News and Events

Patrick Graff, a fourth-year PhD student in the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO) and Burns Fellow in the Program for Interdisciplinary Education Research (PIER) , has been chosen as one of 12 students in the first cohort of the NDIAS-Graduate School Ph.D. Fellowship Program. The...

Dr. Pam Grossman, the Dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, visited the Institute for Educational Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame on Thursday, March 4, 2020, to deliver a talk entitled, "Exploring Core Practices in Teacher Education".

Mark Berends, the director of the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Research on Educational Opportunity and a professor of sociology, has been elected to the National Academy of Education. The Academy advances high-quality research that improves education quality and practice. Members are...

Don Shalvey, the Deputy Director of US Programs for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, visited campus on Friday, October 11, 2019 for "Building Bridges, Empowering Educators, and Naming That Tune: A Conversation with an Education Reform Warrior"

On Monday, October 7th, Dr. Ashley Rogers Berner, the Deputy Director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy, visited the University of Notre Dame to present the 2019 Notre Dame Lecture on Education Policy. Her talk was entitled, "Education Pluralism: What It Is, and Why It Matters".

On Monday, September 23, 2019, Dr. Jeremy Fiel, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona, delivered the lecture "Can Democratizing Educational Opportunities Reduce School Segregation?" in Jenkins-Nanovic Hall.

Dr. Na'ilah Suad Nasir, President of the Spencer Foundation, presented "Racial Inequality & Schooling: Providing Opportunities for Access & Indentity in a Changing Educational Landscape" for the ND PIER Colloquium and CREO Seminar on Friday, May 3, 2019. Na'ilah Suad Nasir is the sixth President of...