Accomplishments: College of Education
Kenneth J. Varner, Iesha Jackson, Christine Clark, Averill Kelley, Chelsea DeSalvo, and Norma A. Marrun (all Teaching and Learning) published an edited book, Multicultural Curriculum Transformation in Social Studies and Civic Education.
Ariana Garcia and Blanca Rincón (both Educational Psychology and Higher Education) co-authored a manuscript on how alliance-based STEM enrichment programs broker graduate-related opportunities for students of color. Using a single case study of a Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation alliance, they found that these…
Howard R. D. Gordon (Teaching and Learning) co-authored "An Exploratory Study to Develop a Career Technical Education Leadership Self-Efficacy Scale," which appeared in The CTE Journal.
His co-authors were Michelle Conrad of the University of Central Missouri, Kemaly Parr of Murray State University, Larae Watkins of University of Cental…
Manoj Sharma, Jennifer Pharr, Courtney Coughenour (all Environmental & Occupational Health), Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching & Learning), Kavita Batra (Medicine), and Ching-Chen Chen (Counselor Education), along with Asma Awan (Purdue University), and Hannah Catalano (University of North Carolina Wilmington), published an article “Using the Multi…
Maria B. Roberts (Education) has been appointed to Nevada's Commission on Professional Standards in Education by Gov. Steve Sisolak. She was nominated by Dean Danica Hayes for this position. As a regulatory body, the mission of the commission (COPS) is to set standards for licensing educational personnel in Nevada and facilitating a quality…
Sharolyn Pollard-Durodola (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), Jorge Gonzalez (University of Houston), Laura Saenz (University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley), Denise Soares (University of Mississippi), Nora Resendez (University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley), and Leina Zhu (University of Houston) published an article in…
Dan Wright (Educational Psychology & Higher Education), along with colleagues from City University, London, has published the partner version of the City Birth Trauma Scale in Frontiers of Psychology. The maternal version was published a couple of years ago in Frontiers of Psychiatry and has been translated into about 10 other languages.
Kenneth Varner and Tina Vo (both Teaching & Learning), along with Michaela Stone of Northern Vermont University, published the chapter "Toward a Glocality of Teacher Education: Professional Development Abroad in the Chilean Context" in the book Education Abroad: Learning Environments in a Global Context.
Rob Levrant (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute) and Ana Paula Loures-Elias (Educational Psychology) co-presented a lecture session at the 2021 Conference on Academic Research in Education. Their session, "Emerging Professionals in the Field of Learning in Retirement: A Case Study of Participatory Action Research," described and interpreted the…
Danica Hays (Education) was named as the fifth most frequent contributing author in the Journal of Counseling & Development, according to a recent metastudy of the publication's characteristics between between 2010 and 2019. Hays' contributions were a part of a larger trend for the publication — a 14 percent increase in women authors.
Shaoan Zhang (Teaching and Learning) has been appointed to be the Research Committee chair at the Association of Teacher Educators (ATE). The association's executive president, Alisa Chapman, noted, "This is a crucial leadership role for ATE especially as we begin to implement our newly approved strategic plan."
Danica G. Hays (Education) recently published an article, "A Systematic Review of Whiteness Assessment Properties and Assumptions: Implications for Counselor Training and Research," in Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation. The article presents a systematic review of the structural and psychometric properties of 20 whiteness…