College of Education

• The HEDCO Education Building is part of a new complex that brings together programs currently dispersed in twenty-one different locations in Eugene, provides modernized spaces for teaching and learning and enhances clinical program facilities in the highly ranked UO College of Education. The $50.5 million project includes specialized teaching spaces for math, science, and language methods, a teaching practice studio, an instructional design studio and a curriculum resource library. The building will also house integrated clinic facilities for the college’s three clinical programs—communication disorders and sciences, marriage and family therapy and counseling psychology.
  
  To be finished in 2009, the building was funded with $27 million in private gifts, $19.4 million in state bonds, and $4.1 million from other sources. The new building is named for a California-based foundation whose president, 1969 UO graduate Dody Jernstedt, holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the college's Communication Disorders and Sciences program. The foundation's lead gift of $10 million in 2004 launched the fundraising effort for the project.

Faculty support

• Five new endowed chairs and professorships were established by campaign donors.

• Campaign Oregon provided the college with its first Presidential Fellowship and six new endowed scholarships. Donors also provided increased support for graduate student research and travel.