Rossier Research Updates

Yasemin Copur-Gencturk received a NSF CAREER Award for the project, entitled “Development of Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Mathematics Among Beginning Teachers,” for $629,864.

Charles H.F. Davis III (USC Race and Equity Center) was awarded a contract to conduct a national climate study of the student affairs profession in partnership with the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA), $50,000.

Mary Helen Immordino-Yang was awarded the Spencer Foundation Mid-Career Fellowship for 2018-2019 for $150,000 for the project “Integrating insights from social-affective neuroscience into education research and policy on social, emotional and academic development.”

Mary Helen Immordino-Yang and the Brain and Creativity Institute received a grant from the Californians Dedicated to Education (CDE) Foundation for $10,000.

Julie Marsh (CEPEG) received the Haynes Faculty Fellowship for the project, “Kaleidoscope of School Options: Differentiating School Missions and Values in Los Angeles” for $12,000.

Estela Bensimon and her team (CUE)  will receive the AAHHE 2018 Books of the Year Award for Moving forward policies, planning and promoting access of Hispanic students and  New Directions assessment and preparation of Hispanic college students.

Patricia Burch (CEPEG) was awarded the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Award/Fellowship from the Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program.

Lindsey Malcom Piqeuex (CUE) was appointed to the Advisory Board at Strong Start to Finish at the Education Commission of States.

Morgan Polikoff (CEPEG) will be awarded the AERA Open Outstanding Reviewer Award at the 2018 AERA Annual Meeting.

Maxine Roberts (CUE) received the Minority Dissertation Fellowship at AERA for Mathematics Identity and Sense of Belonging in Mathematics of Successful African-American Students in Community College Developmental Mathematics Courses

Maxine Roberts (CUE) was appointed Knowledge Manager at Strong Start to Finish at the Education Commission of States.

Rachel White (CEPEG) will be awarded the Division L Outstanding Dissertation Award at the 2018 AERA Annual Meeting for her dissertation Donut Devourers, Fish Fanatics, Politicians, and Educators: Faces and Voices of State Education Policymaking.

CUE was featured in Grantmakers for Education Case Study “The Equity Journey: New Schools Venture Fund and Lumina Foundation Pursue Diversity on the Road to Equity.”

Chase, M.M. (2018). Policy implementation from a critical perspective: Analyzing transfer policy within an urban technical college. In E. Strempel & S. J. Handel (Eds.), Transition and transition. New research fostering transfer student success. Dahlonega, GA: University of North Georgia Press.

Kolluri, S. & Tierney, W. (2018): College for All in capitalist America: the post-secondary emphasis in the neoliberal age, Tertiary Education and Management, 2018.

Pathania, G.J. & Tierney, W.G. (2018): An ethnography of caste and class at an Indian university: creating capital. Tertiary Education and Management, 2018.

Shafiqa Ahmadi (Rossier Justice) served as a “Free Speech vs. Hate Speech” panelist for the Global Education Forum, hosted by the American University School of Education in Washington, DC.

Shafiqa Ahmadi (Rossier Justice) presented at the NASPA Conference 2018 Spirituality and Religion in Higher Education Knowledge Community Session: “Spirituality, Secularism, and Religion in Higher Education: Where We’ve Been, Where We Are, and Where We’re Going” in Philadelphia, PA.

Shafiqa Ahmadi (Rossier Justice) gave the keynote speech at Chapman University’s Second Annual Women’s Leadership Forum: Collective Lights of Leadership.

Shafiqa Ahmadi (Rossier Justice) presented an invited talk titled “Affirming Muslim Student Identities on College Campuses” at the University of Michigan for the National Center for Institutional Diversity Research and Scholarship Seminar Series.

Shafiqa Ahmadi and Darnell Cole (Rossier Justice) gave the keynote speech for the USC Neighborhood Academic Initiative Conference.

Estela Bensimon with Richard Tannenbaum, Tómas Morales, Laura Rendón, & Cristóbal Rodríguez (CUE) presented “Seminar on Culturally Relevant Assessment Tools, Implication Policy on Institutional Performance” at the 13th AAHHE Conference.

Megan Chase & Esmeralda Hernandez-Hamed (CUE) presented Action Research to Increase Transfer Equity at the AAHHE Conference.

