News and Events

A team including Nicole McNeil, a professor of psychology and the director of the Education, Schooling, and Society program at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded a four-year, $2 million grant to leverage technology to improve children’s understanding of mathematical equivalence. Funded...

Welcome to ESS Office Hours! In this first episode, Education, Schooling, and Society Professor Mike Macaluso sits down with senior neuroscience majors Devin Diggs and Matthew Nguyen to discuss why they chose ESS as a minor and how their ESS experiences will help them in their future endeavors...

ESS student Quinn McKenna is a Notre Dame junior who participated in the Center for Social Concerns' Global Living Learning Community (GLLC) during the summer of 2021. She was featured on the CSC's "Sign of the Times" podcast to talk about her experience. This program allowed International Summer...

Nicole McNeil, a professor of psychology, the Alliance for Catholic Education College Professor, and director of the Education, Schooling, Society (ESS) minor in the Institute for Educational Initiatives, has been awarded the 2021 Faculty Award by the University of Notre Dame. The Faculty Award...

Dr. Andrea Christensen —a Fellow within the Institute for Educational Initiatives and the director of undergraduate studies for Education, Schooling, and Society —has received a Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Dr. Christensen is one of just twenty-one...

The University of Notre Dame’s Academic Council voted unanimously this week to make Education, Schooling, and Society (ESS) a supplementary major, allowing students to take ESS courses and complement their primary major in a more intensive way. ESS had previously been a 15-credit minor exploring the...