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Congratulations to Professor Anna Haskins on winning the 2021 William Julius Wilson Early Career Award. The award is bestowed by the Inequality, Poverty, & Mobility Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA) in recognition of Anna's excellent contributions to the study of inequality. Her...

Faculty members from the Institute for Educational Initiatives were recognized by Dr. Marie Lynn Miranda, the Charles and Jill Fischer Provost at the University of Notre Dame, for milestones, promotions, and awards. Awards Dr. Nicole McNeil —a professor of psychology, the Alliance for Catholic...

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...

Mark Berends , a professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame who currently directs the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO) and serves as an associate vice president for research, has been appointed director of the University’s Institute for Educational Initiatives...