Pricella Morris (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), along with her co-authors Monica Brown (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) and Monique Matute-Chavarria (New Mexico State University), published a chapter titled, "Advocating and Empowering Black families: Dismantling White abelist family engagement…

Steven Payne (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) and his graduate students recently published a new paper on the role of human attention on the behavior of shelter dogs. In the paper, they assess whether attention serves as a reinforcer to teach new behavior to dogs, if they can condition attention to serve as a reinforcer, and…

Katie Wade-Jaimes, Micah Stohlmann, Katrina Liu (Education), Monika Neda (Sciences), and Mei Yang (Engineering) received a grant of $1.2M from the National Science Foundation Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program to prepare culturally competent science and math teachers. The team will prepare a new cadre of eight undergraduate STEM students per…

Jacob D. Skousen (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and Ellianna Rodriguez (former graduate student in the Higher Education program and currently a UNLV Admissions Counselor/Evaluator) published an article, "The Costs of a Free and Public Education: An Analysis of a School District's Student Fees," in the BYU Education…

Jenna Weglarz-Ward and Joseph Morgan (both Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) were awarded $197,000 per year grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs for 2023-2028. Promoting Inclusive Early Childhood Education for Nevada (PIECE--NV) will provide support to NSHE associate degree…

Minkyo Lee (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education), who recently joined the Intercollegiate and Professional Sport Management program as an assistant professor, received the Emerging Scholar in Sport Marketing Award at the 2023 American Marketing Association Summer Academic Conference in San Francisco, California, in…

Sam Leif (Teaching and Learning) and colleagues presented "Exploring Gender Nonbinary Experiences through the Lens of the 7th HCI Grand Challenge: Reactions to the Categorization of Nonbinary Users in AI-Generated Online Advertising Profiles" at the Human-Computer Interaction International Conference. The presentation centered on the perspectives…

Gerilyn Slicker (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) published an article, "The Role of State Subsidy Policies in Early Education Programs' Decisions to Accept Subsidies: Evidence from Nationally Representative Data," in Early Education and Development. This study uses a nationwide sample of early education centers and state-…

Nathan Koerber, Mayra Marquez-Mendez, Adjoa Mensah, Kenneth Fasching-Varner, and P. G. Schrader (all Education) published, "Sustaining Teacher Needs: A Systematic Narrative Review Exploring Teacher Retention, Attrition, and Motivation." This systematic narrative review analyzed 35 studies and sources to identify the factors most commonly…

“Self-efficacy within Cultural Representation of Latino Teachers Moving into the Administrative Pipeline” Excerpts from the LtC interview with LeAnne Salazar-Montoya (Educational Policy and Leadership) and Kristin Kew, New Mexico State University, and David Wade (UNLV).  

Yingtao Jiang (Engineering), Shaoan Zhang (Education), Anthony Ferrar (Engineering), and Qingmin Shi (Decision Support) were awarded a research and development grant of $499,969 from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The grant supports the HSI Implementation and Evaluation Project, which has a primary objective of enhancing and expanding the…

Jacob D. Skousen (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) coauthored a new textbook titled, PK12 Education Budget Workbook: A Basic Guide to Assist PK12 School or District Department-Level Managers in Organizing, Analyzing, and Presenting Budget Data. The textbook was designed to support the preparation and development of…