SU’s Board of Trustees recently conferred emerita status on the beloved associate professor of education, who will be retiring after 28 years with the university.
Four Southwestern students relate their experiences as community-engaged learning associates with nonprofit organizations during the summer of 2020.
The well-loved SU associate professor reflects on what she finds inspiring and rewarding as a career educator of educators.
Senior Abigail Luna is the 20th recipient from SU to earn the Texas Association of School Personnel Administrators scholarship.
Quincy Holland ’19 is the nineteenth recipient from SU to earn the Texas Association of School Personnel Administrators
During the spring semester of my senior year, I took the community-engaged learning course “Survey of Exceptionalities” with Dr. Alicia Moore, which examined special education, the stigmas that surround it, and the policy that influences it. Students got to choose the location that they wanted to volunteer with. Most chose to be in a special education classroom within local elementary schools, but I chose to spend my time with the citizens of BiG: Brookwood in Georgetown, “a community where adults with intellectual challenges are celebrated and empowered by engaging their talents in meaningful work.”
Whether she’s teaching second graders about Mozart or showing fourth graders the correct way to hold a recorder, Kotzur approaches each day with positivity, determination and joy.
Marc Erck embodies a love of music and a passion for teaching. His influence reverberates throughout the world, in the lives of the many students he has inspired, from middle school choir students in Austin to adult singers in Cameroon.
Four Southwestern students have been selected to receive Hatton W. Sumners Scholarships beginning in fall 2017.
Senior Clairisse Cheniae, an elementary education major with a passion for science and nature, earned Southwestern’s 17th consecutive scholarship for a pre-service teacher from the Texas Association of School Personnel Administrators (TASPA).
Relda Comer hopes to become a high school teacher specializing in math and special education
Award spotlights students who excel in their internships as well as in the classroom and the community