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January 10, 2022
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Gevirtz School alumna Judith Freeman Garey has published Theater, Drama, and Reading: Transforming the Rehearsal Process into a Reading Process (NCTE 2021). In the same way that theater artists engage in a rehearsal process to...
January 4, 2022
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Gevirtz School alumnus Levi C. Maaia has been appointed by the Santa Barbara City Council to serve on the Santa Barbara Airport Commission through 2025. Maaia expects that this will be a busy time for the Commission, with the upcoming...
January 3, 2022
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Tina McEnroe and Chancellor Henry Yang in the McEnroe Reading and Language Arts Clinic at a Maker Faire in 2016
For over 15 years the Gevirtz School has been chronicling the ever-growing accomplishments of Tina McEnroe, M.A., L.H.D. (h.c.). She was our featured alumna (she earned that M.A. from the GGSE Department of Education) in our very first...
December 14, 2021
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Alumnus Dr. Paul M. Rogers has recently been hired as an Associate Professor in the UC Santa Barbara Writing Program. Rogers (Education, Ph.D., ’08) is a co-founder and the immediate past chair of the International Society for the...
December 13, 2021
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Alumnus Jay Plasman, Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at The Ohio State University, has won the 2021 Association for Career and Technical Research (ACTER) Outstanding Beginning Scholar Award. This award...
December 8, 2021
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Note New Date (changed because of Omicron) Don Lubach, Associate Ombuds at UC Santa Barbara, will give the presentation “Communicating with kindness with faculty, peers, students, and with yourself: An Ombud’s guide for the GGSE graduate...
December 7, 2021
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Amanda Andersen in a doctoral student in the Department of Education. She has a Master's in Political Science from Institut d'Etudes politiques de Paris, an interdisciplinary master's in audiovisual arts from LUCA School of Arts (KU Leuven...
December 3, 2021
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Natalie Holdren, Education Specialist Credential Coordinator (Extensive Support Needs) in UCSB’s Teacher Education Program, will give the Zoom lecture “Neurodiversity on Campus: Student-Centered Services and Faculty Support” on Tuesday,...
November 21, 2021
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Arun Rasiah, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, Director of Liberal Studies, CSU East Bay, will give the free public lecture “Racial Justice, Social Movements and Policy Change: Integrating Ethnic Studies and Education in California”...
November 17, 2021
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Kelsey O'Brien is a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Education working with advisor Dr. Rebeca Mireles-Rios. GGSE: You have an MS in Sustainability, Culture, and Development Anthropology from Durham...
November 16, 2021
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Advisor Dr. Julie Bianchini ceremonial hoods new Ph.D. Alexis Spina in June 2021
Twenty-seven doctoral candidates from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education took part in graduation ceremonies in the academic year 2020-21. Listed below are the new CCSP and ED Ph.D.s and their dissertation titles....
November 10, 2021
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Jeffrey Milem, Jules Zimmer Dean of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, was a guest lecturer in Harvard University’s Bravely Confronting Racism in Higher Education online course on November 8. (Milem was an invited speaker in the... -
Veronica Fematt (l.) with her dissertation committee: Dr. Karen Nylund-Gibson, Dr. Betsy Brenner, Dr. Mike Gerber, and (via Skype) Dr. Daniel Solorzano from UCLA.
Alumna Veronica Fematt (Ph.D., Education, ’17) was recently hired as the assistant director of UCSB’s McNair Scholars Program, a welcome return to campus. The goals of McNair are to increase the number of first- generation, low-income and/...
November 9, 2021
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Richard Durán, professor at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, will give the presentation “Ubiquitous Computing Design as Meaning Making” on Monday, November 15 at 1 pm PST. The talk is presented by UCSB’s Media Arts & Technology... -
Judith Green, distinguished professor emeritus of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, will give the presentation “Interactional ethnography and multimodality: Issues of epistemology, logic of enquiry and analysis” on Friday, November 12 at...
November 8, 2021
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Ruqayyah (Rue) Mansour is pursuing a doctoral degree in the Department of Education. She graduated with a BA in Political Science from UCSB in 2018. In addition to her coursework, Rue serves as the Development Assistant for Engineering and...
November 4, 2021
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The Gevirtz School is a campus partner co-presenting Annette Gordon-Reed and her talk On Juneteeth: ‘Freedom Day’ and Its Importance to American History on Wednesday, November 10 at 7:30 pm at UCSB Campbell Hall. The event is part...
November 2, 2021
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Veronica Fematt, alumna of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, has been named the assistant director of UCSB’s McNair Scholars Program. “I am excited to return to UCSB and continue working with underrepresented students who want to pursue a...
November 1, 2021
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Maria Guadalupe Romo-González and Gaby Hinojosa
Spurred to action by the ongoing protests against police violence directed at Black communities and the persistence of systemic racism, the Deans and the Graduate Division at UC Santa Barbara launched a new program in fall 2021 designed to...
October 27, 2021
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Christine Hirst Bernhardt, a doctoral candidate in UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Education, has won the 2021 Thomas J. Brennan Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. The Brennan Award recognizes excellence in the teaching...
October 14, 2021
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Recognizing the critical need for more and better prepared scholars in the areas of school psychology and special education, the U.S. Department of Education has awarded a $2.7 million grant to UC Santa Barbara and Boston University to...
October 12, 2021
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Alumni Profile: Dennis Ridley awarded the Albert Nelson Marquis Who's Who Lifetime Achievement AwardOn the Alumni News Page of the site we run a full story with Dennis Ridley (Educational Psychology, '72, Ph.D.) that begins with the following news: Marquis Who's Who recently presented UC Santa Barbara alumnus Dennis Raymond Ridley (Ph.D...
October 5, 2021
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Alumnus Scott Thomas (Ph.D., ’94, Department of Education) has been named the John P. ‘Jack’ Ellbogen Dean of the University of Wyoming’s (UW) College of Education. Prior to this appointment, Thomas had been the dean of the University of... -
Shane Jimerson, Professor of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, will be the featured guest on KCSB-FM’s new public affairs show “Schooled Radio” on Thursday, October 7 from 5:30 – 6 pm. (Note...
September 17, 2021
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The 2021-22 GSAE Officers (l-r):Diana Magaña, Ali Muller, Isaac Castro, and Mary Franitza
The Graduate Students Association in Education (GSAE) – the official students’ association that exists to promote and represent the interests of students in the Gevirtz School’s Department of Education to the UC Santa Barbara campus...