Centers
Within the School of Education there are currently six centers, the Center for English as a Second Language (CESL) and the Arlitt Child and Family Research & Education Center.
Center for English as a Second Language
The CESL is affiliated with the Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) Graduate Program at the University of Cincinnati. CESL consists of three units: Oral English Proficiency Testing (OEPT) Office, English as a Second Language (ESL) Credit Course Unit, and the English Language Institute. For more information about the CESL, visit the CESL website.
Arlitt Child and Family Research & Education Center
The Arlitt Child and Family Research & Education Center is one of the oldest demonstration preschools in the United States. Founded in 1925 as the University of Cincinnati Nursery School, this child development center is sustained in part by an endowment from Dr. Ada Hart Arlitt, who was the first teacher at the school. The center serves preschool children from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds who are funded through Head Start, tuition fees, and UC's College of Education. Children from all funding sources are blended in each classroom in the center, which makes Arlitt one of the most diverse and inclusive preschools in the country. The Arlitt Center serves as an early childhood education practicum site for students from many programs at the University of Cincinnati, a research center for faculty and students, and an observation and teacher training resource center for the community. For more information about the Arlitt Center, visit the Arlitt website.
Action Research Center
The Action Research Center welcomes faculty and students in all disciplines interested in learning more about the practice of action research. The mission of the Center is to provide a focal point for educational and community-based participatory research efforts by scholars from across the University interested in exploring ways to make research more relevant in promoting social justice and in addressing critical problems and concerns both locally and globally.
Urban Center for Peace Education and Research
The mission of the Urban Center for Peace Education and Research Center is to educate students in Peace and Urban Education and to conduct workshops, seminars, conferences, research and internships in pursuit of this goal. The Center administers graduate certificates in Peace Education and Urban Education.
Center for Jewish Education
The Center for Jewish Education is a broadly construed academic project combining a research agenda with undergraduate- and graduate-level studies focused on questions of culture, education, and the modern Jewish experience. The research agenda seeks to advance our theoretical understandings of culture, relationship, and teacher identity and develop new models for teachers’ professional development. The center also offers rigorous courses of study including a Graduate Certificate in Jewish Education focused on developing and improving educators’ pedagogical skills and the acquisition of general content knowledge of Jewish culture and history.
Center for the Study of Leadership in Urban Schools
The Center for the Study of Leadership in Urban Schools is a University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) Program Center sponsored by the University of Cincinnati's Educational Leadership Program. The mission of the center is to stimulate, conduct, and disseminate research on leadership in urban schools.