Maria B. Roberts (Education) received a second Incentivizing Pathways to Teaching grant from the Nevada Department of Education to fund tuition and expenses for student teachers in their last semester of student teaching. Students may be eligible for funds between $8,400 to $10,400 each for the semester. The funding received for the spring…

Olivia Cheche (Political Science, Brookings Mountain West, The Lincy Institute), Peter Grema (Economics, Brookings Mountain West, The Lincy Institute), Blanca Peña (Criminal Justice), and Nicole Thomas (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) co-wrote a recent Op-Ed titled, "Students, Taxpayers Once Again Robbed by Higher…

Federick Ngo, Michelle Coyner, and Nancy Lough (all Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published their study "The Financial Behaviors of Chasing Athletic Prestige: Evidence from the NCAA Cost of Attendance Policy" in the The Review of Higher Education, the official journal of the Association for the Study of Higher…

Kristine Jan Cruz Espinoza (Educational Psychology, Leadership, & Higher Education) and Renee’ T. Watson (Student Affairs) published an article, “In the Hands of Students: The Charge of a Minority-Serving Institution Student Council at a Dual-Designated Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution and Hispanic-…

Iesha Jackson (Teaching and Learning), Miguel M. Gonzales (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education), and Adjoa Mensah recently published an article in the Journal for Multicultural Education titled, "It Is Not Equitable If It Is Not Culturally Sustaining: Teaching and Learning in 1:1 Laptop Schools." This study reveals that while…

Jacob D. Skousen and Raymond Gonzalez (both Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) presented a workshop during the 2022 CARE Conference. The workshop, Action Research in Education, was designed to assist teachers and school-based personnel (e.g., support staff and administrators) in conducting action research. Gonzales is a…

LeAnne Salazar Montoya (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) opened the National Gamma Beta Phi Conference, which was held virtually, with a general session, “True Colors: How Do You Learn and Lead." Montoya is a nationally certified “True Colors” facilitator and has presented nationally for a number of years. She concluded…

Jacob D. Skousen (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) with colleagues from Brigham Young University, Drs. Spencer C. Weiler and David Boren, and BYU graduate students, Jason Averett and Nate Crandall,  presented at the Utah Coalition for Educational Technology earlier this month. The presentation, "Reflections from the…

Norma A. Marrun (Teaching and Learning) and Marcela Rodríguez-Campo (Nevada State College) have coauthored the article.

Nancy Lough (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) is the lead author of a new report, DisruptHERS: Driving A New Model for Women's Sport, that was released by the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport at the University of Minnesota to celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month.…

Jacob D. Skousen (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published the manuscript "Social Justice Leadership: Coming to Know Another Possibility Through Autoethnography" in the open journal Cogent Education. In this study, autoethnography was used as a process and product to explore one leader’s journey opening and leading a new…

Jamil Johnson (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) presented his paper, "Critical Counternarratives of African American Males in First-Year Seminars," at the 41st Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience, which took place last month in Florida. His findings highlight the experiences of African American males who…