Category: Faculty/Staff

Last week, Provost Prabhu hosted a reception for faculty who earned tenure and who were promoted.  Attendees heard remarks from Dr. Prabhu as well as from President Wubah.  We all celebrated the accomplishments of these exceptional professionals.

The College of Education and Human Services | School of Social Work did extraordinarily well.  Half of all faculty who earned tenure (6/12) and 60% of those promoted to Associate Professor (6/10) were from our College.  Here are the details:

• Tenure was awarded to Andrew Bland, Sarah Brooks, Janet Josephson, Beth Powers, Nakeiha Primus, and Curtis Proctor.
• Faculty members promoted to Associate Professor include Kelly Banna, Andrew Bland, Sarah Brooks, Janet Josephson, Beth Powers, and Nakeiha Primus.
• Ollie Dreon was promoted to Professor.

Here is a group shot of the honorees in attendance standing with the president and provost.

 

 

 

Congratulations to all!  Your achievements are a testament to your hard work as well as your commitment to your academic disciplines, the academy, and to our students who are the beneficiaries of your hard work as teacher-scholars.

 

 

 

 

 

 

As the Spring 2019 semester winds down and we prepare to head into summer, I want to take a few moments to share the recent activities of two members of the College’s faculty.

Dr. Nanette Marcum-Dietrich (Department of Educational Foundations) has secured funding in the amount of $399,179 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the Watershed Awareness using Technology and Environmental Research for Sustainability (WATERS) project.

The project will result in a student-centered, universally accessible middle school curriculum for learning water concepts and promoting water career awareness.  The curriculum will engage students in use of GIS applications and modeling based on data collected in local watersheds.  It will use Universal Design for Learning to broaden inclusivity among learners, and engage a handful of pilot teachers in the co-design and continuous improvement of the curriculum over three years.

Nanette, congratulations on this, your latest NSF grant!

Dr. Nicole Sorhagen (Department of Psychology) has spent this academic year collaborating with researchers across the nation as a result of having been awarded a prestigious National Study of Learning Mindset Early Career Fellowship. Nicole and her colleagues are engaged in analysis of data from the National Study of Learning Mindsets, a large, randomized, controlled trial of an online growth mindset intervention. Nicole has used the data to look at motivation, anxiety, and achievement in mathematics.

The fellowship is through the Mindset Scholars Network, a high profile interdisciplinary research collaborative whose mission is to “advance our scientific understanding of learning mindsets in order to improve student outcomes and expand educational opportunity. It conducts original interdisciplinary research, builds capacity for high quality mindset scholarship, and disseminates the latest scientific knowledge through outreach to education stakeholders” (Mindset Scholars Network).

Congratulations, Nicole.  Thank you for representing our College in this large national effort!