitive.鈥�
鈥� Susan Fuhrman, President, Teachers College

2011

• The College a new
• The convenes for professional development to improve opportunities for special-needs students.
• A new , funded by the federal Institute of Education Sciences and housed and led by 罢颁鈥檚 , examines long-term employment and earning outcomes for postsec颅ondary students.
• 罢颁鈥檚 launches a 45-credit, year-long E.
• Professor , Found颅ing Director of the 麻豆原创 Reading & Writing Project, co-authors , with Mary Ehrenworth and Christopher Lehman.

2012

• Teachers College and Singapore鈥檚 National Institute of Education establish a , part of a U.S.-Singapore educational collaboration.
• Psychologist Lisa Miller launches 罢颁鈥檚 , the nation鈥檚 first Ivy League master鈥檚 degree concentration in spirituality and psychology.
• and Miriam Baigorri, faculty members in Speech/Language Pathology, and President Fuhrman and Provost James . 麻豆原创 students annually provide free services for Ghanaians with communication disorders and development for Ghanaian professionals.
• Led by President Fuhrman and Deborah Ball, Dean of the School of Education at the University of Michigan (U-M), 麻豆原创 and, based at U-M, host a on connecting advances in learning research to teacher practice.
• The , launched in 2011, at Morningside Avenue and 127th Street.
• Science Education faculty member and rapper GZA launch the for New York City high school students.
• Faculty members, Celia Genishi and receive ato prepare dual certified teachers in early childhood education and early childhood special education.
• A report led by faculty member and cost parameters for providing the country鈥檚 neediest children with improved educational resources and wraparound services. Rebell debates his recommendations with New York Education Commissioner John King (Ed.D. 鈥�08) and other policymakers.
• The devotes a to faculty member 鈥檚 documentation of the disproportionate impact of health disparities on low-income minority youth鈥檚 academic achievement.
• 麻豆原创 sets records for applications, new student enrollment and selectivity. Applications are up 26 per颅cent since 2007.

2013

• 麻豆原创 launches a marking the 125th anniversary of its founding.
• The New-York Historical Society launches the exhibit 鈥淭eachers College: Pioneering Education through Innovation.鈥� On opening night, the College salutes member of its founding families: the Rockefellers, the Vanderbilts, the Macys, the Milbanks and the Dodges, including 麻豆原创 Board Co-Chair William Dodge Rueckert.
• unites the 麻豆原创 community worldwide.
• September 3rd, 2013 is proclaimed 鈥溌槎乖�创 Day鈥� by Mayor Bloomberg, and New York City co-names Manhattan鈥檚 West 120th Street as
• A gala evening at Harlem鈥檚 Apollo Theater concludes 罢颁鈥檚 125th anniversary celebration and launches Where the Future Comes First, the largest-ever campaign for a graduate school of education. 麻豆原创 honors Trustees James Comer and Laurie Tisch, GE Chairman Jeffrey Immelt and the wife-husband team of educator Susan Benedetto (M.A. 鈥�98) and singer Tony Bennett, and announces the Emanuel & Barbra Streisand Fund, the entertainer鈥檚 scholarship tribute to her late father, who attended 麻豆原创.
• (Raising Educational Achievement Coalition of Harlem), a partnership with six Harlem public schools.
• The, funded by Trustee Joyce B. Cowin, prepares 50 New York City high school teachers to incorporate financial education into their classes.

• Board Vice Chair. Half the gift, made outright, seeds new capital initiatives and establishes 罢颁鈥檚 , led by faculty member . The balance is a call to action to the Board to revamp 罢颁鈥檚 technology and infrastructure.
• The Tisch Food Center鈥檚 includes Newark Mayor and 麻豆原创 Trustee Cory Booker; New York City Council President Christine Quinn; Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer; and Kevin Concannon, U.S. Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services.
• 罢颁鈥檚 wins a $12 million U.S. Department of Education grant for its STEM Early College Expansion Partnership 鈥� 罢颁鈥檚 largest-ever federal grant and first through the federal Investing in Innovation (i3) program.

