Bowdoin’s Education Department presents the Education for the Common Good Award to a local educator in honor of their dedication to teaching, learning, and the broader community of educational professionals.
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Hispanic studies scholar co-leads an initiative with Bates College faculty to enhance language-learning using picture books in elementary schools. An NEH grant will fund a two-week seminar next summer for twenty-nine teachers.
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Meet three students who spent the summer helping others: providing legal assistance for immigrants at the border, offering benefits advice for those with limited English-speaking ability, and working in a middle school summer program.
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More than a year after graduation, Bowdoin College celebrated the 472 bachelor of arts degrees earned by the Class of 2020, in a ceremony on Saturday, August 14, 2021.
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Education professor Doris Santoro is helping Portland Public Schools attract and retain more educators of color. Diversity among school staff is important, she explains, especially when half the students are people of color.
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More than a dozen students undertake fully funded summer internships in the health care sector. Here we profile several of them.
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From Denmark to Brazil, from South Korea to Spain, these scholars have secured funding to head overseas to teach English or conduct research in the next academic year.
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Telingator has been awarded FAO Schwartz's two-year fellowship, which funds paid positions at nonprofits for recent college graduates "with leadership potential who are interested in careers in social change."
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Assistant Professor of Education Alison Riley Miller takes her students into a local elementary school classroom—albeit remotely—for their 3000-level advanced seminar in education research.
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Using the online tool Diverse Book Finder, Mohamed Kilani ’21 and Norell Sherman ’21 have purchased 250 new picture books about many different cultures and languages for a Brunswick elementary school.
Read moreStudents are able to coordinate studies in education with the liberal arts curriculum in a variety of ways—including research, community-engaged study, and teacher preparation.