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AERA Education Research Service Projects Program

Special Call for Proposals Deadline: August, 31, 2020 The American Educational Research Association is currently accepting proposals for a special cycle of Education Research Service Projects (ERSP) initiative grants to address the dual pandemics facing education and learning in formal and informal contexts: COVID-19 and systemic racism. AERA’s Education Research Service Projects initiative encourages education researchers to offer their pro bono expertise to educational organizations, institutions, or other community groups that have identified and expressed a need for such assistance. The ERSP initiative provides small grants ranging from $1,000 to $5,000 to defray direct costs involved in these projects. Special Call for Projects Focusing on the COVID-19 and Systemic Racism Pandemics The COVID-19 pandemic has shuttered the physical places where education formally takes place in the United States and across the globe, from childcare through graduate education. The broad impact of school closures on student well-being and academic outcomes as well as uncertainties about what education will look like in the months ahead are introducing new challenges and raising new questions for educators, institutions, and families related to the safe, effective and equitable provision of education at all levels. Simultaneously, educators and students are also facing the persistent reality of systemic racism in the United States. The recent murder of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis and the public outcry highlighting longstanding inequities in our education system have prompted many schools and other organizations to look more closely at the manifestations and implications of systemic racism. In the current context, there are increasing opportunities for education researchers to leverage their expertise in ways that are relevant to addressing these pandemics at the local level and serve the public good. As part of AERA’s efforts to respond to the impact of these dual pandemics, a special call for Education Research Service Projects invites proposals that address through research service: COVID-19, systemic racism, or the intersection of the two. Education researchers are encouraged to submit proposals to offer their expertise, on a pro-bono basis, to address issues and questions related to these pandemics that educational entities or settings (e.g., childcare supports or services, schools, school systems, colleges and universities, community organizations) are currently facing. The special call builds upon the Education Research Service Project Initiative’s broad aim to engender a culture of service that is responsive to significant needs at the local level and to support education researchers in using their skills and expertise to serve the public good. The proposal deadline is Monday, August 31, 2020. For more information, please see the Special Call and Guidelines. If you have questions about the special call or the ERSP program, email [email protected].

Ecuador Higher Education Study Tour

Ecuador Higher Education Study Tour
Dates: June 1 - June 11, 2016
Faculty Leader: Dr. Raul Leon (Eastern Michigan University)
Early Bird Registration: March 1, 2016

Program Cost: Faculty and Administrators (2,500) / Graduate Students ($2,300)

We are very pleased to announce the "Ecuador Higher Education Study Tour" for Summer 2016. We had a very successful program last year with participants that included junior and senior faculty, administrators, and graduate students from several institutions across the U.S.. During the tour, we learned about higher education, student affairs, public policy and the educational system in Ecuador. We also had the opportunity to visit public and private secondary and post-secondary institutions. In addition, we interacted with local faculty, administrators, students, and government officials.

This academic tour will take place in Quito, the country's capital, home to over 30 institutions of higher education. This tour will provide students, administrators, and faculty, with the opportunity to examine higher education in Ecuador during a time of unprecedented reform, which has drawn attention from the region as Ecuador seeks to transform the nature of their educational system. Quito stands as one of the oldest cities in Latin America, with the best preserved colonial center in the world. Today, our host city continues to gather international attention as a world class destination.

Once again, we are hoping to have a strong student affairs representation from across the country in the tour. Dr. Leon is an Associate Professor of Higher Education at Eastern Michigan University. He was born and raised in Ecuador and will lead the study tour. Please contact Dr. Leon directly at [email protected] for more details.

**We are also very pleased to continue to support participants with scholarships ($300 award) towards to the total cost of the study tour.  Master’s and doctoral students are eligible to apply for this scholarship

The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

Please see below for a message from the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans:

Greetings from The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. Our graduate Fellowship provides up to $90,000 in support for immigrants and children of immigrants who are pursuing graduate school in any field and at any institution in the United States. 

I'm writing to let you know that our new application is now open and available on our website, where you can also find our full eligibility requirements: pdsoros.org. If you know of a child of immigrants, or someone who is a DACA recipient, green card holder or a naturalized citizen who is pursuing graduate school, we would very much appreciate it if you would forward this e-mail to them. The application deadline is November 1, 2015.

 

AERA Division J Updates and Announcements

Please see below for important announcements from AERA Division J:

NEW! ON THE AERA DIVISION J BLOG, A Community of Higher Ed Scholars

This summer, Division J members will be sharing what they’re reading on the blog. Thanks to Julia Colyar for our first post on Ryan Craig’s College Disrupted. 

The blog, A Community of Higher Ed Scholars, accepts submissions on an ongoing basis. All AERA Division J members are encouraged to submit original manuscripts for consideration. Submission guidelines can be found online at http://aeradivisionj.blogspot.com/p/aera-j-blog-submission-guidelines-posts.html.

