Faculty & Staff
Department Administration
Cheryl Hunter
PhD
Department Chair, Associate Professor
Specialties: Qualitative Research Methodologist
- cheryl.hunter@UND.edu
- 701.777.3431
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Education Building Room 240
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Administrative Secretary
- helen.elden@UND.edu
- 701.777.3143
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Education Building Room 238
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Ed.D.
Assistant Professor
Specialties: sociology of higher education, access and success, diversity and inclusion
- zarrina.azizova@UND.edu
- 701.777.3737
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Education Building Room 316
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
- virginia.clinton@UND.edu
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Education Room 260
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Learning Disabilities, Emotional/Behavioral Disorders, Intellectual Disabilities, Assessment, Progress Monitoring
- michelle.griffin@UND.edu
- 701.777.3187
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Education Building, Room 371
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Sherryl (Sherry) Houdek
Ed.D. Educational Leadership
Associate Professor
Specialties: Educational Leadership
- sherryl.houdek@UND.edu
- 701.777.3577
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Education Building, Room 370
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Joshua Hunter
BA History; MPA Environmental Studies; PhD
Associate Professor
Specialties: Anthropology, Ethnography, Outdoor and Environmental Education, Outdoor Leadership
- joshua.hunter@UND.edu
- 701.777.3582
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Education Building Room 372
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Associate Chair, Associate Professor
- gail.ingwalson@UND.edu
- 701.777.2864
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Education Building Room 284
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Amy Jacobson
EdD
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Learning Disabilities, Emotional Behavioral Disorders, and Intellectual Disabilities
- amy.jacobson@UND.edu
- 701.777.4719
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Education Building Room 385
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Casey (Carolyn) Ozaki
M.Ed Student Affairs; Ph.D Higher Education
Department Chair, Associate Professor
Specialties: Higher Education, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Community Colleges, College Student Persistence
- carolyn.ozaki@UND.edu
- 701.777.4256
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Education Building Room 354
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Assistant Professor
- jared.schlenker@UND.edu
- 701.777.3584
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Education Building Room 288
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
EFR Programs Director (PhD, MS, LA Cert, Qant Cert)
- robert.stupnisky@UND.edu
- 701.777.0744
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Education Building Room 252
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Assoc. Professor
- deborah.worley@UND.edu
- 701.777.3140
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Education Building Room 352
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Educational Leadership
Sherryl (Sherry) Houdek
Ed.D. Educational Leadership
Associate Professor
Specialties: Educational Leadership
- sherryl.houdek@UND.edu
- 701.777.3577
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Education Building, Room 370
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Assistant Professor
- jared.schlenker@UND.edu
- 701.777.3584
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Education Building Room 288
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Special Education
Renae Bjorg
PhD
Assistant Professor
- renae.bjorg@UND.edu
- 701.777.6760
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Education Building, Room 318
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Instructor
- bridgette.campoverde@UND.edu
- 701.777.3186
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Education Building Room 387
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Kari Chiasson
UND Ed. D. Teacher Education
Graduate Director Early Childhood Special Education and Visual Impairment
Specialties: Early Childhood Special Education, Visual Impairment
- kari.chiasson@UND.edu
- 701.777.3236
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Education Building Room 218
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Shannon Grave
PHD, MED, BSSW
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Autism Spectrum Disorder, Early Childhood Mental Health, Early Childhood, MTSS/RTI, Behavior Support, Wrap-Around Services, School Based Mental Health
- shannon.grave@UND.edu
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Education Building Room 238
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Learning Disabilities, Emotional/Behavioral Disorders, Intellectual Disabilities, Assessment, Progress Monitoring
- michelle.griffin@UND.edu
- 701.777.3187
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Education Building, Room 371
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Tamara Hoffer
Masters of Science in Special Education Strategist
Instructor
Specialties: Special Education Strategist, Emotional Disabilities
- tamara.waldal@UND.edu
- 701.777.3239
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Education Room 314
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Terri Houghton
BS Elem. Educ., MS Special Education Strategist
Instructor
Specialties: Special Education Assessment :: Learning Disabilities, Intellectual Disabilities, Emotional Behavioral Disorders
- terri.houghton@UND.edu
- 701.777.3239
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Education Building
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Amy Jacobson
EdD
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Learning Disabilities, Emotional Behavioral Disorders, and Intellectual Disabilities
- amy.jacobson@UND.edu
- 701.777.4719
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Education Building Room 385
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
ASD Program Manager
- carol.a.johnson.2@UND.edu
- 701.777.0612
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Education Building Room 258
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Assoc. Professor
- patricia.mahar@UND.edu
- 701.777.6054
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Education Building Room 388
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Clinical Asst. Professor
- julyse.horr@UND.edu
- 701.777.3155
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Education Room 200
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
- joanna.ryan@UND.edu
- 701.777.2863
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Education Room 384
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Teaching & Leadership
Associate Professor
Specialties: Literacy Education, Literacy Practices, Assessment and Instruction, Student-Centered Views of Teaching, Qualitative Methods
- pamela.beck@UND.edu
- 701.777.6173
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Education Building Room 322
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Sonja Brandt
PhD in Teacher Education
Assistant Professor in Elementary Education Methods
- sonja.brandt@UND.edu
- 701.777.3145
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Education Room 376
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
- hyonsuk.cho@UND.edu
- 701.777.3162
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Education Building Room 272
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
- christopher.h.clark@UND.edu
- 701.777.3188
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Education Room 262
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Assistant Professor
- renuka.desilva@UND.edu
- 701.777.5868
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Education Room 256
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Associate Professor
- bonni.gourneau@UND.edu
- 701.777.2920
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Education Building Room 394
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Associate Chair, Associate Professor
- gail.ingwalson@UND.edu
- 701.777.2864
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Education Building Room 284
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Associate Professor
- grace.keengwe@UND.edu
- 701.777.3378
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Education Building Room 276
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Professor
- jared.keengwe@UND.edu
- 701.777.3189
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Education Building Room 290
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
- yujin.lee.1@UND.edu
- 701.777.3243
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Education Building Room 392
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
- naomi.mcgaughey@UND.edu
- 701.777.5939
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Education Building Room 222
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Casey (Carolyn) Ozaki
M.Ed Student Affairs; Ph.D Higher Education
Department Chair, Associate Professor
Specialties: Higher Education, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Community Colleges, College Student Persistence
- carolyn.ozaki@UND.edu
- 701.777.4256
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Education Building Room 354
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Donna K. Pearson
Ph.D.
Associate Dean of Student Services and Assessment
- donna.pearson@UND.edu
- 701.777.2861
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Education Building, Room 306
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Julie Robinson
Ed.D.
Assistant Professor
- julie.robinson@UND.edu
- 701.777.3139
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Education Building, Room 378
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Associate Professor
- kathy.smart@UND.edu
- 701.777.2120
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Education Building Room 320
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Science Education, Nature of Science, Affective Outcomes in Science Education, Quantitative and Mixed Methods
- ryan.summers@UND.edu
- 701.777.3144
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Education Building, Room 338
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
ECE Graduate Director
Specialties: Birth to three, Early Intervention, Speech-Language Pathology, Child development, Policy, State systems, Family collaboration and teaming, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) master trainer, and resiliency in early childhood
- kristen.votava@UND.edu
- 701.777.5683
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Education Building Room 374
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
JoAnne Yearwood
BS, in Education, MS in ECE
Clinical Asst. Professor
- joanne.yearwood@UND.edu
- 701.777.6580
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Education Room 324
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189