Cheryl Ching & Adrian Trinidad (CUE) presented “Planning for Latinx Equity in Hispanic Serving Community Colleges” at the AAHHE Conference.

Yasemin Copur-Gencturk gave an invited talk at San Diego State University, sponsored by the Center for Research in Mathematics and Science Education.

Charles H.F. Davis III (USC Race and Equity) was invited to deliver the closing keynote address for the Jon C. Dalton Institute on College Student Values at Florida State University.

Charles H.F. Davis III (USC Race and Equity) served as a panelist for Division J of the American Educational Researchers Association’s virtual town hall entitled “New Directions in Higher Education Scholarship and Activism.”

Charles H.F. Davis III (USC Race and Equity) was the keynote speaker for Black History Month at Arizona Western College.

James Gray (CUE) presented “First Generation Equity Worker”

“Acceleration Across California” conference hosted by the California Acceleration Project (CAP).

Debbie Hanson (with Minerva Flores & Rebecca Montes) (CUE) presented “Building a Campus-Wide Culture of Equity-Minded Practitioners” at the AAHHE Conference.

Larry Hausner was invited to present his research on his upcoming book, “It’s Lonely in the Middle: A Call for Principal Coaching in an Age of School Reform,” at the California League of Schools Conference in Sacramento, CA.

Mary Helen Immordino Yang presented at the University of California Riverside Developmental Seminar Series “Embodied brains, social minds, cultural meaning: Interdisciplinary, longitudinal studies of emotional feelings and relations to outcomes in early adulthood.”

Mary Helen Immordino-Yang presented “Brain Development and Technology” as an invited panelist at the Computer History Museum in Palo Alto, CA.

Mary Helen Immordino-Yang presented “The fundamentally emotional nature of learning,” a 1-hour live webinar hosted by Digital Promise (audience over 1000).

Mary Helen Immordino-Yang gave the keynote address at the Learning and the Brain Conference in San Francisco, CA, titled “Educating for creativity, innovation and equity: Considerations from the study of emotion and social brain development.”

Mary Helen Immordino Yang presented “Why emotions are fundamental to learning” in the Sanford Education Webinar Series.

Mary Helen Immordino-Yang presented “Emotions, learning and the brain: Child development and the design of schools,” an invited workshop to the California State Board of Education Social-Emotional Learning Team, Oakland, CA.

Mary Helen Immordino-Yang gave the opening keynote address to the national conference of the Center for Enrollment Research, Policy and Practice (CERPP), title “Learning, emotions and expanding minds.”

Lindsey Malcom-Piqeuex (CUE) served as a panelist at the AAC&U’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusive Democracy (DEID) conference.

John Pascarella and Fred Freking presented “Reinventing Transformative Teacher Preparation, Strategic, Purposeful, Integrative & Cohesive: A New Curriculum for the MAT Program” at the Critical Questions in Education Conference in Portland, Oregon.

Julie Posselt (Pullias) presented “Trust Networks: A New Perspective on Pedigree and the Ambiguities of Admissions Decisions” at the Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research at Stanford University.

Julie Posselt (Pullias)presented “Examining Tensions of Diversity Efforts in STEM” at the Stanford University School of Engineering.

Julie Posselt (Pullias) presented “Faculty Support and Student Wellbeing in High-Diversity STEM Graduate Programs” at the American Physical Society Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, CA.

David Quinn (CEPEG) participated in the symposium for the session “Issues in Accountability Testing: State Standards, Alternate Assessments, and Opting Out” at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness in Washington, D.C.

David Quinn (CEPEG) presented “Within- and between-school contributions to black-white learning inequality during the school year and summer vacation: Evidence of the effects of differential school quality by race” at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness in Washington, D.C.

William Tierney and Michael Lanford (Pullias) asked tough questions about Cal State’s plan to end remedial classes in an op-ed for The Sacramento Bee.

William Tierney (Pullias) urged Universities to confront their past in an op-ed for University World News.

William Tierney (Pullias) was quoted in a Wisconsin Public Radio segment about conflict of interest rules for the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.

Cynthia Villarreal, Roman Liera, & Jordan Greer (CUE) presented “Building Equity Leaders at Hispanic Serving Community Colleges through Critical Action Research.