Accomplishments: College of Education

Danica G. Hays (Education) co-authored an article, "Best practices for associational advocacy in the counseling profession: A grounded theory investigation," in the Journal of Counseling & Development, the flagship journal of the American Counseling Association.
Gerilyn Slicker, Alex Faucheux, and Alain Bengochea (all Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) published an article, "A Nationwide Multidimensional Examination of Early Care and Education Access: Links Between Access Profiles, Equitable Enrollment, and Public Funding Policies" in Early Education and Development. Using a…
Melissa Stoffers, Gerilyn Slicker, and Jessica Ain (all Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) published an article, "Factors affecting enrollment of children with disabilities in child care and early education programs: A mixed methods study of Arkansas center-based programs" in Early Childhood Research Quarterly. This mixed…
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…