Accomplishments: College of Education

Megan Griffard (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and colleagues from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill published an original research article, "Resiliency Fatigue for Rural Residents following Repeated Natural Hazard Exposure," in Ecology and Society. The piece examines how residents of Eastern North…
Megan Griffard (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) was interviewed by Las Vegas 8 News Now's Ozzy Mora about the rise of homeschooling as an alternative educational model for K-12 learning and Nevada's policies and regulations for parents who are interested in pursuing homeschooling for their children. 
Chyllis E. Scott (Teaching and Learning), her doctoral students, Sonja Howard and Katherine Hallford (both Teaching and Learning), and colleagues Mae Lane of Sam Houston State University, Cindy Benge of Eastern New Mexica University, and Montana K. McCormick of Towson University, recently published an article, "Examining Asynchronous Virtual…
S. Kathleen Krach (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services), along with Shengtian Wu (Illinois State University), Dan Florell (Eastern Kentucky University), and Sara Whitcomb (University of Massachusetts), published aTechnical Assistance Brief for the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) with the title…
Danielle Mireles (Teaching and Learning) and Anna Acha (University of California, Riverside) recently published a co-authored chapter, "From compliance culture to liberatory access: reimagining disabled & deaf futurities on college campuses and beyond," in the Handbook of Race and Refusal in Higher Education: Like a Path in Tall…
Linc Johnson's (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) paper, "Exploring the Nexus of Language, Culture, and Identity: Insights from Interdisciplinary Perspectives," has been published in the International Multidisciplinary Research Journal as part of the 11th International Conference on Language, Literature, and Linguistics…
Nancy Lough (Intercollegiate and Professional Sport Management) presented Developing an Understanding of Women Sport Bettors at the Sport Marketing Association conference in St. Louis, Missouri. The study was the first mixed-method study focused on women who bet on sports, including women's sports.
Professor Nancy Lough (Intercollegiate and Professional Sport Management) was an invited panelist on the State of Women's Sport at the Sport Marketing Association conference in St. Louis, Missouri. She was joined by women from the NCAA Women's basketball committee, WNBA president, Washington Mystics and SVP Wasserman Collective. She spoke about…
Madeline Clark and Brett Gleason and doctoral student Karisa Odrunia (all Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) published "Recruitment and retention of minoritized students in CACREP-accredited counseling programs" in Counselor Education and Supervision with colleagues from the University of Toledo and Eastern Virginia…
LeAnne Salazar-Montoya (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and UNLV alumni Brione Minor Mitchell's work has been published, "The Tenets and Foundation Building for Academic Success: Preparing Graduate Students and Postdocs for Professional Growth in the publication by IGI Global Scientific Publishing, "Educational Philosophy…
Jenna Weglarz-Ward (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), associate professor, presented multiple sessions on inclusion and equity at the National Association for the Education of Young Children's Annual Conference in Anaheim, California. With Courtney O'Grady and Alison Hooper (University of Alabama), she presented Disentangling…
Chelsie Hawkinson (Education) and colleagues at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi and the University of Colorado - Boulder have published an article titled "Supporting Transition Needs of Early College Credit Students Through First-Year Seminars" in The Journal of The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. The study…