coe-staff: The Weekly Vol. 6 #32

[Laura Lee McIntyre]

Dear COE Community,

Many of you saw the news yesterday of my imminent departure from the University of Oregon to become the Provost of Michigan State University. Yesterday my inbox was flooded with thoughtful notes and kind words (if I haven’t responded back to you, I promise I will!) and my cell phone was pinging all day long. Your collective reactions to the news were a reminder of the community we have here – we are a community who cares, appreciates, respects, and includes. I’m so grateful to have experienced this place, and all of you, for many years.

To say that my decision to leave is bittersweet is quite the understatement. Oregon – and our College of Education – has been my beloved home for 16 years. My husband and I have raised a family here, and while I’m a California Native and Bill is a New Yorker, we have two Oregonian kids who have never lived anywhere else. You can imagine that they (and we as a family) are experiencing all the possible emotions. Thank you for your support and your grace as we navigate this transition. My last day in the office will be June 25th. That day will be here before I know it, it will be after the term ends and we celebrate our students’ graduation and all of their collective accomplishments.

I have appreciated the opportunity to work with you and learn from you these past 16 years. Although I will be transitioning to another Big Ten school (whose mascot is not as cool as ours, but the school also wears the color green - convenient), you will always be in my heart. I credit the University of Oregon, and all the amazing people I’ve had a chance to learn from, for positioning me to continue my journey and pursue this next advancement. It’s another chapter of the book we’re all reading…the book that focuses on advancing our world through education, research, service, and equity.

To be continued…I’m not gone yet. 😉

Warmly,
Laura Lee


Updates and Upcoming
COE Faculty/Staff Meeting & Picnic Friday June 6
Our final faculty/staff meeting of the year – inclusive of COE awards – will be held on Friday June 6 from 2-3:30 pm in HEDCO 220. Following our meeting, we will be hosting our annual (and not to be missed) picnic from 4:00 –6:30 pm. More details to follow.

Undergraduate Research Symposium this Thursday May 22
Two graduating College of Education HEDCO Institute scholars, Samantha Martinez, BA, Educational Foundations and Hana Dussan, BA, Communication Disorders and Sciences will be presenting this Thursday, May 22, 2025 at the Undergraduate Research Symposium, Mind the Gap: Research Meets Practice session, from 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m., in the Swindells Room, EMU 230. We hope to see you all there!

Spotlights and Recognition
Ducks Give was a huge success for the College of Education!
We raised over $128,000 from 183 gifts, unlocking $94,000 of challenge gifts throughout the day. Once again, we were the highest academic unit across campus for number of gifts! A huge thank you to everyone who gave, shared, or cheered the COE on. Your participation helped push us over the finish line and truly made the difference in reaching our goal and further raise funds for COE students.
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Image description: A line of smiling students in regalia at commencement with text superimposed on top stating “Ducks Give 5/15/25” and “$128,233, 183 gifts”

Congratulations to Jennifer McGovney – Employee of the Year Award
Huge congratulations to EDST Business Manager, Jennifer McGovney, on receiving a University of Oregon Employee of the Year Award. Jennifer was honored yesterday for her leadership, problem-solving and people-centered orientation, equity, and inclusion as business manager. Thanks so much to Julie Heffernan and Dylan Lee for the nomination and to Chris Krabiel for your support of this nomination. Jennifer is so deserving of this recognition!
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Image description: Julie Heffernan (Director of UOTeach), Dylan Lee (Academic Program Coordinator), Jennifer McGovney (with award plaque), and Dean Laura Lee McIntyre

New $11 million NIH Center Grant funded
Congratulations to PIs Beth Stormshak and John Seeley and a team from the Prevention Science Institute, College of Education, and the Ballmer Institute on a new $11+ million center grant funded by the National Institute on Mental Health. This competitive center grant will focus on improving the lives of children and families in schools, and builds on our national expertise in this area.
The overall goal of our transdisciplinary center for Expanding Access and Accelerating Delivery of Interventions to Promote Mental Health for Underserved Adolescents (ACCESS) is to improve the mental health of underserved youth, families, and school communities through an optimized, multi-tiered focus on contextual, behavioral, and individual systems.  The focus will be testing effectiveness-implementation models of school-based prevention during the middle school years, a time when escalating rates of mental health distress in early adolescence culminate in mental health and behavioral disorders that can last a lifetime.

Graduate Spotlights
Learn more about Marquel Holiday<https://education.uoregon.edu/marquel-holiday-sapsikwala>, 2025 Sapsik'ʷałá Teacher Education program graduate, and Susan Coleman<https://education.uoregon.edu/susan-coleman-prevsci>, Prevention Science graduate.
HEDCO Institute Graduate Spotlights<https://education.uoregon.edu/hedco-institute-graduate-spotlights>
Learn more about Samantha Martinez, BA, 2023 HEDCO Institute Scholar, and Hana Dussan, BA, 2024 HEDCO Institute Scholar.

Reminders
COE Career Faculty | 2025-26 Promotion Info Session
Career faculty are invited to attend an information session about promotion on Friday, May 30th from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm in HEDCO 230T/Zoom (lunch provided!). Learn about the promotion process and timelines for AY 2025-26, elements of the career faculty promotion file, and resources for preparing your promotion materials. Although information will be targeted to COE career faculty who are eligible for promotion review in 2025-26, all career faculty are welcome to attend. Please RSVP via this link<https://oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bqtdGu81NWILo9M>.


Job Opportunities

  *   Assistant/Associate/Teaching Professor - Couples and Family Therapy<https://careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/535416/assistantassociateteaching-professor-couples-and-family-therapy>: Applications due June 9


Laura Lee McIntyre | Dean & Castle-McIntosh-Knight Professor
University of Oregon | College of Education
230 Hedco Education Building | Eugene, OR 97403-1215
llmcinty at uoregon.edu<mailto:email at uoregon.edu> |  https://education.uoregon.edu<https://education.uoregon.edu/>
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