NTDC meets needs of disability beneficiaries in pandemic year
The VCU Social Security National Training and Data Center continuously updated web-based resources and supported benefits counselors during the COVID-19 crisis, and will launch a new initiative to advance racial equity in the coming year. In a pandemic year, staff at the VCU National Training and Data Center provided over 2,000 hours of technical assistance […]
LaunchPAD eases back into community service
Volunteers from doctoral student organization help revamp pollinator garden at Reedy Creek headquarters. Jose Alcaine, Ph.D. (far left) and Chris Parthemos (far right) posed with park rangers during a recent service project at James River Park. (Photo courtesy of Jose Alcaine) A student and an affiliate faculty member from the VCU School of Education’s LaunchPAD student organization […]
MERREC Distinguished Fellows event to be held Sep. 30
Rodney Robinson (M.Ed. ’11/E) (Photo courtesy of Rodney Robinson) The Distinguished Fellows program, an initiative of the Minority Educator Recruitment, Retention and Equity Center (MERREC), will have its official kick-off ceremony at 5:30 p.m. on September 30 in the courtyard between Oliver Hall and the Trani Center for Life Sciences. Distinguished Fellows is a program aimed […]
Book proposes a new way to think about math
New book by Kurt Stemhagen, Ph.D., and Catherine Henney, SOE doctoral student, explains what can happen when math class is taken seriously as a space for democratic education. A new book authored by Kurt Stemhagen, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Foundations of Education, and Catherine Henney, doctoral student in the Ph.D. in Education, Concentration […]
MERC releases “Promise of Public Education” podcast series
Episodes feature topics related to the 18th Annual MERC Conference on Oct. 22. (Photo courtesy of Soundtrap on Unsplash.) The Metropolitan Educational Research Consortium (MERC), a center affiliated with the School of Education, has released its “Promise of Public Education” podcast series. The series is being released in connection with the same-named theme of the 18th […]
Dr. Scott among six honored at faculty convocation
The annual awards recognize faculty for their teaching, scholarship and service. LaRon A. Scott, Ed.D., associate professor in the Department of Counseling and Special Education, was among six faculty members honored Thursday at the 39th annual Opening Faculty Address and Convocation at the Grace Street Theater. The event, which serves as a kick off to VCU’s […]
Partnership earns prestigious VCU-wide designation
Parthy Dinora, Ph.D. The Partnership for People with Disabilities, a center affiliated with the VCU School of Education, has earned the designation as a university-wide “VCU Research Institute and Center” (VCU-RIC). The Partnership is one of only nine institutes or centers across the university to earn this recent designation. Each of the facilities was recognized […]
