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Department of Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education News

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Current Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education News

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A collection of the top news headlines featuring UNLV faculty and students.

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The career & life design director builds connections across campus and beyond.

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The top headlines featuring UNLV’s staff and students.

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After decades supporting female athletes and women's sports, the assistant professor has one last gift to bestow.

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Master problem solver and triple alumna Valarie Burke of the Graduate College helps make it happen at graduation.

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The assistant director of the Sciences Advising Center wants everyone to know: There's so much more to being an advisor than telling students what classes to take.

Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education In The News

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Las Vegas is set to host another Super Bowl at Allegiant Stadium, with the NFL naming the city the site of Super Bowl 63 in 2029 — a return that comes on a relatively short timeline by Super Bowl standards.

Inside Higher Ed

Should colleges and universities require the SAT/ACT again? More than 2,000 colleges and universities remain test-optional or test-free. The debate on testing continues to evolve as new data points emerge.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Middle school students can expect to take more exams starting next school year, according to a document sent to some Clark County School District principals earlier this month. The exams, scheduled to be administered in mid-December and mid-May, will test students’ knowledge in math, English language arts, science and social studies. The tests can be worth of up 20 percent of a student’s final semester grade in the subject being tested, the document states.

KLAS-TV: 8 News Now

UNLV discusses the Judging the Judges survey, what to do with the information, and the judge who scored the worst.

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Tacos and tuition? Burgers for bachelor’s degrees? It’s very possible if you work at Chipotle or McDonald’s, two companies that announced college tuition benefits for their workers in the last decade.

Nevada Independent

As Nevada appears to be finally turning the corner on its long-running issue of high teacher vacancies, new data shows that state public schools are seeing a surge in teachers with less than three years of experience and teaching subjects they are not licensed in.

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Recent Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education Accomplishments

On April 8, 2026, Bridget K. Daleiden (Educational Psychology) presented “'Easily Distracted': A Thematic Analysis of College Students’ Attentional Self-Efficacy and Self-Regulated Learning” in a paper session on motivation, belonging, and help-seeking at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting in Los Angeles. The…
Bridget K. Daleiden (Ph.D. Candidate; Educational Psychology) presented her research on music and self-regulated studying in an invited roundtable session honoring the legacy of Dr. Barry J. Zimmerman at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, CA. Daleiden’s research builds on Zimmerman’s…
Sarah M. Wolff (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) has published her work "Development and Initial Validation of the Mindful Self-Regulated Learning Scale (m-SRLS)" in a special collection in Mindfulness (Mindfulness Mechanisms, Methods, and Measurement) . The m-SRLS provides a reliable, valid, and context-…
Malena Baizan (Teaching and Learning) and Joseph Castellanos (Educational Psychology and Higher Education) contributed to the forthcoming edited volume Battle of the Bans: Narratives of Reading and Engaging with Banned Books. Published by Myers Education Press, this timely collection arrives during a global surge in censorship, ranging from…
Doris Watson (Educational Psychology, Leadership and Higher Education), with former and current doctoral students, Holly Schneider, Jenna Heath, and Amy Carvalho, published the article titled, "Doctoral Students' Perceptions of Mattering," in Education Sciences. The study examined doctoral students’ perceptions of mattering to their advisors…
April Ursula Fox and Nicole Thomas (Educational Psychology) published, in the Journal of Museum Education, the empirical research article: From Visitor to Author: How Visitor-Created Zine Artifacts Promote Meaningful, Multimodal and Culturally Mediated Learning in Science Museums. The article explores how zine-making can transform…