Student Engagement
Introduction
Engagement through organization involvement and event participation helps shape the Mary Frances Early College of Education experience. Our student engagement initiatives offer a break from the classroom and opportunities to interact with peers who could become lifelong friends.
With over 20 official student organizations and an ongoing event calendar, there are endless ways for you to get involved.
Section 2
Latest News
- The Advanced Placement gender gap is narrowing but not across all subjects
The gender balance among the top scorers on Advanced Placement exams tends to track the gender balance among students taking those tests, according to a new study by associate professor Kadir Bahar.
- Amazing Student: Sydney Howell Grahl
Sydney Howell Grahl (B.S.Ed. ’25, M.Ed. ’27), a Double Dawg in the College’s communication sciences and disorders program, first gained interest in speech-language pathology while working as a paraprofessional in an elementary special education classroom.
- Learning by serving
Clinical associate professor Dave Chiesa has no shortage of stories about the service-learning course he developed to support linguistically diverse youth.
- Second annual GoalDawgs camp held at UGA
The camp and accompanying service-learning course brought together visually impaired student-athletes, Paralympians in goalball, and UGA students pursuing allied health professions.
- Associate professor named to UGA’s Faculty Innovation Fellows program
Sycarah Fisher, an associate professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, was recently named to the second cohort of UGA Faculty Innovation Fellows.
- College welcomes 16 new faculty members in 2026-27 academic year
Experts in aural rehabilitation, educational technologies, exercise physiology, and more join the College.