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
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Mentee
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Mentee Institution
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Craig De Voto, University of Illinois at Chicago
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Zainab Qaabidh
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North Carolina State University
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Jamey Tobery-Nystrom, Frostburg State University
Jennifer Bailey, The University of Texas at Tyler
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Emily West Geary
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University of Vermont
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Meghan Buchanan
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Texas State University
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Jeong Hoon Choi, SWIFT Education Center, Life Span Institute, University of Kansas
Jayson Richardson, University of Denver
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Aashna Khurana
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Lynch School of Education and Human Development, Boston College
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Jim Van Overschelde, Texas State University
Zhidong Zhang, The University of Texas--Rio Grande Valley
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Kathryn Watson
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University of Colorado Colorado Springs
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Sylvia Royster
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George Washington University
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Joonkil Ahn, University of North Dakota
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Congli Zhang
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University of Oregon
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Khalid Arar, Texas State University
Laura Cruz, Penn State
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Betty Cowans
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Howard University
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Jamal Donaldson Briggs
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Southern University and A&M College
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Lyndsie Whitehead
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Howard University
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Michelle Taylor
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Wayne State University
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LeAnne Salazar Montoya, University of Nevada Las Vegas
Cailen O’Shea, North Dakota State University
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Analisa Martinez-Morris
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University of Denver
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Max Yurkofsky, Radford University
Randy Hetherington, University of Portland
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David Trautman
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UCSD
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Patricia Virella, Montclair State University
Catherine Zeisner, Gonzaga University
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April Mouton
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Texas State University
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Michelle Johnson, MS.
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University of Cincinnati
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Naichen Zhao
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University of Denver
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Pinar Ayyildiz, Ankara Medipol University
Türkiye. Martin Scanlan, Boston College
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Anglesia Brown
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Wayne State University
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Meveryn Chua
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School of Education (The College of William and Mary)
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Seth Hunter, George Mason
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Abby Vining
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University of Denver
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Vincent Cho, Boston College
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Sofia Dueñas
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University of Notre Dame
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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 Record,
124(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