February 2020 Newsletter
Wheelhouse Announces 2020 Chancellor in Residence and New Dual Enrollment Research
Wheelhouse: The Center for Community College Leadership and Research is excited to welcome Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) Chancellor Francisco Rodriguez as Wheelhouse’s Chancellor in Residence for 2020. While he leads LACCD, Rodriguez will share his time, talents and expertise as a presenter and co-facilitator, with Deborah Travis, at the 2020 Institute on Leadership.
Wheelhouse also recently released new research, in partnership with Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE), that provides the first solid baseline numbers for our state on high school student participation in dual enrollment in the California Community College system. Dual enrollment—a practice in which high school students take college courses while they are still in high school—has multiple benefits for student success in both systems. This report breaks new ground by matching high school and community college datasets to provide a clearer picture of college course-taking among California public high school students and the gaps in access students face today. Read a CalMatters op-ed written by Wheelhouse Executive Director Susanna Cooper and Prof. Michal Kurlaender about the new research, and view the brief and an infographic on our website.
Marcela Cuellar Promoted to Associate Professor
Prof. Marcela
Cuellar was recently promoted to Associate Professor in
the School of Education. With a long list of contributions to the
field of education and the UC Davis community, she has been a
valued faculty member in the School of Education since July 2014.
Her research examines access and equity in higher education,
Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) and emerging HSIs, and
Latinx student success. More specifically, Cuellar explores
Latinx students’ experiences at HSIs and emerging HSIs and how
they are empowered as a result of their educational experiences
during college and beyond. We are excited to congratulate her on
her tenure!
Lee Martin Joins Inaugural Cohort of Community Engaged Learning Faculty Fellows
Professor Lee
Martin joined the inaugural cohort of
the Community
Engaged Learning Faculty Fellows, a program established to
create and improve community-based student learning experiences
that will cultivate and foster a culture of engagement at UC
Davis. The six-month cohort-based program is organized
around monthly meetings and mentorship to support individuals
working to fully integrate this learning approach into existing
courses and new curricular experiences.
The first cohort includes UC Davis faculty from across disciplines—from design and plant sciences to education and medicine. Upon completion of the program, Community Engaged Learning Faculty Fellows are expected to teach their modified or newly designed community engaged course during the 2020–21 academic year and will receive a one-time award of $1,000. Learn more on the UC Davis Public Scholarship and Engagement website.
Barbara Celli, Executive Director of Development and External Relations, Retires
Barbara Celli, Executive Director
of Development and External Relations for the School of
Education, retired from UC Davis on February 8, 2020. Serving
UC Davis for almost 16 years in various development roles, she
led the School of Education development program through a time
of great change. With our new strategic plan as a framework,
Barbara helped to create our first-ever development roadmap to
tell our inspiring story, best align our team resources with
School priorities and fund the School’s bold vision going
forward. We thank her for her service to UC Davis and wish
her all the best!
2020–21 Teaching Credential/Master’s Program Deadline
Do you know someone looking to
start their K-12 teaching career? Our Teaching
Credential/Master’s Program produces teacher leaders
who make a difference in the classroom and beyond. With
hands-on mentoring, a year-long student teaching experience and
job search assistance, our candidates finish the program ready
to teach the diverse students of California.
The deadline to apply to our program is approaching! Our general application deadline is March 1, 2020. Applications submitted between March 2 and April 15 are not guaranteed to be reviewed unless there is space available. We encourage prospective students to join us for our upcoming information session on Wednesday, February 12. Find more information on our website.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Words Take Wing: Linda Sue Park
Words Take
Wing: Honoring Diversity in Children’s Literature, an
annual celebration that gives students the opportunity to hear
from acclaimed authors and illustrators of diverse children’s
literature, is excited to announce that this year’s Celebrated
Children’s Author is New York
Times Bestseller and Newbery Winner Linda Sue
Park. On February 25, 2020, Words Take Wing will host
Park at the UC Davis Mondavi Center as part of
the School Matinee
event series. Park will also be giving a public talk on
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at the McKinley Library, Clunie
Grand Hall, 601 Alhambra Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95817, starting
at 6:30 pm. Admission to this public presentation is free. Find
more information on our
website.
