Each year, the School of Education honors it most exceptional students at Honors Convocation. Students, faculty, and staff of the school come together to announce awards and scholarships across multiple areas of education.

Awards include:

Erica Halpern Teacher Leadership Award

This award is dedicated to Erica Halpern, a Drexel School of Education student who exemplified the exceptional passion and commitment to service education students strive for. Though her life was tragically cut short, this award is given yearly to students who show those same principles that defined Erica to honor her legacy.

Virginia C. Miller Scholarship

This scholarship provides aid every year to a deserving student studying education, based on academic achievement.

SoE Faculty and Staff Student Scholarship

The Faculty and Staff Scholarship is funded entirely from the School of Education’s own staff, every year giving out a substantial scholarship to a student committed to their career in education. The award serves as a shining example of the faculty’s dedication to the future of their students.

Michel Miller Excellence in Special Education Award

The Michel Miller award was created to reward the service of students dedicating their time at Drexel to the field of Special Education. This memorial award is in honor of Drexel professor Michel Miller, going to scholars who follow in her legacy of positive action towards special education services.

Fredericka K. Reisman Award for Outstanding Graduate Work in Creativity

This honor goes to a graduate student who applied a uniquely creative approach to their research and theoretical work when developing an innovative term capstone project. These projects are completed either during a Creativity and Innovation program, or as part of their master’s degree capstone project.

Dr. Ken Mawritz Memorial Award

Dr. Ken Mawritz was a Clinical Professor in the SoE. The award is dedicated to the compassion and joy for teaching and working with students that Dr. Mawritz brought everyday to his profession, students, and colleagues. It goes to a student who exemplifies those same principles in their work during their time at Drexel.

Dr. Terrence Daniels Memorial Award

Named in honor of Dr. Terrence Daniels, a SoE doctorate alumni who focused his career on educational equality, this award is a collaboration between the Dean’s Office and Education Doctorate students. It goes to a student who demonstrates a drive for equity and social justice, striving to disrupt systemic problems within schooling.

Capstone Experience Award

Capstone Experience awards recognize students who graduated (or are graduating) this year, for capstone projects they completed for their master’s degree. The recipients created projects that showed deep understanding and application of research in their particular fields.

Teacher Education Capstone and Portfolio Awards

The Teacher Education Capstone and Portfolio Awards go to undergraduate and graduate students in a teacher preparation program and have gone above and beyond in their field experiences, whether in the creation of a portfolio or in their school placement.

School of Education Civic Engagement Award

The Civic Engagement Award is given out to a student exemplifying Drexel’s goal to become the most civically engaged school in the nation.

EdD Alumni Impact Award

This honor recognizes an EdD alumnus who has made significant contributions in raising awareness or addressing a problem of practice in their respective fields.

EdD Alumni Mentoring and Coaching Award

The Alumni Mentoring and Coaching Award recognizes an EdD alumnus who remained involved with the school by supporting an EdD student in their efforts to complete their doctoral studies.

Friend of Education Award

The Friend of Education Award is given to a public figure who has maintained a positive impact on the education systems throughout their work.

Student Activities Recognition

The Student Activities Recognition honors the work that SoE scholars are pursuing outside the classroom, through community service, fellowship with other majors, and volunteerism.

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