COE Communications

COE Story Submission

Did you recently receive an honor or award? Do you know a student or alum who is doing great things? If you have interesting news or a story to share with the COE community, we want to hear about it! 

Currently Submission

Currently is a weekly newsletter for the employees of Portland State University, published by University Communications. News items, events and accolades should be sent to currently@pdx.edu. Your submissions (publications, presentations, grants, etc.) will be shared in the weekly PSU faculty newsletter and published online. Please copy eyussen@pdx.edu to be featured in COE communications as well.

Currently Submission Guidelines and Schedule

Below are some sample entries to illustrate preferred formatting. For reference, this is what the weekly web listing looks like.

• Mary Morningstar, Special Education faculty, received a $1,915,468 four-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education for a project titled “Transition Coalition Self-Study (TCSS): A Team-Based Professional Development to Improve Outcomes.”

• Special Education faculty Julie Esparza Brown and Amanda K. Sanford published a brief titled “Multi-Tiered System of Supports for Multilingual Learners: Using Culturally and Linguistically Aligned Practices,” on the National Center for Intensive Interventions’ website. 

• Madhu Narayanan, Education, Leadership, and Policy faculty, co-authored an article titled “#BlackatCMO: Challenging charter schools through youth Instagram counterstories,” published in the Education, Citizenship and Social Justice Journal. 

• Yasin Tunc, Curriculum and Instruction faculty, presented a talk titled “Secular Image(ina)ry In World Language Education: A critical analysis of cultural representation in World Language Teacher Practices and Curricular Materials” on Feb. 22 at UNC Chapel Hill at the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies (CMEIS).