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January 23, 2023
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UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School laments the passing of alumnus Ronald Heck, a professor and chair of the Department of Educational Administration at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Dr. Heck passed on January 11, 2023 at the age of 71...
January 17, 2023
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In an effort to increase accessibility to the lecture series “Fast & Curious: ED Talks from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School,” the School will provide ASL and Spanish language interpreters for the first time at its upcoming event. The...
January 13, 2023
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The Department of Education will be hosting a CV workshop on Thursday, January 19th from 12–1:50 pm in room 1207 of the Education Building (1207 ED Building) on the UC Santa Barbara campus. The workshop is open to graduate students in the...
December 12, 2022
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Antar Tichavakunda, Assistant Professor of Race and Higher Education at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School is co-facilitating—with Raquel M. Rall, Associate Professor, School of Education, UC Riverside—a webinar examining Critical Race... -
A TV news story about Harding Beautification Day, when community and GGSE volunteers helped plant native trees and plants on the Harding University Partnership School campus.
December 5, 2022
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GGSE: What is your main area of research interest and why? Marcela Alvarez (first year student in the Department of Education): I am interested in translanguaging as a form of culturally sustaining...
November 29, 2022
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Dr. Joseph Bishop (Education, Policy, Leadership, Organizations, Ph.D., ’08) has edited the forthcoming book, Our Children Can’t Wait: The Urgency of Reinventing Education Policy in America (Teachers College Press, 2022). In ...
November 22, 2022
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Eleven members of the Gevirtz School faculty have recently heard from the Academic Senate about well-earned promotions. Richard Durán has been promoted to Distinguished Professor; Tarek Azzam, Erika Felix, and Karen Nylund-Gibson have been...
November 18, 2022
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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 7. This is the third time Milem has been... -
Alumna Jacqueline Reid of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School was appointed as a 2nd District Commissioner for the County of Santa Barbara’s Commission for Women. The Santa Barbara County Commission for Women is dedicated to ensuring the...
November 7, 2022
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GGSE: You have five years of middle school science teaching experience. What made you want to go back to school and get a Ph.D. in the Department of Education? Kaylee Laub: I decided to go back to school...
November 4, 2022
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The lecture series, “Fast & Curious: ED Talks from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School,” returns for its first in-person event since Covid, on Wednesday, January 25, 2023 at 7 pm in the Faulkner Gallery of the Santa Barbara Public... -
Capacity building for education scholars includes a wide range of opportunities to stay up to date on research skills. One such way is to keep up on the ever growing statistical approaches through workshops that tend to follow similar...
November 3, 2022
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Antar Tichavakunda showing his excitement about his new job at UCSB
The pandemic-induced shutdown in March 2020 could have been cataclysmic for academia, as so much of teaching and learning is centered upon being present. (Let’s not even consider the difficulties of doing most research at a distance.) And...
October 27, 2022
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Alumna Emily Solari of UC Santa Barbara's Gevirtz School was a major contributor, in collaboration with the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Law and Virginia State Delegate Carrie Coyner, to the development and recent passage of the...
October 18, 2022
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Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj, Associate Professor at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, is a co-author—with Jacob Kirksey, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University and Gevirtz School alumnus—of the Policy Analysis for California Education (... -
The UCLA National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies, and the Gevirtz School of Education, UC Santa Barbara, are hosting a celebratory event... -
Readers for October 20 event: Shirley Lim (top), Chryss Yost (l) and George Yatchisin (r)
Dr. Chryss Yost and George Yatchisin, staff members at the Gevirtz School, will be featured readers as part of “Writers & Wordsmiths of Santa Barbara: An Open Mic Event with Dr. Shirley Geok-lin Lim” on Thursday, October 20 at 4 pm in...
October 13, 2022
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The Department of Education at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School will hold a virtual Open House for prospective students on Thursday, October 27 from 10-11 am on Zoom. The event will also feature a Q&A. Participants will learn about...
October 6, 2022
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Dr. Eupha Jeanne Daramola has been named a UC Santa Barbara Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow for 2022-23. Daramola will work in the Gevirtz School’s Department of Education under the mentorship of Dr. Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj. The Chancellor’s...
October 4, 2022
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Miriam Thompson and Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj, the Gevirtz School's new graduate diversity officers
This fall the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology (CCSP) appointed Assistant Teaching Professor Miriam Thompson and the Department of Education appointed Associate Professor Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj as graduate diversity...
September 27, 2022
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The 2022-23 officers of the Graduate Students Association in Education (GSAE): (l-r) Dee Dee Hong, Jing Su, Liliana Garcia, Caitlin Ng
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...
September 21, 2022
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Alumna Kathy Fox of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has co-edited, with Laura Szech, the Handbook of Research on Family Literacy Practices and Home-School Connections (IGI Global 2022). In addition, Fox, professor in the...
September 8, 2022
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Alumna April Regester of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has received the 2022 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Service from the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL). This Award recognizes and honors outstanding academic,...
September 6, 2022
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Alexandria Muller (she/they) is a fourth year Ph.D. candidate studying STEM Education under Dr. Danielle Harlow. She received her B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Arizona prior to coming to UCSB to earn her M...