Stories
Meet the faculty, staff, and students who are bringing WE CARE goals and strategies to life. Enjoy these stories of how we care.
Stanford Professor Lectures on Adolescent E-cigarette Use
New electronic cigarette products that include nicotine, THC, and other ingredients are infiltrating the market, including disposable e-cigarettes, e-cigarettes shaped like watches, highlighters, and other household products, and even “non-nicotine” e-cigarettes....
WE CARE Projects Continue Advancing Strategic Plan
The College of Education and Health Professions' WE CARE strategic plan is packed with practical goals and strategies to produce impactful research that improves people's lives, increase transformative learning opportunities for students and engage in meaningful...
College Celebrates its Service to Arkansas
The college hosted a Service to Arkansas Celebration in mid-December, highlighting the many ways faculty, staff, and outreach units have made a sustained and meaningful impact throughout the state. Service to Arkansas is a key priority of the college’s WE CARE...
Rounds of Applause Honor Faculty, Staff
WE CARE Rounds of Applause Create Culture of Recognition, Unify Faculty and Staff WE CARE Round of Applause recipients say these little awards are having a big impact on the college's culture. "It's unifying," said Michele Kilmer, an assistant professor in the...
Fall Dean’s Seminar Focuses on Care for the Carers
Too often, professionals in careers like healthcare and education invest so much time and energy into caring for others that they neglect to care for themselves. Ill-equipped with strategies to promote their own wellness, there's a serious need for education around...
Inaugural WE CARE-A-VAN Tour Across Arkansas
The college embarked on its inaugural WE CARE-A-VAN tour last week, enjoying a royal Razorback sendoff. Big Red was there to cheer the travel team on, and the Razorbug escorted the caravan off campus on Thursday, Sept. 28. Dean Kate Mamiseishvili and 16 faculty and...
WE CARE Rounds of Applause
"You've been caught caring!" This was the first line of a letter to Kay Brusca, who received the College of Education and Health Professions' WE CARE Round of Applause. Brusca, Dean Kate Mamiseishvili's executive assistant and chief of staff, is the first in the...
WE CARE+Wellness Program Supports ATC Fellows
An interdisciplinary faculty team developed a wellness program for Arkansas Teacher Corps fellows with funds from a WE CARE grant. Arkansas Teacher Corps is a partnership between the College of Education and Health Professions, the Walton Family Foundation, the...
Dean’s Seminar: Addictions
The College of Education and Health Professions initiated a Dean's Seminar about addictions the spring semester. Students enrolled in the class presented posters on May 4, in the Cordia Harrington Center for Excellence, classroom 215. "We want to extend an invitation...
Better Together: UAPB Visit
A P.R.I.D.E. of Lions and a band of Razorbacks listened and learned from one another on March 30-31 when 22 delegates from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff School of Education visited the Fayetteville campus. The College of Education and Health...
National Nurses Week
The Eleanor Mann School of Nursing celebrated its students and faculty during National Nurses Week. The American Nurses Association chose the "You Make A Difference" theme this year to encourage nurses, other healthcare professionals, employers, community leaders and...
Teaming Up to Support Kids (TUSK)
An interdisciplinary faculty team from the College of Education and Health Professions is hosting an online professional development series for early career professionals called "Teaming Up to Support Kids (TUSK)". The TUSK summer learning series focuses on...
A Caring College
Nearly 200 alumni, former deans, faculty, staff and friends of the College of Education and Health Professions gathered recently to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its name change. The college added "health professions" in 1997 to better reflect the diversity of its...
Middle Level Teacher Training
Twenty-four U of A preservice teachers in childhood education and special education recently attended a conference presented by the Arkansas Association of Middle Level Education in Hot Springs. Two faculty members in the Department of Curriculum and...
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