ANNOUNCEMENTS
Nominations for SOE Alumni Awards are Open!
We are thrilled to announce we will seek nominations for our alumni awards not only from faculty and staff this year, but from community members, friends of the SOE, and yes, alumni! We encourage anyone in our community to submit nominations for deserving classmates and friends, and we also encourage self nominations. The four awards we give are Early Career, Distinguished Career, Outstanding Achievement, and Distinguished Service.
We are accepting nominations through Wednesday, March 1. You may find a description of the awards and submit nominations through this form.
The awards will be given at the SOE commencement on May 12 at the Greensboro Coliseum, where the winners will be members of the platform party.
SOE Global News
See the 2017 edition of SOE Global News here.
Close Caption Online Course Videos
Please visit this link for information concerning close captioning online course videos and the closed captioning request form.
Triad Teacher Researcher Conference Proposal Deadline
Gate City Writes Workshop
Gate City Writes Young Writers’ Camp
2017 National Conference for College Women Student Leaders
UPCOMING EVENTS
Exploring U.S. and Chinese Culture and Education
The 1st Annual Emergent Voices in Evaluation (EViE) Conference
Friday, March 31, 2017
Hosted by the Educational Research Methodology Department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Keynote speaker: Dr. Jennifer Greene, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The 2017 theme is Broadening Voices in Evaluation, a focus intended to promote diversity and the novice evaluator’s dialogue, research, and practice. This conference will serve as a space where students with diverse backgrounds and experience can discuss theory and practice and share their unique work and studies.
Pre-Conference events (to be held on Thursday, March 30) include:
- Workshop: Dr. Jill Chouinard and Dr. Ayesha Boyce will lead a half-day workshop session on Culturally Responsive approaches to evaluation.
- Networking: The conference will also feature a pre-conference networking event.
Please join us for this graduate student-led regional conference for graduate students and new evaluators. Professors are also invited to attend. Presentation formats include paper presentations, poster presentations, and round table discussions.
The call for proposal is open until February 15.
For more information about the conference and call for proposals, please see evie2017.weebly.com.
RESEARCH
Faculty First Awards are due on Feb. 28. There will be two workshops on Applying for Faculty First Awards (12/5, 2:00-3:00 pm, and 12/6, 9:00-10:00 am). Register for the workshops at http://workshops.uncg.edu under Office of Research workshops.
Follow this link for an updated list of workshops related to research. It includes several new workshops (see below) For registration and more information, see the document.
- Connecting To and Documenting Community-Engaged Scholarship at UNCG
Additional session added in the spring on 4/5/2016, 12:00-1:00 pm
TECHNOLOGY
Coming in April – New Developments with Adobe Creative Cloud & Mobile Printing
FACULTY AND STUDENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS
The Department of Specialized Education Services (SES) was well represented at the annual conference of the Association of College Educators – Deaf and Hard of Hearing (ACE-DHH). Professions in Deafness faculty Drs. Jon Henner and Claudia Pagliaro presented along with SES doctoral student, Sulaiman Adeoye, who also gave a presentation with a fellow doctoral student from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. In addition, Dr. Pagliaro co-presented on collaborative research with SES doctoral student Taylor Hallenbeck, and with SES doctoral student Kimberly Hutter. ACE-DHH is the premier association for teacher preparation and research in Deaf Education and related areas in the US and Canada.