News & Events

 

May 2013

LRF Faculty Receives Fellowship

Congratulations to Dr. Corinne Harmon, faculty member for the Leadership, Research and Foundations Department. She has been named a Daniels Ethics Fellow for the 2013-2014 academic year. Campus wide, only six faculty are chosen for this award, which carries a stipend and focuses on active engagement of students.

April 2013

CHS Faculty Awarded Engaged Scholarship Grant

Dr. Leann Morgan, Assistant Professor in the Counseling and Human Services Department, was recently awarded the Engaged Scholarship Grant through Colorado Campus Compact (CCC) for her service-learning proposal, “Counseling Student Outreach: Engaging Recent Veterans in Career Development.”  Reviewers were impressed with the project’s focus on identified community needs and its implications for creating visibility around services learning on the UCCS campus. The national peer-review selection process for Fall 2013 is extremely competitive. This grant supports and strengthens community engagement in teaching and research through the development of reciprocal campus and community partnerships, the promotion of student learning, and the increase of visibility and legitimacy of community engaged work in higher education. Engaged Scholarship Grants are awarded in three categories: service-learning course construction or development, community-engaged research, and community engagement impact research.

COE Instructor Receives High Scores in Quality Matters Pilot Program

Dr. Linda Button, instructor for the Curriculum and Instruction Department recently received high scores in the Quality Matters(QM) pilot program. The Review Team awarded her a 92 out of 95 possible points for the course CURR 5002 Issues, Models, and Theories of Curriculum Design. Dr. Button was one of four faculty across campus to participate in the Quality Matters pilot program. Each faculty member submitted a course that had been previously taught and each course was reviewed by a team of reviewers that were Certified Peer Reviewers in the QM program. Each member of the Review Team thoroughly examined her course based on the eight general and forty one specific standards in the Quality Matters rubric. Quality Matters (QM) is a leader in quality assurance for online education and has received national recognition for its peer-based approach to continuous improvement in online education and student learning.

Alumna Co-authors Article Chosen as Article of the Year for Journal

Alumna Mary Wilson, a 2012 graduate of the Educational Leadership, Research, and Policy Ph.D. program, co-authored an article, Testing the Relation Between Fidelity of Implementation and Student Outcomes in Math. Other co-authors , Dr. Lindy Crawford, Dr. Dick Carpenter, Dr. Megan Schmeister and Ms. Marilee McDonald. The article has been published in the journal, Assessment for Effective Intervention and was chosen as article of the year for the journal. To view the abstract or download the PDF visit: http://aei.sagepub.com/content/37/4/224.abstract

Spring 2013 Service-learning Projects Highlighted in the Scribe

Many students come back from spring break well-rested and tanned. Students in the Alternative Break Program came back with stories. The Alternative Spring Break Program, a club at UCCS led by Sarah Elsey, invites students to participate in community service during break. This year, 17 students volunteered over spring break and split into two volunteer groups – one went to Denver and the other to Cheyenne Wyoming. Read about this Spring Break's Service-learning projects highlighted in the Scribe.

March 2013

CHS Faculty Present at ACA

Dr. Julaine Field and Dr. David Fenell both presented at the ACA Conference, March 21-24, 2013.  Dr. Field presented with colleagues, Jered B. Kolbert, and Laura Crothers during a 90 minute presentation on, Whole-School Methods to Address Bullying.  The purpose of the session was to discuss and teach school counselors the elements of effective whole-school approaches to address bullying.  Dr. David Fenell's presentation, Counselors Helping Combat Veterans and Their Families by Doing What We Do Best included description of psychological problems encountered by returning veterans along with several current approaches to help them.  He included how counselors can help veterans and their families using contextual normalization theory, and approach that capitalizes on the core skills of professional counselors. 

Coming in April-Space Career Day of the National Space Symposium

Thursday, April 11th during the 29th National Space Symposium, the Space Foundation will be conducting the 2013 Space Career Day at the International Center of the Broadmoor Hotel. It is open to graduate and undergraduate students enrolled in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) degree programs and transitioning members of the military. This event is the leading source of information regarding current and future career opportunities, internships, industry trends and upcoming workforce needs. If you are interested in more information or wish to register, please click on the link, http://www.nationalspacesymposium.org/education/space-career-day
Space Career Day is limited to the first 300 registrants.

