By Armando Jose Torres Before arriving at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) for the first time, I was living and working at UC Santa Barbara as an admissions counselor. I traveled throughout central and southern California supporting and advising high school students, with a particular focus on first-generation Latinx youth and their families as […]
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Inside EPOL’s New Sustainability Education Certificate: Student Perspectives
By Bryan Lake, Logan Pender, and Carine Verschueren The Sustainability Education Certificate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is a graduate-level program designed for educators, researchers, and professionals seeking to better understand and respond to today’s environmental and social challenges. Offered fully online through EPOL, the certificate explores sustainability not only as an environmental issue, […]
Celebrating Aigul Rakisheva’s Doctoral Journey in EPOL
Below, recent doctoral graduate Aigul Rakisheva reflects on her time and achievement at the College of Education. What is your dissertation about, and what motivated you to pursue this topic? Aigul: My dissertation examines how sustainability education (SE) training influences pre-service teachers’ readiness to teach about sustainability and broader socio-ecological issues. A particularly meaningful part […]