Accomplishments: Department of Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education
Federick Ngo (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published a study on the effectiveness of an embedded counseling and advising intervention for community college students enrolled in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) programs. These students, most of whom were adult newcomer immigrant and refugees, were…
NV EPIC's grant funded project L3-Linking Latino Leaders kicked off their project October 29 at MEET Las Vegas. The event was well attended, and many of the presenters included UNLV faculty and other local leaders. The more notable guests were Congresswomen Sue Ellis, State School Superintendent Joan Ebert, Dean Danica Hayes, and CCSD Assistant…
Nancy Lough (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) bestowed the first Lough Award to Ceyda Mumcu at the Sport Marketing Association national conference. The purpose of the Lough Award is to recognize an educator and scholar of sport marketing who not only promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion, but also publishes…
LeAnne Salazar Montoya (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) served on the national planning committee and presented at the second annual Chola Conference. She presented on "Culture Shaming: Ending deficit-minded thinking and negative stereotypes."
The aim of the conference was to provide a space in academia to…
Tina Vo (Teaching and Learning) and doctoral students/Holmes Scholars Adjoa Mensah (Teaching and Learning) and Mayra Marquez-Mendez (Educational Psychology, Leadership and Higher Education) were presenters at the Geological Society of America (GSA) Connects 2022 conference. Through the GeoPaths NSF Grant project headed by Pamela Burnley (…
Jacob D. Skousen (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) accepted an appointment to serve on the editorial board for the BYU Education and Law Journal.
On October 5-7, the National Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents held their annual summit in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Assistant professor Salazar Montoya (Education, LION) presented during a general session: "The National Committee Report for Professional Learning Growth and Development (PLGD)." She also presented with UNLV…
Megan Griffard (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) has been invited to join the 2023 Emerging Education Policy Scholar (EEPS) cohort, a program run by the American Enterprise Institute and Thomas B. Fordham Institute. The EEPS program "brings newly minted Ph.D. scholars and Ph.D. candidates who have a keen research eye,…
Professor Doris L. Watson (Higher Education) has accepted a two-year appointment to serve on the editorial board for the Higher Ed section of the Education Sciences journal. Watson currently serves as a co-editor for a special edition of "Sustainable Higher Education: Centering Equity-minded Practices" for Education Sciences.
Jacob D. Skousen (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published a policy paper titled, "Making Nevada Schools Safer: The State of Empirical Evidence" in Policy Issues in Nevada Education, Volume 5, Issue 1. In the paper, Skousen reviews the state of the empirical literature on school safety and argues that while…
Kendall Hartley (Teaching and Learning), Emily Shreve and Dan Gianoutsos (both Academic Success Center), and Lisa Bendixen (Educational Psychology) have recently published their research on college student smartphone usage in relation to planning, studying, learning, and other self-regulatory skills.
Hartley, K., Shreve, E., & Gianoutsos, D…
LeAnne Salazar-Montoya (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) presented a guest lecture for the New Mexico State University College of Education doctoral program in leadership. She presented on qualitative methods of research and highlighted photo voice and her past research utilizing qualitative research.