Numerous graduate students and faculty at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities' Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development received major awards at the 2025 annual conference of the Association of Human Resource Development.
Ana Carolina Rodriguez, a 2024 PhD graduate at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities' Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, received the Dissertation of the Year Award from the Academy of Human Resource Development.
Richard Roman and Madeline Rowe, PhD Candidates in the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities' Higher Education program presented research on public trust in higher education at the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) Annual Conference.
The Center of Excellence for Educational Equity Research (CEEER) at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has named OLPD Assistant Professor Darrius Stanley as a Faculty Research Fellow for 2025.
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.