The Student Development Committee is comprised of representatives from all SOE program areas. This group helps shape school-level town halls, celebrations of excellence, and other events related to professional development. Members meet monthly. Each representative serves a minimum of one academic year. In early fall, any open seats are made known to the program chair and a request for volunteers is extended.

Golden Apple Scholars are comprised of students in the teaching & learning undergraduate program who have received tuition scholarship awards from the Illinois-based organization. The Golden Apple program focuses on supporting Illinois high-school students through scholarship funding, mentoring,, and professional development.

The Scholars meet periodically throughout the academic year with the Assistant Dean of Student Academic Affairs and Golden Apple representatives. For information on Golden Apple Scholarships, visit their website.

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The Doctoral Advisory Committee (DAC) provides doctoral students a safe space (no faculty except when invited) to bond, to generate questions, and to engage in peer mentoring.

The Higher Education Student Association (HESA) is the student-led programming, outreach and advocacy organization for students, alumni, and friends of the Higher Education program. We support the holistic development and serve as the collective voice representing the needs of higher education students at Loyola.

 

The Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs is a student-run, open-access journal housed at the School of Education that provides a venue for international, interdisciplinary scholarship that examines higher education and student affairs through the explicit use of critical frameworks. Students are invited to read published work or submit their own work for publication.

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The Loyola Association of School Psychology (LASP) is a student-run organization focused on creating community. Our mission is to increase visibility of school psychology as a career choice. The students work together to identify ways they can serve Chicago area children in facilitating access and equity.

 

The Student Affiliates of School Psychology (SASP) is a student organization with a similar mission as LASP for our doctoral students.

 

The School Psychology Journal Club is a student-initiated and led group that holds regularly scheduled gatherings ( 2 x per month] open to students and faculty to read and discuss current journal articles on issues important to the development of the science practitioner.

The LUC Future Teachers Club/Illinois Education Association engages teacher preparation students in professional development, social networking, and service projects with local schools. Service projects have included building playgrounds at local schools and K-12 student engagement. Loyola’s future teachers are always a strong presence at the annual IEA conference and have won several grants to help support family literacy programs in the Lake Shore Campus community. 

The School of Education participates in the Alpha Sigma Nu (ASN) Honor Society. Each Spring, new candidates are invited to participate in ASN, the national society of Jesuit College and University throughout the world. Candidates are students from across the University who excel in scholarship, loyalty and service, and promote Ignatian values for life. The Induction ceremony takes place the following October in Madonna Della Strada Chapel on the Lake Shore campus.  

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Each year, one School of Education Student is nominated for the President’s Medallion. The representative for the School Of Education embodies Leadership, scholarship, and service, bringing the spirit of the Jesuit mission to life. The medallion is presented at a formal event each Fall which is followed by the President’s Ball.

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• Maeve Donlin (Middle Grade Education)
• Erica Whitmore (Educational Leadership)
• Jonathan Okstad (Educational Leadership)
• Nathan Petithomme (Early Childhood Special Education)

All School Of Education students are eligible to apply for Student Excellence awards. This annual event is sponsored by the SOE’s Student Development Committee. Awards are made each Spring term for excellence in research, teaching, and service. 

The School of Education Dean's List will be awarded each term based on the following criteria:

• Students must earn a combined GPA for the term of 3.5 or above.
• Students must have earned 12 or more credits for the term, graded on a letter scale; grades of "P" (Pass) are not included.
• Students with an unresolved "Incomplete" grade for the term are not eligible until the Incomplete is resolved. At that time, their GPA for the term will be recalculated. If they earn a 3.5 or higher for the term, the list will be updated to reflect their inclusion.

