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Dr. Jennifer Lucko, professor and co-chair of the Education Department, has received the 2025 Joseph R. Fink Faculty Achievement Award. Dr. Lucko was presented the award at the university’s fall...

Three years after launching a scholarship program to address the shortage of teachers of color working in Marin County’s public schools, Dominican University of California is expanding the program...

Britney Gutierrez Calderon ’24 grew up in the Canal neighborhood in San Rafael, located only a mile away from the Dominican University of California campus. However, for much of her childhood...

Receiving a Marin Teachers of Color (TOC) scholarship is giving La Donna Clark ’03 an opportunity to return to Dominican University of California. It also represents a second chance for La Donna in...

From an early age, Silvia Gramajo Mazariegos ’23 and her friends learned to be afraid of the police. Growing up in San Rafael’s Canal neighborhood, they heeded warnings from family and neighbors who...

Seeing that her older siblings Eleanna ’10 and David ’14 were standout student-athletes at Dominican University of California, the fact that Julianna Mendez ‘17, now a graduate student excelling in...

Itta González, a full-time graduate student at Dominican University of California who also teaches full-time at Lynwood Elementary where her two sons attend school, has had an incredibly busy life...

As a recipient of a Marin Teacher of Color (TOC) scholarship at Dominican, Lizbet Estrada Rebollar of Novato is feeling more confident about her future in teaching. “It sounds strange and even...

Dominican’s Department of Education has partnered with the Marin County Office of Education to launch a professional development series to support Marin’s K-12 teachers with distance learning. The...

Sierra Carlson ’17 is a teacher at Novato High School who is still learning at Dominican. While she continues to take classes to complete her Masters of Science in Education in the School of Liberal...