Federick Ngo (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) was appointed associate editor for The Review of Higher Education (RHE), the official journal of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). RHE is considered one of the leading research journals in the field as it keeps scholars, academic…

Federick Ngo (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) was invited to present at the 2023 Joint Mathematics Meetings of the American Mathematical Society in Boston, Massachusetts. He discussed findings from a study on community college student outcomes in statistics and math after developmental education reform efforts. The…

Megan Griffard (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) was quoted in a recent Las Vegas Review Journal article discussing CCSD's $32.6M budget shortfall due to lower student enrollment than projected. She shared some possible causes of the decreased enrollment and considerations the school district should make to…

Graduate student Sarah Wolff (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) serves on the Pablove Foundation's research advisory board. The foundation is a nonprofit organization that provides virtual and in-person participatory arts programming to pediatric cancer patients across the United States. She and her colleagues on the board…

Mark L. Spinrad (Center for Research, Evaluation, and Assessment), Stefani R. Relles, and Doris L. Watson (both Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published a manuscript, Not in the Greater Good: Academic Capitalism and Faculty Labor in Higher Education, in the special issue of Education Sciences, "Sustainable Higher…

Melikabella Shenouda's (Higher Education) proposal for the Best Teaching Practices Expo poster session, on the topic of "Revisiting Your Inner Child: Increasing FYS Students’ Engagement and Sense of Belonging" has been accepted. The expo will be a two-part event put on by the UNLV Faculty Center, with a poster session in the Student Union on…

Sarah Wolff (President's UNLV Foundation Fellow) and D. Wright (both Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) led COVID-19 methods research published in PLOS One with Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College, University of Brighton, and University of Bath. 

Megan Griffard (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education), along with colleagues from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Vermont presented the poster, "Education-Related Emergency Action during Covid-19: A Comparative State Analysis," on November 19 at the Association for Public Policy Analysis…

Graduate student Elizabeth León Zaragoza, Nancy Lough (Higher Education), Michelle Samuel, and Tedd Girouard (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) have co-authored a recent article published in the Athletic Training Education Journal. The study assessed the levels of cultural competence of athletic training clinical preceptors. Results…

Sarah Wolff, president's UNLV Foundation graduate research fellow, and Dan Wright (both Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published "How feedback can affect metacomprehension and the decision to progress" in Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology. 

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…