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Call for Proposals

2015-2016 Paul P. Fidler Research Grant

The National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition invites applications for the 2015-2016 Paul P. Fidler Research Grant. The Paul P. Fidler Research Grant is designed to encourage the development and dissemination of knowledge to improve the experiences of college students in transition.

With an award package that includes a stipend, travel to two national conferences, a presentation at a national conference, and priority consideration for publication, the Paul P. Fidler Research Grant supports and promotes research with the potential to have a national impact on student success. The Center invites applicants to submit proposals for research projects addressing a variety of topics, which may include underrepresented student populations, community colleges, advising, transfer and articulation, career development, and other issues related to college student transitions.

COMPREHENSIVE AWARD PACKAGE

• Stipend of $5,000
• Travel to the 22nd National Conference on Students in Transition, October 2015, in Baltimore, Maryland, at which the award will be presented
• Announcement and recognition at the 22nd National Conference on Students in Transition
• Travel to the 23rd National Conference on Students in Transition, October 2016, at which the research findings will be reported
• Announcement on the National Resource Center webpage, listservs, and print publications
• Priority consideration for publication by the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition

APPLICATION AND SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Grant submission officially opens on April 1, 2015. The application form may be accessed at online and must be submitted electronically using the online form by 11:59 PM Eastern Time, July 1, 2015.

Pennsylvania Educational Research Association Annual Meeting

The Pennsylvania Educational Research Association will hold it's annual meeting on October 1 in Philadelphia.  

 Below are the links for the calls for proposals for graduate students:

https://magic.piktochart.com/output/6438578-pera-graduate-student-session

 and for everyone else:

https://magic.piktochart.com/output/6226201-pera-call-for-proposals

You are encouraged to submit your work whether you do or not you plan to attend the conference.

7th Annual Graduate Research Symposium

Dear students,

The Graduate Student Government (GSG) of USC is hosting the 7th Annual Graduate Research Symposium;  the symposium is offered to all graduate students at USC.

In order to participate, please submit an abstract (300 words) by Wednesday February 18, 2015 to [email protected]. 

Please see attached flier image for more information: View this photo

For more information, check out the USC GSG website: http://uscgsggrs.tumblr.com 

 

AERA announcement: Ecuador Higher Education Study Tour

This announcement was sent from AERA--please note that this is not a Rossier sponsored trip.

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Ecuador Higher Education Study Tour

Dates: June 3 - June 13, 2015

Faculty Leader: Dr. Raul Leon (Eastern Michigan University)

Early Bird Registration: March 1, 2015

Program Cost: Faculty and Administrators (2,500) / Graduate Students ($2,300)

We are very pleased to announce the "Ecuador Higher Education Study Tour" for Summer 2015. We had a very successful program last year with participants that included junior and senior faculty, administrators, and graduate students from across the U.S.. During the tour, we learned about higher education, student affairs, and the educational system in Ecuador. We had the opportunity to visit public and private secondary and post-secondary institutions. In addition, we developed some good relationships with local faculty, administrators, students, and government officials.

This academic tour will take place in Quito, the country's capital, home to over 30 institutions of higher education. This tour will provide students, administrators, and faculty, with the opportunity to examine higher education in Ecuador during a time of unprecedented reform, which has drawn attention from the region as Ecuador seeks to transform the nature of their educational system. Quito stands as one of the oldest cities in Latin America, with the best preserved colonial center in the world. Today, our host city continues to gather international attention as a world class destination.

Last year, many of you shared this information with faculty, administrators, and students from local and state higher education and student affairs organizations. Once again, we are hoping to have a strong student affairs representation from across the country in the tour.

Dr. Leon is an Assistant Professor of Leadership and Counseling at Eastern Michigan University. He was born and raised in Ecuador and will lead the study tour. Please contact Dr. Leon directly at [email protected] for more details.

Call for Proposals: Building and Maintaining Collaborative Communities: Schools, University, and Community Organizations for Information Age Publishing

Call for Proposals

Building and Maintaining Collaborative Communities: Schools, University, and Community Organizations for Information Age Publishing

Judith J. Slater, Ruth Ravid, and R. Martin Reardon are pleased to issue a call for proposals for a new edited volume titled Building and Maintaining Collaborative Communities: Schools, University, and Community Organizations for Information Age Publishing.

This new volume seeks to explore and make explicit the tacit understandings that underpin the interaction and leadership for educational change among the three vertices of the university-school-community triad.  The aim is to further understand how the collaborative endeavor can be advanced, and the conditions under which the goals and objectives of each of the collaborative partners can be reached. An enhanced understanding of the complexities of the resultant communities that lie at the heart of the collaborative context will sharpen the focus on serving the needs of children and families who deserve to have their educational prospects enhanced.

