The College of Education and Human Development is pleased to announce that Mr. William McDonough is the 2017 College of Education and Human Development Gallery of Success inductee. Mr. McDonough is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Constellation, a Mutual Insurance holding company, comprised of medical liability insurers in the United States. The company is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN and currently has three operating insurance companies, Arkansas Mutual, MMIC and UMIA, and two non-insurance subsidiaries. Mr. McDonough has worked in the insurance industry for...
A $75,000 grant awarded to the College of Education and Human Development's Institute on Disabilities from the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation enabled the formation of Adaptive Design Greater Philadelphia. Adaptive Design Greater Philadelphia trains professionals to use creativity and innovation to help more families have access to adaptive equipment. They use inexpensive material along with enriching techniques to create sustainable cardboard adaptations. The project uses cardboard to reduce the cost of adaptive equipment from hundreds of dollars to less than 50 dollars...
A new paper published by the Wisconsin HOPE Lab, founded by Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of higher education policy and sociology, describes the first field experiments conducted on approaches to alleviating food and housing insecurity among college students. The three studies described in the paper were led by Goldrick Rab and assistant professors Dr. Katharine M Broton of the University of Iowa and Dr. Daphne C. Hernandez of the University Houston These studies also included the work of Dr. Sarah Cordes, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at Temple University...
Photography By: Gina BenignoTodd Price admits that when he neared graduation from high school in Bradford, Pennsylvania, a small town between Pittsburgh and Buffalo, New York, he had little sense of what he wanted to do—or where he wanted to go.It was a piece of mail from Temple that led him to visit Main Campus, some five hours from his hometown, and a tour that sold him. He applied to Temple and only Temple.By fall of 1994, he had moved to Philadelphia and started as a criminal justice major.A semester later, he was studying business."It was a little bit of a journey...
