Outstanding Graduate

College opportunities, not to mention graduate studies, were rare in the small Southern African country of Zimbabwe where Tafadzwa Tivaringe grew up. With unyielding support from his parents, his community, and mentors, Tivaringe, or “Taphy” as he

Will Lindsay comes from a long line of educators and ̽����Ƶ alumni. Naturally, he followed in the footsteps of his family members and became a high school science teacher in Colorado Springs and later Denver after graduating from Colorado

The need to sustain the Comanche language and culture has always been at the heart of Justin Boos’ 20-plus-year career working with and for Native American tribal members. Forever focused on education equity, Boos has been a director for

Rachel Emmitt has always known that she wanted to become a teacher, in part, thanks to the amazing elementary teachers she had in school. When it came time for her to apply to undergraduate programs, ̽����Ƶ’s elementary education program stood

Erica Bednar traveled the world and thousands of miles before returning to ̽����Ƶ and her hometown to earn her Master’s degree in literacy studies education from the School of Education. A ̽����Ƶ Buff through and through,

For Sara Swain, the old adage is true: mom knows best.  Swain came to ̽����Ƶ originally majoring elementary education after working with the kindergarteners in her mother’s classroom at her childhood elementary school in