Amy Pickard is the 2024 recipient of the Arthur (Jack) Payne Crabtree Memorial Award from the American Association of Adult and Continuing Education. The award, worth $13,000, will support her partnership with the Indiana Department of Workforce Development to improve adult educator preparation across the state.
Professor Christopher Lubienski has been named to the list of the 2025 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings from Education Week. The list ranks 200 university-based scholars in the United States who did the most last year to shape educational practice and policy.
Gayle Buck has been named the next Martha Lea and Bill Armstrong Chair for Teacher Education. Buck is currently the Academic Director of P-12 Engagement and Faculty Fellow of P-12 School Engagement at the IU School of Education.
Students in the Global Gateway for Teachers program can gain their student teaching experience with a teaching placement in the Navajo Nation, an assignment that graduates call influential and inspiring.
Meredith Park Rogers has been selected to receive the Outstanding Mentor award from the Association for Science Teacher Education, an international organization that promotes scholarship, collaboration, and innovation in science teacher education, and seeks to advance policy and practice that contributes to more just and equitable outcomes for teachers of science.
Robert Q. Berry III has been appointed dean of the Indiana University Bloomington School of Education, effective April 1, 2025. Berry will join IU from the University of Arizona, where he is currently the dean and Paul L. Lindsey and Kathy J. Alexander chair in the College of Education. He succeeds Anastasia “Stacy” Morrone, who has served as dean since July 2021.
According to the United Nations, Indigenous people make up more than 5,000 distinct groups and speak more than 4,000 of the world’s estimated 7,000 languages. Indiana University Bloomington hosted more than 100 representatives from several of those global Indigenous groups during the inaugural Conference on Global Indigenous Studies.
Within the sports psychology team at IU Athletics, Eli Friedman primarily focuses on athletes with the men’s basketball team, women’s basketball team and wrestling team, where he addresses the intersection of mental health and performance, both at the individual and team levels.
Ava Lentz is a senior at the IU School of Education majoring in counseling and student services. She recently shared a day in her life on Instagram, where she discussed what she’s involved in at IU, including the Dean’s Advisory Council.
Jillian Kinzie, Associate Director of the National Survey of Student Engagement, has been honored with an inaugural award recognizing Innovative Leadership for High-Impact Practices by the organizers of the Indiana University Assessment Institute.
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