At the Faculty Legislature meeting announcing Academic Senate awards: (from l-r) Lilly Lew (Dept of Education grad student), Diana Chagolla (Dept of Education grad student), Bertin Solis (Dept of Education grad student), Jeremy Edwards (Outstanding TA awardee, Dept of Education grad student), Gevirtz School Dean Jeff Milem, Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award winner Richard Duran (Dept of Education professor), Zoe Welch (Outstanding TA awardee, Department of Ecology Evolution and Marine Biology, she was a student in Duran's ED 210A Advances in the Learning Sciences and Education in fall 2016).
Jeremy Edwards, a doctoral student in the Department of Education at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, has received a 2017-18 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. Teaching assistants play a vital role in enhancing the teaching mission of the University. The Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards recognize the contributions of graduate students to the teaching and learning process at UC Santa Barbara. Up to four recipients are selected campus-wide, each of whom receives an honorarium of $1,000 and a framed certificate. UC Santa Barbara’s Academic Senate honored Edwards’s achievements as an exemplary TA at the Faculty Legislature meeting on April 19, 2018.
Jeremy Edwards is a fourth-year doctoral student with an emphasis in Cultural and Developmental Studies. In 2014, he received his B.A. in Psychology from UCLA with a minor in Education Studies. Under the advisory of Dr. Richard Duran, his current research focuses on university partnerships with local high schools in efforts to engage in dialogue about access to higher education for low-income, first generation college-bound students. Ultimately, he is interested in how access to outreach programs can help create academic pathways for urban youth in efforts to promote academic growth and self-concept. Edwards worked as a teaching assistant in the Department of Black Studies.