The annual ACPA Awards Reception was held in the evening of Sunday, March 30, 2014. Many MSU and HALE alumni and future faculty and students were recognized. 2014 Association Awards Senior Scholar Diplomate: Jill E. Carnaghi, MA 1977 (Washington University in St. Louis) Commission for Career Services Awards Outstanding Directorate Member Award: Ashleigh Brock, SAA… Read More »
HALE Faculty Updates
Grant Awarded: Amici and the Courts: A Case Study of the Research Use Process of Intermediary Actors
Dr. Patricia Marin, Assistant Professor, recently received a grant from the William T. Grant Foundation along with Catherin Horn (University of Houston), Liliana Garces (Pennsylvania State University) and Karen Miksch (University of Minnesota). The grant time frame is July 2014 – June 2016. Amici and the Courts: A Case Study of the Research Use Process… Read More »
Journal Article: The Legitimation of OECD's Global Educational Governance: Examining PISA and AHELO Test Production
Morgan, C. and Shahjahan, R. A. (2014). The legitimation of OECD’s global educational governance: Examining PISA and AHELO test production. Comparative Education, 1-14. doi:10.1080/03050068.2013.834559. “Although international student assessments and the role of international organisations (IOs) in governing education via an evidence-based educational policy discourse are of growing interest to educational researchers, few have explored the… Read More »
Dr. Ann Austin in the News
Dr. Ann Austin has been busy which is not unusual for her. Most recently, she was honored with the Division J (Higher/Postsecondary Education) Exemplary Research Award of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) earlier this month at the annual conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This award is a special honor our division bestows on one of… Read More »
Faculty Presentations: Association of American Colleges and Universities Annual Meeting
The Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities was held in Washington, DC, January 22-25, 2014. Dr. Ann Austin and Dr. Steve Weiland presented sessions at the annual meeting. Ann co-presented “How Can Faculty Learn About and Invest in Evidence-Based Teaching” with Dr. Mary Deane Sorcinelli, Associate Provost for Faculty Development at… Read More »
Journal Article: Academic Staff in the UAE: Unsettled Journey
Chapman, D. W., Austin, A. E., Farah, S., Wilson, E., & Ridge, N. (2013). Academic staff in the UAE: Unsettled journey. Higher Education Policy, 27, 131–151. doi:10.1057/hep.2013.19; published online 20 August 2013 “This study investigated how instructors in United Arab Emirates higher education institutions view their professional employment, the extent of their identification and engagement with… Read More »
2014 NASPA Award Winner: Dr. Marilyn Amey
Each year NASPA recognizes the outstanding contributions of members who are transforming higher education through exceptional programs, innovative services, and effective administration. The NASPA Board of Directors approved the 2014 NASPA Excellence Award winners and 2014 NASPA National Award winners during their winter board meeting. Recipients will be honored in March at the 2014 NASPA… Read More »
Journal Article: Being "Lazy" and Slowing Down: Toward Decolonizing Time, Our Body, and Pedagogy
Shahjahan, R. A. (2014). Being “lazy” and slowing down: Toward decolonizing time, our body, and pedagogy. Educational Philosophy and Theory. doi: 10.1080/00131857.2014.880645. Abstract: “In recent years, scholars have critiqued norms of neoliberal higher education (HE) by calling for embodied and anti-oppressive teaching and learning. Implicit in these accounts, but lacking elaboration, is a concern with… Read More »
European Research Conference Presentation
Dr. John Dirkx traveled to Berlin, Germany to attend the 7th European Research Conference held at Humboldt-University, September 4-7, 2013. Dr. Dirkx chaired a symposium on Transformative Learning that included his presentation entitled, All roads lead through the self: The individual and the collective in transformative learning. Abstract: “The notion that some learning experiences in… Read More »
AERA Report: Rethinking Faculty Evaluation for the 21st Century
In February 2012, Dr. James Fairweather was appointed as the chair for the AERA taskforce on Evaluating Educational Research, Scholarship, and Teaching in Postsecondary Education. The taskforce’s report on their findings was recently published. To read the report, click here. To learn more about the taskforce, click here.