“Education is the only lever that enables children to escape poverty; and it is the teachers who activate the lever. Oklahoma must at some point deal with the inadequacy of pay to the most important people in our society. This is just one step in the right direction.”
--Gene Rainbolt
The College's revolutionary Debt-Forgiveness Program offers merit- and need-based assistance support to our students. This bold initiative is aimed at recruiting and retaining the nation’s best future teachers to provide the best education for schoolchildren in Oklahoma’s high need areas. This program specifically assists students who commit to teaching in Oklahoma in high-need areas. For each year that students teach in the state—up to four years—$5,000 of their student loans will be forgiven.
More graduate scholarship endowments will help OU compete nationally for top graduate students in Education. These scholarships would focus on full-time graduate students who support teaching and research within the College because those students have such a broad impact on the quality of education offered to all Education students.
In order to continually position the college as a leader in the field, it is imperative that we have more endowed scholarship funds for undergraduate students. Ideally,these endowments will generate enough income each year to fund scholarships that will substantially cover the annual cost of tuition, fees and books, which in 2014 is approximately $9,000 a year for in-state students.
Email: poedoughty@ou.edu
Phone: (405) 325-5683
Office: Collings Hall 249
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