Gerilyn Slicker (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) received the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Early Education and Child Development (EE/CD) Special Interest Group (SIG) Outstanding Dissertation Award for her dissertation titled, "Provider Participation in the Child Care Subsidy System: A Mixed Methods Study…

Alain Bengochea (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) co-authored "Sustainable translanguaging pedagogy in support of the vulnerable language: honoring children’s ways of ‘Showing’ and ‘Telling’ in an early childhood dual language bilingual education program" in the International Journal of Bilingual Education & Bilingualism.…

Kari Kokka (Teaching and learning) will be a keynote speaker for San Diego State's 8th Annual Voice Your Language Forum. The dual language and English learner education department (DLE) at San Diego State University, and supported by Student Success Fee Funding, is hosting this free event for students, faculty, local educators, staff, and…

Diana Pedraza Harrison (Clinical Mental Health Counseling) was recently recognized by the local news station, Fox 5, for her grassroots non-profit organization, The Promise, which is a charitable organization that serves the homeless community in Las Vegas.  

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…

Reina Ferrufino (Education) will be presenting her work titled, "U.S. Central American Students: Hidden Voices of the Latinx Communities," at the Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institution Educators' (AHSIE) 15th Annual Best Practices Conference: La Quinceañera: Celebrando Crecimiento, Past, Present, and Future.  

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…

Pricella Morris (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) and Monique Matute-Chavarria (New Mexico State University) co-authored an article titled, "Black mother scholars matter: Navigating anti-Black educational spaces for our Black boys," for a special issue of the Journal of Multicultural Affairs. 

Monica R. Brown (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) published "A content analysis of educators' perceptions of anti-Black bias: Implications for Black Students" in the Journal of Multicultural Affairs, 7(2). 

Adjoa Mensah (Teaching and Learning) has been selected for one of 15 highly competitive annual fellowships with the Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education (CADRE), a resource network for STEM education researchers supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF).   The CADRE Fellows program, which is now in its 14th year,…

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…

Shaoan Zhang and his doctoral student Danny Unger (both Teaching and Learning) published an article, "Exploring mentor self-disclosure in preservice teachers’ field experience," in the premier international journal of teacher education, Journal of Education for Teaching.