Accomplishments: College of Education

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.
Danica G. Hays (Education) recently co-authored a 27-year scoping review of online instructional practices and outcomes in counselor education.  The article is featured in the Counselor Education and Supervision journal, the flagship journal of the Association of Counselor Education and Supervision.
Gerilyn Slicker, Jenna Weglarz-Ward, and Alain Bengochea (all Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) along with Alison Hooper and JoonHo Lee from the University of Alabama, were awarded a three-year, $768,887 grant from the Administration for Children and Families in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The team will…
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…
Heather Dahl-Jacinto (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) and Danica G. Hays (Education) recently published the article, “A Phenomenological Investigation of Counselors’ Perceived Preparedness With Suicidal Clients,” in the Journal of Mental Health Counseling.
Danica G. Hays (Education) and Heather Dahl-Jacinto (Counselor Education, School Psychology, & Human Services) recently presented at the 2024 Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling in Pittsburgh, PA. The presentation was entitled, "Rumor versus Reality: Dispelling Myths of the Qualitative Research Process."
Tamekia Bell (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) in collaboration with colleagues from Northern Illinois University, The Family Institute-Northwestern University, and Syracuse University, published "Professional wisdom in counselor education: A consensual qualitative research" in Counselor Education and Supervision. 
Ung-Sang Lee (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published a new manuscript titled, "Embedding Racialized Selves into the Creation of Research-Practice Partnerships".
Katie Wade-Jaimes (Teaching and Learning) was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for her project, "Identifying, Enabling, and Supporting Racial Justice in Science Teaching." This project addresses the ongoing marginalization of people of color from science fields by exploring antiracism in science education at the K-12 levels in…
Katherine A. Feather (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services), along with colleagues from Northern Arizona University published an article, "Exploring Spirituality in a Counseling Course During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed Methods Pilot Study of Students’ Spirituality and Practices" in Counseling and Values.