Expanding Equity in Education
Research Speaker Series: Nolan Cabrera and Gina Garcia
The School of Education’s new Expanding Equity in Education Research Speaker Series brings multidisciplinary experts to UC Davis to explore how faculty and students can use their research to shift practices and create more equitable outcomes across the educational field. Join us on Wednesday, February 26, at 5 pm in the AGR Hall, UC Davis Alumni Center as we welcome Nolan Cabrera and Gina Garcia.
Dr. Nolan Cabrera is an award-winning scholar and nationally recognized expert in the areas of racism/anti-racism on college campuses, whiteness and ethnic studies. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona. Cabrera’s book, White Guys on Campus: Racism, White Immunity, and the Myth of “Post-Racial” Higher Education, won the 2019 Outstanding Book Award from the Association for the Study of Higher Education.
Dr. Gina Ann
Garcia is a leading scholar on Hispanic Serving
Institutions and an associate professor in the Department of
Administrative and Policy Studies at the University of
Pittsburgh, specializing in Higher Education and Student
Affairs. She is a scholar activist committed to disrupting the
status quo of postsecondary education by bringing attention to
the ways higher education has historically been committed to
whiteness and regularly reinforces white narratives and white
standards.
This event is free and open to the public, but space is limited. Please RSVP on our website.
Caffeine with the Dean
Our quarterly Caffeine with the Dean event returns later this month! Dean Lauren Lindstrom invites all faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends of the School of Education to join her for coffee and conversation on Tuesday, February 18, from 9:00 am to 10:30 am, in Room 174, School of Education Building. Please direct any questions about this event to Cyn Sengnalivong at cinseng@ucdavis.edu.
CCS Collabinar: Data and Citizen Science
The Center for
Community and Citizen Science (CCS) will be holding
its first Collabinar for 2020 later this month: “Data
Quality and Citizen Science: Critically Analyzing Data Stories
and Gaps.” This interactive event will
feature Lindsay
Poirier, a cultural anthropologist of data cultures,
expertise and infrastructure. Her interactive presentation will
explore what constitutes “quality” data when communities are
engaged in collection and analysis, and how diverse
stakeholders shape data narratives. The second optional hour
will be dedicated to practical project discussions concerning
data quality and citizen science. Participate online or
in-person Tuesday, February 18th, 11:00 am–1:00 pm PST, 1460
Drew Ave, Davis, CA 95616. Find out more and RSVP here.
Recent Research Publications
- Prof. Heidi Ballard co-authored a research paper, “What Do We Know about Young Volunteers? An Exploratory Study of Participation in Zooniverse,” published in the journal Citizen Science: Theory and Practice.
- Prof. Cati de los Ríos published her co-authored article “Literacies of Refuge: ‘Pidiendo Posada’ as Ritual of Justice” in the Journal of Literacy Research.
- Prof. Michal Kurlaender co-authored an article, “Is Early Start a Better Start? Evaluating California State University’s Early Start Remediation Policy,” in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.
- Dean Lauren Lindstrom and Prof. Kevin Gee published “Transitions into Employment: Social Development in Adolescence Societal Contexts” in The Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development.
- Prof. Peter Mundy, former School of Education associate professor Emily Solari, former School of Education postdoctoral researcher Ryan P. Grimm, and alumni Matthew C. Zajic (PhD ’18) and Nancy S. McIntyre (PhD ’15) co-authored the article “Relationships between Reading Profiles and Narrative Writing Abilities in School-Age Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder” in the journal Reading and Writing.
- PhD student Stacy Wittstock co-authored an article,“Teaching with Digital Peer Response: Four Cases of Technology Appropriation, Resistance, and Transformation,” in the journal Research in the Teaching of English.
