Rural Education Institute

April 2025

Spring 2025 Graduate: Shayna Cox

Name: Shayna Cox Major/Degree Program: Secondary English Education (undergraduate degree) Hometown/Current City: Snow Hill, NC Hobbies/interests: In my free time I enjoy creative writing, painting, and playing with my dog! What’s your favorite […]

4.30.2025

Spring 2025 Graduate: Chayla Miller

Name: Chayla Miller Major/Degree Program: Elementary Education with concentration in Mathematics (bachelor’s degree) Hometown/Current City: New Bern, NC Hobbies/interests: I love to thrift, listen to music, watch movies/shows and spend […]

4.30.2025

January 2024

Inaugural assembly of SRCUACS gathers in Elizabeth City

More than 80 public school advocates gathered in Elizabeth City to formulate a progressive blueprint for enhancing the educational system through collaborative partnerships and cross-sector programming during the inaugural assembly […]

1.26.2024

October 2022

Hispanic Heritage Month Spotlight: Dr. Laura Levi Altstaedter

Name: Laura Levi Altstaedter Hometown: Buenos Aires, Argentina Degree(s): Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, Second Language       Education, Virginia Tech                      MA in History, Latin American Studies, Virginia Tech                      Future Professoriate […]

10.14.2022

August 2022

COE welcomes new faculty and staff members this fall

The College of Education welcomed 17 new faculty and staff members for the 2022-2023 academic year. The new faculty and staff members include Sonya Small (Partnership Teach), Maya Hart (REI), […]

8.31.2022

College welcomes Johnson as inaugural Dail Distinguished Professor in Rural Education

The College of Education is pleased to welcome Dr. Jerry Johnson to East Carolina University as the inaugural Phoebe Moore Dail Distinguished Professor in Rural Education. “I had been aware […]

8.22.2022

December 2021

Crumb and Chambers receive award to establish equity, rural education research agenda

Dr. Loni Crumb of counselor education and Dr. Crystal Chambers of educational leadership received a prestigious award from the Spencer Foundation to help establish a research agenda speaking to equity […]

12.14.2021

November 2021

Faculty publish research, serve as guest editors

Faculty across the College of Education have recently published research in their discipline. Several of our faculty also served as guest editors of Theory & Practice in Rural Education, which […]

11.23.2021

March 2021

Continuing a Family Legacy

Following in her mother’s footsteps, May 8, 2020 graduate, Jasmine Garland McKinney states that she wants to carry on the legacy that her mother left behind as a counselor in […]

3.8.2021

ECU Graduate goes Rural

As a newcomer to NC, Elizabeth Japczyk Shuler did not have extensive experience in rural settings until she started working as a graduate assistant in REI. Though her major was in […]

3.8.2021