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April 2020

School of Education Alumnus Spotlight: Stuart Grauer '89 (EdD), Leadership StudiesFriday, April 17, 2020
Tell us about your School of Education degree program and why you chose it. As an educator, the focus on the individual student is always t…
SOLES Alumnus Spotlight: Vincent Anthony '13 (MEd), Special EducationWednesday, April 1, 2020
Please tell us about your SOLES degree program and why you chose it. I was a business major as an undergrad at Marist College, and a year a…

SOLES Alumna Spotlight: Kim Athans '95 (BA), '00 (MEd), Curriculum and InstructionMonday, March 23, 2020
What led you to USD and the School of Education? What has your journey through education on campus been? When I started undergrad, I didn&r…
SOLES Alumna Spotlight: Tina Casola '01 (MA), Marital and Family TherapyFriday, March 13, 2020
Tell us about your degree program and why you chose it. Well, all the schools for grad school, none of them were large. I know I didn&rsquo…
SOLES Alumnus Spotlight: Dan Lang '11 (MA), Leadership StudiesThursday, March 5, 2020
Tell us about your SOLES degree program and why you chose it. I completed the Educational Leadership Development Academy (ELDA) and the add…

SOLES Alumna Spotlight: Erika Soga '16 (MEd), TESOLMonday, February 24, 2020
Tell us about your SOLES degree program and why you chose it. I was looking at the SDSU program (for the bilingual education and English ce…
SOLES Alumni Spotlight: Kevin '87 (EdD) and Jackie '94 (EdD) Freiberg, Leadership StudiesFriday, February 14, 2020
Please tell us how you met, and how that shaped your decision(s) to attend SOLES: Kevin I was in the doctoral program at the School of Edu…
SOLES Student Spotlight: Matt Dahlman '20 (MA Student), School CounselingWednesday, February 5, 2020
Tell us a little bit about yourself. I moved to San Diego when I started graduate school from Minnesota where I grew up. I love playing gam…
SOLES Student Spotlight: Belgica Crespo '20 (MA Student), School CounselingTuesday, February 4, 2020
Tell us a little bit about yourself. I am in my second year in the School Counseling Program at SOLES. I am currently a school counseling i…
SOLES Alumnus Spotlight: Sean Green '13 (MA), School Counseling, Doctoral StudentMonday, February 3, 2020
Tell us about your SOLES degree program and why you chose it. I am actually blessed to be a (hopefully) two-time SOLES grad. I completed my…

Join us for Peace Innovators 2020!Friday, January 31, 2020
Creating a better world requires new ways of tackling old challenges. For the third consecutive year, Peace Innovators highlights USD's thou…
SOLES Alumnae Spotlight: Janedra Sykes '05 (MA) and Jessie Towne-Cardenas '09 (MA), Nonprofit Leadership and ManagementThursday, January 23, 2020
Tell us about your degree program at SOLES and why you chose it: Janedra: For me, I was an accidental executive director. I started with a …
SOLES Alumna Spotlight: Stephanie Bernasconi '08 (MA), Higher Education Leadership StudiesTuesday, January 14, 2020
Tell us about your SOLES degree program and why you chose it. Though I grew up in San Diego, I first really discovered USD through a close …

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