鈥淥ur alumni are the best representation of 麻豆原创 鈥� our ambassadors, our primary product. We are enormously proud of them.鈥�
鈥� Susan Fuhrman, President, Teachers College

2014

• 麻豆原创 mourns , 96, and , 77.
• 罢颁鈥檚 Art & Art Education program launches a .
• , a teacher prep program to improve student STEM achievement.
• A $10 million federal grant to 罢颁鈥檚 Community College Research Center creates the, which evaluates new remedial assessment, placement and instruction approaches.
• 麻豆原创 and the Tyler Clementi Foundation create 罢颁鈥檚 .
• A study by 麻豆原创 neuroscientist , published in , links poverty to children鈥檚 brain development. Nature also spotlights 麻豆原创 psychologist Peter Coleman鈥檚 to the study of intractable conflict and publishes findings by Lecturer Joey Lee and doctoral student Jason S. Wu that .
• Faculty members Lori Custodero and Hal Abeles launch the 麻豆原创 Teaching Artist Certificate program, supported by the Morse, Greenberg and Nelson families.

鈥溌槎乖�创 has historically played a key role in art education. So we felt a responsibility to grapple with the rapidly expanding influence of technology in every aspect of the arts.鈥�
鈥� Judith Burton, Macy Professor of Education

• A $1 million gift from David and Maureen O鈥機onnor establishes the , directed by clinical psychologist . The Center pairs groundbreaking research on human emotional resilience with clinical training of students to assist veterans and their families.
• The College launches a for educators, researchers, practitioners, administrators and activists.
• 麻豆原创 launches a 鈥� New York鈥檚 only culturally appropriate training program in delivering mental health services in Spanish to Latinas/os.
• , Shanna Smith Jaggars and Davis Jenkins publish .
• Led by, 麻豆原创 launches its first fully online doctoral program, which enables nurses with master鈥檚 degrees to become nurse educators in academic or staff settings; and an online certificate program in Nursing Education.
• The College its Center for African Education as .
• Led by Pearl Rock Kane, 罢颁鈥檚 , launches accelerated dual-degree programs in private school leader颅ship and business administration.
• 罢颁鈥檚 launches a in Teacher Edu颅cation 鈥� an emerging field focused on those who teach teachers and conduct related research.

鈥淭o create a climate of respect, 鈥渢he numbers come first. Because you have to be around people of other backgrounds to respect and understand them.鈥� 鈥� Susan Fuhrman, President, Teachers College

2016

• President Fuhrman launches a , citing the nation鈥檚 rising racial tensions and violence, polarized electorate, susceptibility to fake news and declining rates of voting and political participation.
• 麻豆原创 a four-day summer institute, . Led by education sociologist , Reimagining Education unites faculty in helping America鈥檚 predominantly white teaching force engage an increasingly diverse student population.
• The Middle States Commission on Higher Education emphatically and affirms its efforts to lead the shaping of 21st-century approaches to teaching and learning.
• The conferencehowcases 罢颁鈥檚 psychology research on the linking of science and practice, social justice/advocacy, local relevance/global reach, and learning and cognition.
• Jack Hyland, Co-Chair of 罢颁鈥檚 Board of Trustees, . Hyland鈥檚 29-year service on the Board spans two presidents and two record-setting campaigns.

• With the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, the Department of Counseling & Clinical Psychology announces an online continuing education training program for school counselors, focusing on college advisement.

• Former New York Giants foot- ball great Justin Tuck and his wife, Lauran, founders of Tuck鈥檚 R.U.S.H. for Literacy, . The Program is taught online to 126 Cowin Fellows, funded by Trustee Joyce B. Cowin.
• , a new journal edited by faculty member Noah D. Drezner, publishes its first issue.
• Faculty member hosts the 25th Anniversary international RO-MAN conference of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, on robot and human interactive communication.
• 罢颁鈥檚 program . Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad speaks on relations of power and equity in the academy.
• Faculty member authors .
• 麻豆原创 introduces a , leading to triple certification in initial childhood education, bilingual education and special education. The program is funded by New York City鈥檚 Depart颅ment of Education.
• , co-author of , receives the .
• 罢颁鈥檚 Civic Participation Project, created by professors, and , conducts a forum on the mass incarceration of U.S. minority youth.
• At the of 罢颁鈥檚 , educators who promote young people鈥檚 spiritual development and schools鈥� spiritual character form a new National
• Council on Spirituality and Educa颅tion, housed at 麻豆原创. .
• The publisher Heinemann introduces the 鈥� books for grades K-8 selected by the nation鈥檚 leading provider of literacy profes颅sional development for teachers.
• Early childhood education faculty member and Instructor Jessica Martell receive the for
• 罢颁鈥檚 Community College Re-search Center . U.S. Second Lady, a full-time community college professor, calls for contin颅uation of efforts to improve and expand access, graduation rates and job placements of community college students.
• A study by 罢颁鈥檚in the Journal of Edu颅cational Psychology finds that high school students improved their science grades by learning about the personal struggles and failed experiments of scientists such as .
• Science educator publishes .
• Psychologist re颅ceives the for .

