Bradley Marianno (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and co-authors David Woo and Kate Kennedy published "Collective Bargaining Agreement Restrictiveness in Unionized Charter Schools" in the journal Educational Policy. 

Maria B. Roberts (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) was elected to the executive board for the International Council of Professors of Educational Leadership (ICPEL). Roberts will serve in this capacity for a three-year term from 2023 through the 2026 academic year. Established in 1947, the ICPEL is the oldest…

Peter D. Wiens (Teaching and Learning), Leona Calkins (California State University and a 2022 UNLV Ph.D. graduate in Teacher Education), and Jacob D. Skousen (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published "Examining Teacher Leadership in the United States: How do BIPOC Teachers and White Teachers in Urban Environments…

Nancy Lough (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education), director of the Intercollegiate and Professional Sport Management program and co-director of the Sport Innovation Institute was featured by CNN on a story discussing equal pay at the U.S. Open. This year marks 50 years of equal pay at the US Open, which serves as an…

Jungnam Kim (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) published the manuscript “Black males and school counselors: Do they experience the culture in counseling programs and departments differently from Black females?” in the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development. She worked alongside colleagues (Julia Bryan and…

LeAnne Salazar Montoya (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and Kristin Kew published an article that focuses on the testimonies of accomplished Latina school leaders, shedding light on their upbringing, familial responsibilities, generational poverty, and commitment to challenge the prevailing narrative and break…

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…