Category: Colleagues
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Evaluation Center’s Article Selected as Editors’ Choice by the Journal Evaluation and Program Planning
The Evaluation Center’s article was selected as “Editors’ Choice” by the journal Evaluation and Program Planning. Christine Velez led the writing team that included Bridget Nuechterlein and Susan Connors from The Evaluation Center and faculty from the School of Public Health and the Departments of Integrative Biology and Civil Engineering. Their paper is entitled “Application…
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Chaya Abrams Published in the Journal of Trauma Studies in Education
Ancestral Bonding: Autoethnography of a Holocaust Granddaughter The severity of historical trauma (HT) endured by Jews is central in the historiography of the Holocaust and affects survivors, descendants, and the Jewish people. Studies of transgenerational trauma transmission in descendants portray both psychopathological and positive outcomes, yet trauma trends understood from research of the second generation…
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Ritu Chopra Quoted in Chalkbeat Chicago Article about the Paraprofessional and School Support Staff Pay
‘A glaring concern’: Chicago’s support staff substitute pool stretched thin amid pandemic May 25, 2022 — This school year has trained a spotlight on a dearth of substitute teachers in Chicago and beyond. Amid increasingly stressful work and relatively low pay, many paraprofessionals and other school support staff members have been swept up in the…
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ThinqStudio’s Unconference: Tiny Innovations and Rejuvenations featured in CU Denver’s Newsroom
Tiny Innovations and Rejuvenations Grand, sometimes heroic, responses to two years of COVID-driven disruptions made it possible to serve CU Denver’s students and communities in extraordinary ways. For a much-needed change of scale, on April 15, ThinqStudio’s annual Unconference focused on “Tiny Innovations and Rejuvenations.” After these challenging years, CU Denver’s dedicated educators, staff, and administrators relished the…
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Dr. Margarita Bianco Selected to Receive the 2022-23 TIAA Chancellor’s Urban Engaged Scholars Award
CU Denver CityCenter Announces 2022-23 TIAA Chancellor’s Urban Engaged Scholars Bianco’s Pathways2Teaching program helps to recruit and retain teachers of color to create spaces of educational equity. Additionally, Bianco researches strategies to create Grow Your Own teacher programs for high school students of color in urban and rural communities. See the full article on CU…
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Rene Galindo and his Students Featured in CU Denver News for Leading Social-Emotional Peer Dialogues During the Pandemic
Student-Led ‘Social-Emotional Peer Dialogues’ Provide Support During the Pandemic When CU Denver moved operations to remote status in March 2020 to protect the safety of the campus community, two students used their personal experiences in navigating a global pandemic to create a safe space for connection and solace for their peers. Karely Nava Chavez, who…
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Remi Kalir in WNDB: “This School Librarian Fought LGBTQ+ Book Censorship”
Writing for We Need Diverse Books, Remi Kalir interviewed a school librarian who successful fought against book censorship: “Today we’re honored to welcome a school librarian, who requested anonymity, to the WNDB blog to talk about her students reading the middle grade book Melissa by Alex Gino, their participation in #SharpieActivism, and a subsequent attempt…
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Dr. Robin Brandehoff Received a Dissertation of the Year Award at AERA
Congratulations to Dr. Robin Brandehoff! She received a Dissertation of the Year award at the 2022 AERA Annual Meeting in San Diego. AERA’s Mentorship and Mentoring Practices SIG honored her doctoral dissertation titled “The Ripple Effect of Mentorship: A cross-case analysis of five, rural, Latinx youth.”
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Here’s what being ‘super, super, super lucky’ looks like in Denver’s childcare crisis
Sure, childcare-center waitlists are rough, and tuition is like a second mortgage. But at least Liliana Flores Amaro and her family have a home they can afford and neighborhood support. Read the full article on Denverite
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Dennis DeBay Recognized as an Open Education Resources Champion
The Office of Academic Affairs and the Open CU Steering Team celebrated the 2022 Open Educational Resources (OER) Champion Award on April 14. The award celebrates educators – one from each of the four CU campuses – who contribute to the open educational movement, increase campus and system awareness of OER, and/or galvanize interest in…