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January 21, 2021
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Three UC Santa Barbara Gevirtz School alumni--Stephanie Couch, Audra Skukauskaite, and Rick Bacon--are contributing chapters to Becoming an Educational Ethnographer: The Challenges and Opportunities of Undertaking Research, a new...
January 12, 2021
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TASH, an international leader in disability advocacy founded in 1975, welcomes Natalie Holdren from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School as a new board member. Holdren is a former TASH board member and past co-president. Dr. Natalie Holdren... -
Valerie Valdez is a doctoral student in the Department of Education, with an emphasis in Teacher Education and Professional Development. Her research interests include teacher educator pedagogy and teacher candidate development, with...
December 22, 2020
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Bradford Fried is a doctoral student in the Department of Education working with Dr. Dorothy Chun and Dr. Jin Sook Lee. His emphases are in applied linguistics and cognitive science where he is researching the relationship between language...
December 11, 2020
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Emeriti deans Norman Boyan (l) and Jules Zimmer (m) with current dean Jeffrey Milem (r) at an emeriti luncheon in March 2018
UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School laments the passing of Norman Boyan, Dean of the School from 1969-1980. Dr. Boyan passed on December 2, 2020 at the age of 98, only 12 days after his wife of 77 years Priscilla passed. Boyan was a...
December 8, 2020
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Sunghee Choi is a doctoral student in the Department of Education working with Dr. Diana Arya and Dr. Andrew Maul. After being away from school for a long time, she received her M.A in education from UCSB. As a mother of a 12-year-old...
December 2, 2020
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Torrey Trust at commencement in 2014
The Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) chose UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School alumna Torrey Trust (Education, Ph.D., ’14) and her co-authors for its 2020 Annual Achievement Award. AECT honored the article “...
November 5, 2020
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Diana Arya from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School is one of the featured panelists for the webinar “Work/Life Harmony: Mental Health in the Academy” on Monday, November 9, 12 – 1 pm PST. Co-hosted by the American Educational Research...
November 2, 2020
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The 55 UCSB graduate students—including fourteen from the Gevirtz School—who received summer mini-grants through the Multidisciplinary Research on COVID-19 and its Impacts (MRCI) program will take part in a Collaborative Symposium on...
October 28, 2020
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Michael Furlong, Natalia Jaramillo, Maryam Kia-Keating, and Rebeca Mireles-Rios of the Gevirtz School will be four of the presenters for the UC Santa Barbara Resilience Summit and Certificate Program. The summit features a dozen lectures... -
A Zoom screen from Betsy Brenner's ED205 class
While classes at UC Santa Barbara have been conducted remotely since March, that’s still not much time to develop the best new ways to teach. Each instructor has to figure things out for themselves depending upon everything from their... -
(photo credit Juan Carlo, VC Star)
It seemed more than fitting that the conversation at the heart of this story about Rio School District Superintendent John Puglisi (Education, Ph.D., ’01) took place while he was driving. For Puglisi seems like someone always in motion,...
October 22, 2020
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In light of recent protests against police violence directed at Black communities and the persistence of systemic racism, the Graduate Division and multiple deans at UC Santa Barbara have launched an initiative designed to enhance the...
October 21, 2020
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UC Santa Barbara Gevirtz School alumna April Regester, associate professor of special education, and her co-principal investigators at University of Missouri-Saint Louis (UMSL) have received $2.1 million in federal funding from a five-year...
October 19, 2020
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Jeffrey Milem, Professor and Jules Zimmer Dean’s Chair at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, will be the featured guest on KCSB-FM’s new public affairs show “Schooled Radio” on Tuesday, October 20 from 10 – 10:30 am. Dean Milem will... -
Department of Education Associate Professor Diana J. Arya, Ph.D., discusses what we know and still are learning about how individuals develop reading skills. She shares insights on forthcoming changes to school-based literacy assessments...
October 15, 2020
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Rebeca Mireles-Rios of UC Santa Barbara's Gevirtz School is the co-director--with Lisa Park, professor and chair of Asian American studies--of the new ÉXITO program. Known in full as Educational eXcellence and Inclusion Training...
October 14, 2020
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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...
October 12, 2020
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CCSP Class of 2020 Commencement Ceremony
Twenty-eight doctoral candidates from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education took part in graduation ceremonies in the academic year 2019-20. Listed below are the new CCSP and ED Ph.D.s and their dissertation titles....
October 8, 2020
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Michelle Grue, alumna of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, has been hired as an Assistant Teaching Professor with a join appointment in UCSB’s College of Creative Studies and Writing Program. Grue joined UC Santa Barbara in 2015 as a...
October 1, 2020
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Diana Arya of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School will be the guest speaker for the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History’s (SBMNH) next Science Pub from Home event. The webinar, entitled “The Science of Reading and the Reading of Science...
September 2, 2020
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The recently published Approaches to Lifespan Writing Research: Generating an Actionable Coherence (WAC Clearinghouse / University Press of Colorado, 2020), is co-edited by UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School alumnus Dr. Ryan...
August 20, 2020
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Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj, Associate Professor at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, is a co-author—with Adam Strom (Re-Imagining Migration) and Veronica Boix Mansilla (Harvard University)—of the EdResearch for Recovery brief “Supports for...
July 31, 2020
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Alumna Jasmine (McBeath) Nation of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School has been hired as an assistant professor of Liberal Studies, Science Specialist at Cal Poly College of Science and Mathematics. Nation earned her Ph.D. from the...
July 27, 2020
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Emily Evanstein has earned a Graduate Student Association Excellence in Teaching Award for going above and beyond as a teacher at UC Santa Barbara. She was one of the eleven 2019-2020 winners selected from a pool of about 200 nominees....