Accomplishments: Department of Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education

Megan Griffard (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and colleagues from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill published an original research article, "Resiliency Fatigue for Rural Residents following Repeated Natural Hazard Exposure," in Ecology and Society. The piece examines how residents of Eastern North…
Megan Griffard (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) was interviewed by Las Vegas 8 News Now's Ozzy Mora about the rise of homeschooling as an alternative educational model for K-12 learning and Nevada's policies and regulations for parents who are interested in pursuing homeschooling for their children. 
LeAnne Salazar-Montoya (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and UNLV alumni Brione Minor Mitchell's work has been published, "The Tenets and Foundation Building for Academic Success: Preparing Graduate Students and Postdocs for Professional Growth in the publication by IGI Global Scientific Publishing, "Educational Philosophy…
Jacob D. Skousen (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and colleagues at Brigham Young University published the article "Reflections Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Educational Leadership: Leadership Lessons Learned From School Building Leaders at the End of a Career in Public Education" in the Journal of School Leadership. This qualitative study…
LeAnne Salazar Montoya (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) presented at the 2024 University of New Mexico Mentoring Conference, leading a powerful session titled "Setting the Mentorship Pathway Ablaze Through Storytelling."  The presentation highlighted the transformative role of storytelling in mentorship,…
Iesha Jackson (Teaching and Learning) and Doris Watson (Educational Psychology, Leadership and Higher Education) participated in a panel discussion with colleagues Claytee White (Oral History Research Center) and Norma Marrun (Teaching and Learning) and former students Kenneth Brown II, Laurents Banuelos-Benitez, and Marbella Alfonso, all who…
Sarah Wolff, Jonathan Hilpert, Vanessa Vongkulluksn (all (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and their colleagues at UNC published a paper in Contemporary Educational Psychology titled "Self-efficacy inertia: The role of competency beliefs and academic burden in achievement." This paper uses the random-intercept cross-…
Dan Wright (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published the book "Public Crises and Personal Threat" with Glynis Breakwell of Imperial College in London and Universities of Bath & Surrey with Sage Publications.
Gerilyn Slicker, Alain Bengochea, Melissa Stoffers (all Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) and Sarah Wolff (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) were awarded $100,000 from the Administration for Children and Families in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for Secondary Analyses in Child Care and…
Ung-Sang Lee (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education), along with his co-authors, have published a book chapter titled, "Co-constructing social change: Opportunities and considerations in community and policy-based research-practice partnerships," in Advancing Qualitative Inquiry Toward Methodological Inclusion (Eds Rhodesia…
Writer, poet, and tarot expert April Ursula Fox (Educational Psychology), with Las Vegas community partner Avantpop Bookstore & Publishing, were awarded a grant by the Black Mountain Institute to develop the STTAR - Storytelling with Tarot project. The project brings 13 writers together to create short stories using Tarot cards as the…
Ung-Sang Lee (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published a new manuscript titled, "Embedding Racialized Selves into the Creation of Research-Practice Partnerships".