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The UCEA Graduate Student Council (GSC), in conjunction with the AERA Leadership for School Improvement Special Interest Group (LSI SIG), began a new initiative called the Researcher Development Program in 2018. The Researcher Development Program (RDP) seeks to expand access to academic networks that dually support graduate students’ personal and professional well-being and scholarly development.

The RDP fulfills its mission by:

  • Striving to create accessible, inclusive, and humanizing professional development spaces
  • Promoting sustained, professionally enriching collaboration between faculty members and graduate students
  • Providing research, writing, presentation, and publication opportunities aligned with participants’ academic and professional goals
  • Promoting opportunities for faculty members to hone their mentorship skills.

You can access the Summer/Fall 2022 RDP Newsletter here.

We kick off this academic year with 14 mentors and 17 mentees! Currently, the RDP Planning Committee is supporting mentors and mentees as they begin their semester, setting their goals for the year, and planning how they will develop their final projects. Throughout their experience, we intend to support their relationship building, creativity, and project development. Here we provide a list of the mentor-mentee matches for the 2021-2022 cohort.

Mentor Group

Mentee

Mentee Institution

Craig De Voto, University of Illinois at Chicago

Zainab Qaabidh

North Carolina State University

Jamey Tobery-Nystrom, Frostburg State University

 

Jennifer Bailey, The University of Texas at Tyler

Emily West Geary

University of Vermont

Meghan Buchanan

Texas State University

Jeong Hoon Choi, SWIFT Education Center, Life Span Institute, University of Kansas 

 

Jayson Richardson, University of Denver

Aashna Khurana

Lynch School of Education and Human Development, Boston College

Jim Van Overschelde, Texas State University

 

Zhidong Zhang, The University of Texas--Rio Grande Valley

Kathryn Watson

University of Colorado Colorado Springs

Sylvia Royster

George Washington University

Joonkil Ahn, University of North Dakota

Congli Zhang

University of Oregon

Khalid Arar, Texas State University

 

 Laura Cruz, Penn State

Betty Cowans

Howard University

Jamal Donaldson Briggs

Southern University and A&M College

Lyndsie Whitehead

Howard University 

Michelle Taylor

Wayne State University

LeAnne Salazar Montoya, University of Nevada Las Vegas

 

Cailen O’Shea, North Dakota State University

Analisa Martinez-Morris 

University of Denver 

Max Yurkofsky, Radford University

 

Randy Hetherington, University of Portland

David Trautman

UCSD

Patricia Virella, Montclair State University

 

Catherine Zeisner, Gonzaga University

April Mouton

Texas State University

Michelle Johnson, MS.

University of Cincinnati

Naichen Zhao

University of Denver

Pinar Ayyildiz, Ankara Medipol University 

 

Türkiye. Martin Scanlan, Boston College

Anglesia Brown

Wayne State University

Meveryn Chua

School of Education (The College of William and Mary)

Seth Hunter, George Mason

Abby Vining

University of Denver

Vincent Cho, Boston College

Sofia Dueñas

University of Notre Dame

 

 

And check out the recent publication by Meredith Wronowski and four mentees, two of whom, Dr. Bryan Duarte and Dr. Margaret Thornton, are now faculty members, and one, Dr. Angelica Witcher, is an administrator at Virginia Tech, and one, Bita Razavi-Maleki, who is a doctoral candidate at UT Austin.

Wronowski, M. L., Thornton, M., Razavi-Maleki, B., Witcher, A. W., & Duarte, B. J. (2022). Beyond Tracking: The Relationship of Opportunity to Learn and Diminished Math Outcomes for U.S. High School Students. Teachers College Record124(6), 196–224. https://doi.org/10.1177/01614681221113473

 

For more information, please contact:

Dr. Christine Nganga,  ngangac@gwu.edu 

Dr. Kristy Cooper Stein, kcooper@msu.edu