Associate Professor and Associate Department Chair Andrew Furco recently participated in a session with Pope Francis, which focused on examining the role of service-learning to build positive human relationships and a more peaceful world.
OLPD Assistant Professor John LaVelle and Evaluation Studies doctoral candidate Paida Chikate were honored with the American Evaluation Association’s Presidential Award at AEA 2024 in Portland, OR.
Darrius Stanley, Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities' Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development has been awarded the College of Education Alumni Award for Michigan State University on October 2024.
Gresham Collom is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education in the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities' Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development.
Sheetal Digari and Mary O'Brien McAdaragh, PhD students in programs at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities' Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, were awarded prestigious Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships for 2024-25.
Madeline Rowe and Kyle Quagliana, PhD Students in Higher Education at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, were named recipients of an NCAA graduate student research grant for their project examining graduate transfer student-athlete experiences.
Faculty, staff, students, and alumni of the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development (OLPD) are mourning the loss of their colleague and mentor David R. Johnson.
Professor Joan DeJaeghere has been named interim chair of the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development (OLPD) in the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD).
Professors Elizabeth Sumida-Huaman and Bhaskar Upadhyay are PI and Co-PI, respectively, for a team recently awarded a Spencer Foundation Vision grant to research ways to transform STEM graduate education for Indigenous students.
Joshua Collins, Associate Professor of Human Resource Development, co-authored Human resource development: Critical perspectives and practices, which received the 2023 R. Wayne Pace Book of the Year Award from AHRD.