Congratulations to the 187 students on the list for the 2024 fall semester:

 

Elementary Education

Zina Abood

Emily Bafia

Jake Bartilad

Alishba Basit

Nico Bedrejo

Maggie Blaes

Z Blythe

Emma Bogdanov

Zoey Bohmer

Bree Borum

Aidan Lee Bostelman

Beth Breman

Sofia Brown

Abby Burrows

Jane Campbell

Kayla Carizey

Zoe Chapman

Emily Choi

Natalie Christine

Sophie Concannon

Brenna Costin

Ellie DeBock

Bella Donato

Shaylee Dowell

Madison Duberstein

Megan Dunn

Sydney Egan-Fowler

Megan Evans

Luella Everman

Ella Fernandez

Mia Finley

Priya Gangasingh

Lizette Garcia

Lucy Hamilton

Lily Hankes

Aileen Hernandez

Jessie Jahn

Aniqa Jewa

Kirsten Jose

Sophia Jozefczyk

Sara Kadic

Callie Mae Kilduff

Hannah Mae Knieriemen

Anna Kougias

Daphne Kraushaar

Aspyn Lawrence

Dina Limperatos

Emily Linden

Julia Lis

Connor Lyons

Emma Marfia

Chandler McCree

Katherine McKeag

Amira Mehmeti

Jordyn Michelson

Ashtyn Mitchell

Gaby Myers

Kelsey Nardi

Samantha Pecsar

Rebecca Phillips

Claire Piccirilli

Mal Pleines

Amelia Potempa

Zara Quraishi

Audrey Rajski

Kaitlin Randolph

Morgan Reeb

Ella Rorabaugh

Victoria Rupert

Abby Schmidt

Alyssa Schneider

Nora Schumacher

Audrey Selander

Olivia Shah

Emily Spielbauer

Lynn Tran

Sophia Vanneste

Grace Velez

Angeline Ventula

Alison Wahlberg

 

Secondary Education

Sarah Baudler

Shailee Bhatt

Amber Braggs

Ben Brania

Maevi Broadrick

Finneas Bujdei

Zehria Burke

Maximilian Busch

Emma Byars

Angelina Caruso

Audrey Cenatiempo

Jenna Daube

Oliver Detering

Isaiah Dingus

Nate Eckman

Alice Mae Ehresman

Katie Emery

Robert Ernst

Esteban Garcia

Katie Glazbrook

Sabrina Godinho dos Santos

Daniella Gonyoe

Dakota Hagen

Annelise Hannon

Delaney Harris

Essie Harvey

Abby Hecht

Karolina Irla

Nikolas Karadimas

Isabella Del Carmen Kowalczyk

Maisha Lane

Elliot Lechocki

Logan Levine

Sean Lifka

Grace Lueken

Sirisha Mandava

Amanda McGreal

Aidan Melley

Zachary Melo

Rubi Mendez

Xander Mitchell

Lucy Myerscough

Margot Nalli

Lucy Neal

Grace Neitzke

Grant Olson

Lauren Pencyla

Alina Maria Pomykala

Cira Racco

Chloe Renteria

Franklin Richardson

Isabelle Rudolphi

Jack Schormann

Ally Seiller

Morgan Stuckey

Andrew Takahashi

Daniel Oko Tetteh

Serena Troshynski

Atziri Valbuena

Matt Westmeyer

Gabriella Jo Wingard

Stephen Woo

Sydney Wright

 

Special Education

Morgan Hinkle

Nevaeh Garcia

Naja Sulejman

Abigail Dyson

Kailyn Loch

Julianna LeVecke

Elizabeth Young

Mia Morrill

Steven Flanagan

Evelyn Wilke

 

Early Childhood Special Education

Skylar Baker

Kat Casas

Amilia Estrada

Megan Flanagan

Logan Flores

Sofia Guerrero

Maya Hamilton

Maggie Hillis

Grace Jaroszewski

Christine Velia Jones

Katie Kulevich

Callie Nichols

Karah Preston

Alejandra Sanchez

Becca Smith

Emma Taylor

 

Bilingual/Bicultural Education

Colette Benoit

Leslie Clavijo

Rafa Delgado

Ella Hummel

Henrik Lewis

Julia Maina

Bella Romero

 

Middle Grades Education

Ayman Ahmed

KaiQi Chen

Alexandra Seffernick de Souza

Gabe Mandal

Andres Ortiz

Maggie Parada

Mia Pyle

Kaitlyn Claire Rio

Eva Sias

Indigo TenEyck

Additionally, undergraduate students at the School of Education are eligible for laudatory status (awarded to eligible students upon completion of the program), and program area awards which are determined by teaching & learning faculty and awarded during the Undergraduate Honor’s Celebration in the days before commencement. The Honor’s Celebration includes all graduating Honor’s program students as well as those who have earned laudatory status.