The
University of San Francisco was recently named to the President’s 2012 Higher
Education Community Service Honor Roll for the sixth consecutive year.
The University
of San Francisco will welcome a number of national and local leaders to campus
as commencement speakers this week. It’s all part of the pomp and circumstance that
comes with celebrating a new class of graduates.
Dr. Shabnam Koirala-Azad joined the documentary's director on the post-screening discussion panel on February 3 at USC.
Panelists addressed the topic of the "achievement gap" as it effects disadvantaged students in urban schools.
Teacher Education Program students and staff continue to support Sacred Heart Primary School as part of the Project Learn Belize "Teacher Assistant Program," now in its fifth year.
USF's Patrick Camangian and Noah Borrero, with other Bay Area education leaders, held a public discussion Feb. 22 on the "achievement gap" in urban schools.
Presenters representing USF were Dr. Patricia Mitchell (Organization & Leadership program faculty) and School of Education students and graduates.
Dr. Rosita Galang was keynote speaker at the November 2011 celebration of the Filipino bilingual program at SFUSD Bessie Carmichael School.
Imbued with holiday cheer, not to mention a sense of pride, family and friends of the University of San Francisco’s most recent crop of graduates arrived on campus to celebrate the university’s fall commencement exercises.
The University of San
Francisco’s School of Education and its partners in the San Francisco Teacher
Residency (SFTR) program recently received $2.2 million to prepare San
Francisco teachers for hard-to-staff schools and high-needs subjects —
including math, science, and bilingual education.
Noah Borrero, assistant
professor of teacher education, and Dean Rader, associate professor of English,
each received the University of San Francisco’s annual faculty Distinguished
Research Award earlier this year. Borrero’s research focused on issues of equity in urban
education; Rader’s on Native American literature, art, and film.
Celebrating its fourth anniversary in October, Project Learn Belize,
sponsored by the School of Education, continues to provide USF
participants with educational/immersion experiences in Belize.
Students enrolled in courses in the Digital Media and Learning M.A. program began a year-long study to explore expectations and experiences of iPad usage.
The University of San Francisco is among the
country’s top 50 universities, according to Washington Monthly magazine.
The program's second successful year of collaboration between the USF School of Education, USF College of Arts and Sciences, and Changwon National University in Changwon, South Korea.