>>2013 Space Career Days Flyer

Reminder: CASPA Job Fair is Here

Put it on your calendar today, March 22, 2013! Caspa Job Fair!! The UCCS College of Education/CASPA Teacher Job Fair registration is now open! The Early Bird cost to attend will be $15 and payment is expected at the time of registration. Early registration closes March 20. It will be held in Berger Hall and the Gallogly Events center at UCCS from 8am to 5pm. Districts who normally participate in this job fair are from the Southern Colorado area, such as Academy 20, Canon City RE-1, Colorado Springs 11, Elizabeth C-1, Falcon 49, Fountain 8, Harrison 2, Pueblo City 60, Pueblo County 70, Widefield 3 and many more!

February 2013

CHS Students Article to be Published

COE Counseling students Beth Brooks, Karen Fiedler, Jayme Waddington, and Katharine Zink recently received notification that their article, Minors’ Rights to Confidentiality, When Parents Want to Know: An Ethical Quandary, has been accepted for inclusion in ACA’s VISTAS 2013, Issue 2. The article will be included as a significant contribution to the ACA VISTAS database and the counseling profession’s body of professional knowledge and resources. As authors for VISTAS, these students received an invitation to attend ACA’s annual VISTAS Contributors’ Reception to be held from 6:00–8:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 21, 2013, in the Hall of Mirrors Ballroom at the Hilton Cincinnati Hotel.

College Receives Grant for Improving Literacy of Young English Learners

The College of Education has received a grant in collaboration with Colorado Springs School District 11 and Harrison School District 2 to develop a professional development program called, Improving Literacy fo Young English Learners: Professional Development for Educators in Southern Colorado. The grant was submitted by three College of Education faculty from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Barbara Frye, associate professor, Angela Bell, assistant professor, and Leslie Grant, associate professor. They will serve as the grant’s principal investigators. Funds for this project were provided by a grant from the Elementary and Secondary Eduation Act 2001, Improving Teacher Quality, Title II Program administered by the Colorado Department of Higher Education. The program is being developed in order to create professional development opportunities for in-service teachers to become better prepared to meet the literacy needs of young English Learners (ELs) in the southern region of Colorado. By providing a sustained program of workshops, discussions, online resources, and an intensive summer institute, along with structured observation sessions, guidance and support will be given to teachers who interact daily with ELs in grades Pre-K through 3, providing ongoing opportunities for them to not only build their knowledge base regarding ELs’ language and literacy development, but also to implement, assess, and reflect on the instructional changes in their classrooms. For additional information about this grant see the Feb. 7 Communique article.

New CSI Members and Poster Competition Winners

The Chi Sigma Iota held their new member induction and research poster competition 1 February 2013. Students presented their research to a packed house. Dr. Joe Wehrman, Dr. Rhonda Williams, and Dr. Jim Saunders judged the competition. The winners of the 1st Place ($250) prize were Brooke Kallstrom and Allison McCoy, 2nd Place ($100) went to Kristin Huber and Jenna McCarty, and 3rd Place ($50) went to Kari Meyers.

CSI Induction and Poster Competition

January 2013

LRF Assistant Professor Ranked on Edu-Scholar Public Presence

Dr. Marcus Winters, Assistant Professor in the Department of Leadership, Research & Foundations, has been recognized on the annual list of the Edu-Scholar Public Presence rankings, which is "designed to recognize those university-based academics who are contributing most substantially to public debates about K-12 and higher education." The author of the list (Rick Hess) calculates an index that takes into account scholarly citations and coverage of one's work in the media. While not an official governmental list, the ranking is pretty well known. Dr. Winters made the cut this year and tied for #111 in the overall ranking of professors across the nation. Hess also posted top 10 rankings by certain categories.
In particular, he ranked only assistant professors, and Dr. Winters ranked #2 in the nation among assistant professors.

Here's the link for the overall rankings:

>>http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/rick_hess_straight_up/RANKINGSNEW.jpg

Here's the link to the list by assistant professors:

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