Connie L. Lurie College of Education

Credentials

Undergraduate

Masters and Doctoral

Sequoias Take Root: Pony Barnes Foundation’s $2.4 Million Gift Carries a Visionary Educator’s Legacy Into SJSU’s Future

Learn how a major gift from the Pony Barnes Foundation will expand opportunities for Lurie College students through scholarships, faculty support, and hands-on learning rooted in creativity, care, and community connection.

Deep Dive in Five with Adrienne Redmond-Sanogo, Dean of the Connie L. Lurie College of Education

Get to know Adrienne Redmond-Sanogo, the new dean of the Connie L. Lurie College of Education, and learn how her background as an educator, scholar, and leader shapes her vision for equity, innovation, and community at Lurie College.

The College of Social Sciences and the Connie L. Lurie College of Education Receives $2.4 Million Grant from the U.S. Department of Education to Advance AI Literacy

Lurie College of Education and SJSU’s College of Social Sciences are partnering on a $2.37 million U.S. Department of Education grant to advance AI literacy, helping faculty and students identify deepfakes, recognize AI hallucinations, and use AI responsibly.

Countdown to Commencement: Vincent Peña Embraces a Challenge

Vincent Peña, a student in SJSU’s SPARTANS OCLS program — a collaborative initiative that includes the Connie L. Lurie College of Education — is set to graduate this fall with his Occupational Career Life Studies Certificate. His journey in this program reflects the college’s commitment to inclusive pathways, peer mentoring, and helping neurodiverse learners build confidence, independence, and future aspirations.

Colleen Wilcox: Champion for Communication

Sam Kamangar highlights how a speech pathologist's journey from stuttering child to generous philanthropist embodies the transformative power of education.

Vondell Pilcher Goes Beyond the Stutter

Learn how Vondell Pilcher, ’23 BS, ’25 MS Speech Language Pathology, turned his experience with stuttering into purpose by creating Free Flow, a support group at SJSU’s Healthy Development Community Clinic, and developing resources to help others navigate communication challenges.

Institute for Emancipatory Education

The IEE facilitates community-engaged research and advances emancipatory pedagogies. Supports redesign of learning from preschool through post-secondary education.

Healthy Development Community Clinic

Our services are developmentally appropriate, equity-minded, evidence-based, and culturally sustaining for each child and family. We focus on children and youth ages 0-17 years and their families. Using a primary prevention model, we use screenings to identify need for evaluations, provide brief services, and targeted referrals to community resources and services. Educational programs are available in individual, family, and group formats both in-person, and via telehealth.

Early Childhood Institute

Recognizing the potential each and every child brings into the world, SJSU's Early Childhood Institute (ECI) seeks to transform the field of early learning and care through impactful research, training and advocacy efforts that promote equitable, high-quality, and inclusive early learning and care settings to benefit all children.

Center for Innovation in Applied Education Policy

Serving At-Promise Youth in K-12 education across California. The IAEP Center is based at San José State University and serves to empower California systems of support providers to better serve at-promise students. The Center is committed to interprofessional and interdisciplinary collaboration centered on closing opportunity gaps.

Institute for Regenerative Futures

The Institute for Regenerative Futures (IRF) is an intergenerational community-based collective of Black and other Indigenous co-conspiratorial educators, elders, healing practitioners, memory workers (researchers) and beloved community. Our collective emerged through timely intersections of community engagement, education, and research that highlight the psychological, emotional, and physiological impacts of anti-blackness and colonization.

Queer Hope Institute

Queer and trans youth across the country–even here in the Bay Area–continue to experience violence and discrimination, leading to elevated risk of depression, suicidality, and negative academic and health outcomes. The Queer Hope Institute meets this vital need for resources and capacity by providing evaluation and strategy expertise, serving as a community-university bridge, and designing and implementing new programming—ensuring that every queer and trans youth in the Bay Area can access spaces that uplift, empower, and sustain them.