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.
New LIS Faculty Member
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s department of Library and Information Studies welcomes April Dawkins to its faculty, effective August 2017. April is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Library & Information Science at the University of South Carolina, which she expects to finish in May 2017. Her doctoral dissertation examines the factors that influence decisions around selection in school libraries and the role of self-censorship. April received her Master of Library Science from NC Central University, and earned a Bachelor of Arts in History from Meredith College. She holds National Board Certification for Early Childhood to Young Adulthood Library Media, and NC teaching licenses in school library media education (K-12), secondary social studies (9-12), and academically/intellectually gifted (K-12). At the University of South Carolina School of Library & Information Science, April served as a Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. Karen Gavigan. She also served as a News Intern in the Office for Intellectual Freedom at the American Library Association. April’s research agenda is centered around intellectual freedom and school libraries. This encompasses the equity of access to materials and technology for students, censorship in school libraries, privacy rights of students, and the role of policy and advocacy in the future of school libraries.
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
Honor Under Pressure: Reflections of a Former POW in North Vietnam
Smart Start Workshop
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