News & Events

 

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:

>>http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/rick_hess_straight_up/ASSISTANT3.png