Education cluster hire proposal featured in The Register-Guard

UO’s education program already is highly touted and it might become even stronger, as reported in a story on the Clusters of Excellence program in The Register-Guard.

The story, featured on Sept. 29, reviews a proposal brought by UO’s education program to add five faculty members. The five hires in the cluster would have strong backgrounds in academics and have prior experience working with students with disabilities. 

The department is currently ranked No. 3 among 356 similar programs at universities nationwide; only Vanderbilt University and the University of Kansas rank higher.

Chris Murray, chairman of the UO Special Education & Clinical Sciences Department, said that these new faculty members would make the program an “elite special education program in the world.”

―Nathan Stevens, Public Affairs Communications intern