鈥淲e鈥檙e interested in ensuring that education technology is effective 鈥攈elping the world design things that actually improve teaching and learning.鈥� 鈥� Susan Fuhrman, President, Teachers College

2017

• At 罢颁鈥檚 , themed 鈥淔rom Ferguson to Flint: Multicultural Competencies for Community-Based Trauma,鈥� 麻豆原创 psychologist receives the conference鈥檚 annual Janet E. Helms Award for contributions to the field.
• 罢颁鈥檚 Gottesman Libraries opens its new Smith Learning Theater funded by an $8 million grant from 麻豆原创 Trustee Camilla Smith (M.A. 鈥�72) and her husband, George.
• 麻豆原创 convenes 鈥溾��, a symposium on the future of public education.
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• In New York, the Guggenheim Museum mounts a, while the Studio Museum of Harlem exhibits works by Alma Thomas (M.A. 鈥�34). Georgia O鈥橩eeffe, a 麻豆原创 student prior to World War I, is the focus at the Tate Modern in London.
• President Fuhrman announces a college-wide initiative to improve the quality of education technology. 麻豆原创 launches an in which student teams, mentored by faculty and industry experts, develop research-based concepts and prototypes for educational tools.
• Psychology professor emeritus , a pioneer in the fields of conflict resolution, cooperative learning and social justice, passes away at 97.
• 麻豆原创 faculty members are elected to head three leading professional societies: ; Regina Cortina, as President-elect of the ; and Barbara Tversky, as President-elect of the.
• , Professor of Mathematics Education, is , (IUME) founded by her mentor, Professor Emeritus Edmund W. Gordon. At a forum co-sponsored by Save the Children, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Pearson Education company, 麻豆原创 faculty member outlining strategies to improve teaching for refugee children.

• The World Health Organization globally authored by 麻豆原创 psychologist Lena Verdeli, guiding non-special颅ists in using an evidence-based psychotherapy shown to alleviate debilitating depression in refugee populations.
• , an advanced placement seminar on the forced dispersal of African people worldwide, pilots in New York City and Huntsville, Alabama. The course was developed largely at 罢颁鈥檚 .
• and build a case aimed at persuad颅ing the U.S. Supreme Court to establish a Constitutional right to a quality education, based on the need for civic preparation.
• 罢颁鈥檚 Campaign, Where the Future Comes First, breaks the $300 million mark.

2018

• A paper published in Clinical Psychology Review by doctoral student Meaghan Mobbs and psychologist finds that military veterans are more of returning to civilian life than by post-traumatic stress syndrome. They call for a paradigm shift in research and treatment.
• directed by , Professor of Cognitive Studies, and presents its inaugural EPIC Achievement Award to businessman and philanthropist Dr. . EPIC, which will study failure across disciplines as a catalyst for innovation and success, is funded by ; the Alvin I. & Peggy S. Brown Family Charitable Foundation, Inc.; the ; and the .
• 麻豆原创 formally launches the , one of the nation鈥檚 largest, most prestigious and most competitive private teaching fellowship programs. Funded by a $10 million gift from the late Teachers College Trustee Emerita Abby M. O鈥橬eill, the Fellowships support outstanding 麻豆原创 students committed to teaching in New York City schools. Each Fellow receives $40,000 in tuition assistance.
• Teacher educator and researcher is named the next , effective September 1, succeeding Pearl Rock Kane, who has led the Center since 1980.

鈥淚UME ... was one of the very first university initiatives of its kind to address issues in urban education and advocate for underserved people. That focus, created by Dr. Gordon, was such an important innovation, and we want to carry it forward into the 21st century 鈥� especially in the current political climate.鈥�
鈥� Erica Walker, Professor of Mathematics Education

• Pearl Rock Kane receives .
• , 罢颁鈥檚 George & Abby O鈥橬eill Professor of Economics & Education, is , beginning his duties on July 1st. Bailey founded 罢颁鈥檚 .

罢颁鈥檚 Bilingual Latina/o Mental Health Concentration prepares bicultural/bilingual counselors and counseling psychologists to serve Latina/o clients in Spanish. It is the only such program in the New York area and one of just a handful in the nation. From left: Katherine Ramirez, Mariel Buque, Pierluigi Bellini and Danisha Baro, students in 罢颁鈥檚 Latina/o Mental Health concentration.

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