A new scholarship fund for Latinx students in the College of Education is one way Professor Donna Phillips shows her gratitude.

Donna Kalmbach Phillips, PhD
Donna Kalmbach Phillips is passionate about her work on the Pacific Woodburn Campus. She finds joy and inspiration learning alongside the Latinx, Russian, and other first-generation students becoming-teacher.
“We pitch our teaching into an abyss between self and self, self and other. An yet something, and hopefully not a repetitive echo, but an inquisitive, ironic echo – a difference that makes a difference -returns” – Elizabeth Ellsworth, (1997).
Education
PhD, Oregon State University
MS, Western Oregon State University
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Education Professor Donna Kalmbach Phillips finds fulfillment — and applicability — in her work promoting literacy.
The Bachelor of Education in Teaching & English Language Learning offers a route for first-generation students to become teachers in their own communities.