Slater and Ravid’s Collaboration in Education (2010) developed a model that depicts and analyses the notion that although sharing similar goals, universities and schools have different structures and little permeability among and between their structures, and they operate according to bureaucratic rules and regulations that delimit their collaboration. The meme of operation of each organization dictates the way each thinks and operates and limits the ability to share power and work together. There is an overriding structural component to every organization that establishes modes of operation that insulates them from other organizations even if they share goals.  

Based on this seminal work and the global examples provided in the volume, there is the possibility to manage change and collaborate successfully if participants understand what the limitations of each level of collaboration entails. The Slater Matrix (Slater & Ravid, 2010) allowed contributors to analyze their collaborative project according to criteria of complexity in expectation that at the higher levels of the matrix there will be systemic change and that each organization will have made adjustments that allow them to reach out in future projects to use the talent, resources, and trust established to make future collaborations possible, effective and frequent.

This new volume expands on the Slater Matrix (Slater & Ravid, 2010) criteria of:

1.         Purpose

2.         Resources

3.         Mutuality

4.         Resistance to change

5.         Positives

6.         Limitations

The addition unique to this volume is that of community and it acknowledges that school-university collaborations are situated in specific national, political, and social contexts which become increasingly salient as schools face issues that are more global in scope. 

The first issue is the question of student competitiveness in the world, second are questions of limited resources both monetary and personnel, and third are issues of leadership in managing change so that collaboration is a possibility.

Acknowledging community as a third partner in the analysis and discussion of projects that involve all three organizations (universities, schools, and community) adds depth to the complexity of analysis. Defining what is meant by community itself is two pronged. One prong references the public, governmental agencies (local, state, and federal) that intersect with schools and universities. The second prong refers to the private interests and foundations that competitively fund specific initiatives in schools in light of the increase of charter schools and for profit organizations running schools.

Public community organizations include those that are directly funded by local, state, and federal agencies that act as overseers of the rules and regulations that govern each. There are union components, political implications, and chains of command that delimit such organization’s scope of operation, and their ability to effectively deal with their mandates and extend their realms of influence and enforcement. There is a multiplicity of agencies that may or may not collaborate among themselves. Further, agencies are vulnerable to reductions in funding or issues that result in their falling out of favor. 

Private community organizations are dependent on donations and funding from foundations that is both competitive and issue driven (for example the Gates Foundation).  Each competes, often with each other, for limited resources and funds. Many private community organizations are governed by a board whose members represent special interests that may be at odds with potential collaborating organizations. They also can rely on volunteers or paid employees whose personal agendas (perhaps inadvertently) filter organizational policies even as they are implemented.

Requirements for possible inclusion in the volume are a submission of intent and a brief opening statement describing the context of the collaboration that includes university, school and community involvement in the project. All three organizations must be evident as a partner. This should be followed by a brief analysis based on the six criteria:

1.         Purpose

2.         Resources

3.         Mutuality

4.         Resistance to change

5.         Positives

6.         Limitations

The entire submission for inclusion should not exceed FIVE double-spaced pages.

Deadline for consideration is March 1, 2015

Please direct inquiries and send all proposals to each of the three editors listed below. Proposals will be evaluated collectively according to the criteria of inclusion of all three elements.

Judith J. Slater, Professor Emeritus, Florida International University

[email protected]

Ruth Ravid, Professor Emeritus, National-Louis University

[email protected]

R. Martin Reardon, Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Leadership

[email protected]

 

 

AERA Division K - T.E.A.C.H. Pre-Conference Seminar

Becoming an exemplary teacher educator does not happen by chance nor as a spontaneous outgrowth of becoming a well-trained researcher.

Instead, it requires deliberate attention to content, curriculum theory, learning and developmental theory, assessment, and andragogy.

Division K: Teaching and Teacher Education has designed this pre-conference seminar to provide a productive space for advanced graduate students to hone their ability to integrate instructional design and practice with an ability to effectively and creatively teach for equity and social justice. The T.E.A.C.H. Pre-Conference Seminar will take place Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. and Thursday, April 16, 2015 from 8:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. All content areas, pedagogical stances, and instructional approaches are welcome.

 

Application materials should be submitted to Dr. Kimberly White-Smith at [email protected] no later than January 23, 2015 at 11:59 pm EST. Application is available here:  Download 2015 Div K TEACH Seminar Application FINAL

Selected applicants will be notified by February 16, 2015. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Use “Division K: T.E.A.C.H.” as the subject of your email message. 

Scholarship Opportunity - Rotary Global Grant

Rotary Global Grant

USC Deadline: January 16

Rotary supports international humanitarian activities and graduate study with sustainable high-impact outcomes in one or more of the six areas of focus:  Peace and conflict prevention, Disease prevention and treatment, Water and sanitation, Maternal and child health, Basic education and literacy, Economic and community development.  http://portal.clubrunner.ca/50010/SitePage/scholars

 

For more information about eligibility and how to apply, please contact the Office of Academic & International Felllowships at [email protected]