ANNOUNCEMENTS

Nominations for SOE Commencement speakers due Friday

Commencement will soon be here and we are beginning our search for our student speakers at the ceremony. We are calling on you to make nominations for seniors and graduate students who will be graduating this year who you think have compelling stories to tell and aren’t afraid to speak in front of a crowd!

Please send the names and email addresses of your nominees to lcspell@uncg.edu by Friday, March 3. Nominees will be asked to write a draft of their proposed speech and deliver it to a small committee who will select the final speakers.

Nominations for SOE Alumni Awards close today!

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 the end of today. 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.

Working Papers in Education Workshops

Hello graduate students in the School of Education at UNCG! You are invited to attend workshops throughout the semester to learn more about all facets of publishing in academic journals in general and within the UNCG Working Papers in Education Journal specifically. On Tuesday, March 7 from 3-5pm in SOEB 301, we will discuss author and editor relations and how to give and respond to feedback. It’s a great opportunity to gain experience with publishing and get to know students across different departments in the School of Education. Hope to see you there and contact Dr. Jamie Schissel <jlschiss@uncg.edu> with any questions.

About the journal: Working Papers in Education is an annual, peer-reviewed, online journal managed by graduate students of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s School of Education. It is committed to providing a venue for UNCG School of Education graduate students to share their research and contribute to academic dialogue. The journal publishes full-length conceptual, methodological, and empirical papers in education research. See <https://libjournal.uncg.edu/index.php/wpe/index> for more information, including the articles published in 2015 and 2016.

Gate City Writes Workshop

Gate City Writes Young Writers’ Camp

2017 National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

UPCOMING EVENTS

Defining the Faculty Role in Student Success Workshop

Undoing the Isms

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.

TECHNOLOGY

Important Updates to MyCloud for Faculty and Staff

New MyCloud Virtual Desktop Available for Students

Coming in April – New Developments with Adobe Creative Cloud & Mobile Printing

FACULTY AND STUDENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Congratulations to our new grant recipients!

Gabriela Stein, Psychology; Laura Gonzalez, Counseling and Educational Development; Andy Supple, Human Development and Family Studies; & Stephanie Coard, Human Development and Family Studies

Promoting Dialogues: Racial/Ethnic Socialization in Racially/Ethnically Diverse and Immigrant Families

Christine Murray, Counseling and Educational Development; Rick Bunch, Geography; & Xiaoli Gao, Mathematics

Identifying High-Risk and Underserved Neighborhoods for Interpersonal Violence and Abuse in Greensboro Using GIS and Big Data Analysis