Education Stories & News

Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts Center

UNI’s Kaleidoscope series announces spring 2022 season

The Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts Center is excited to announce its Kaleidoscope series is back with live, in-person shows for the spring 2022 season.

UNI alum Tanner Roos

UNI alum has award-winning approach to physical education

Tanner Roos, UNI alum and elementary physical education teacher, has won awards for his forward-thinking approach to physical education, but fitness has been a lifelong love for the Denison native. Today, he shares his passion for an engaging, inclusive form of PE with his Linn Grove Elementary classroom in Marion.
UNI campus

A new online degree option for postsecondary education

A new online option for the Master of Arts (MA) degree in postsecondary education: student affairs will deliver the same high-quality curriculum taught by the same dedicated faculty, with the added flexibility of an online format.  

United Way, UNI Center for Educational Transformation and Waterloo Schools partner on trauma-informed project

The everyday demands of school life can be difficult for many students – but some carry more than a backpack full of books when they show up for class each day. 

UNI campus

Statewide teacher preparation conference at UNI to focus on STEM

Teacher preparation intersects with STEM education at the 2021 Pre-Service Teachers STEM Conference planned as a virtual event on April 9 and 10.

Leydi Eagan and her family

Finding her voice at UNI

For a time when she was 11 years old, Leydi Eagan stopped talking. Her childhood dream of being adopted had come true, but traveling 2,000 miles from an orphanage in Colombia to live with her new family in Iowa turned out to be the easy part. 

2+2 education program

Landmark UNI and DMACC elementary education program celebrates 25th year

The University of Northern Iowa and DMACC 2+2 Elementary Education Program is celebrating its 25th anniversary with the largest student class in its history, part of a successful partnership that is expanding in Des Moines and beyond. 

UNI alumna Jennifer Stimpson.

Reimagining teaching

UNI alumna Jennifer Stimpson, EdD., has taught a girls’ leadership class in Uganda while living with no Wi-Fi; took a star turn in Oprah’s “O” magazine being recognized as a STEM visionary, won a $10,000 inspiration grant from former basketball superstar Michael Jordan’s Fundamentals Grant Program, and now serves as an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Congressional Fellow in Washington, D.C.

2+2 education program

Landmark distance education program celebrates 25th anniversary

Just over 25 years ago, the Des Moines Area Community College reached out to the University of Northern Iowa with a problem: Rural areas of Western Iowa were having trouble attracting quality teaching candidates.

The solution to this issue is still flourishing today - the 2+2 Elementary Education Program, now the longest-running partnership between a university and community college in the state. The program is celebrating its 25th anniversary with the largest student class in its history.

Elementary Education Program

Hampton senior selected for 2021 Strottman Scholarship

UNI NEWS SERVICES - Rebekah (Bekah) Craighton, a senior at Hampton Dumont High School in Hampton, Iowa, has been awarded the Sally Gearhart Strottman Memorial Scholarship in Elementary Education at the University of Northern Iowa. The UNI College of Education awards this scholarship to an incoming freshman from Northeast Iowa who will pursue a degree in elementary education.