{"id":21118,"date":"2026-07-20T12:58:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T18:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/?p=21118"},"modified":"2026-07-20T12:58:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T18:58:48","slug":"faculty-and-phd-students-take-part-in-federal-policy-institute-in-washington-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/2026\/07\/20\/faculty-and-phd-students-take-part-in-federal-policy-institute-in-washington-d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty and PhD Students Take Part In Federal Policy Institute in Washington, D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, two PhD students in Early Childhood Policy (Allie Kallman Wegner and Zelalem Kitaw) and two faculty members (Drs. Kristie Kauerz and Cristina Gillanders) took part in a Federal Policy Institute in Washington, DC. \u00a0The course was part of SEHD\u2019s participation in a national network of 17 institutions of higher education across the country that offer advanced degrees in early childhood policy. \u00a0During the four days, students and faculty engaged with national leaders spanning research, policy, and practice \u2014 including senior leaders from Institute for Education Sciences, American Council on Education, National Association for the Education of Young Children, and many others. They also visited the Hill to engage with staffers from both the Senate and House chambers of the U.S. Congress. \u00a0Travel costs were paid for by a generous grant from Early Childhood Policy in Institutions of Higher Education, ECPIHE (Drs. Kristie Kauerz and Diana Schaack, co-PIs).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/2026\/07\/20\/faculty-and-phd-students-take-part-in-federal-policy-institute-in-washington-d-c\/img_9715\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21121\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-21121\" src=\"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/files\/IMG_9715.jpg\" alt=\"Drs. Kauerz and Schaack with two PhD students in Washington, D.C.\" width=\"396\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/files\/IMG_9715.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/files\/IMG_9715-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, two PhD students in Early Childhood Policy (Allie Kallman Wegner and Zelalem Kitaw) and two faculty members (Drs. Kristie Kauerz and Cristina Gillanders) took part in a Federal Policy Institute in Washington, DC. \u00a0The course was part of SEHD\u2019s participation in a national network of 17 institutions of higher education across the country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-house","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21118"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21123,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21118\/revisions\/21123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}