Accomplishments: Department of Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education
Kenyon Lee Whitman (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) recently co-authored a report titled, "Understanding Belongingness, Support, and Perseverance: An Exploratory Study of the Educational Experiences of Foster Youth in California," with colleagues from UCLA's Center for the Transformation of Schools.
Kenyon Lee Whitman (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published a paper titled, ""It's Not About Blood, It's About Who Shows Up for Me": Black College-going Foster Youth Disrupting Family Privilege and Creating Chosen Family Networks," with co-author Kizzy Lopez in the Journal of College Student Development.
Megan R. Griffard and Jacob D. Skousen (both Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published the book chapter "Leading Through Climate Disasters and Environmental Injustice: Past, Present, and Future" in the latest anthology in the series, Transforming Education through Critical Leadership, Policy, and Practice. In their…
Undergraduate Sport Leadership & Management Certificate students Jessica Sobel, Ryan Gilder, Gabriella Ghasserani, and Isabel Ritchie placed second in the Case Cup Competition at the Annual Commission of Sport Management Accreditation (COSMA) National Conference. Michelle Coyner (Intercollegiate & Professional Sport Management; Educational…
Assistant Professor Megan Griffard (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education), Ph.D., and doctoral student Monica Ceja-Rodriguez recently published the article, "Managing in a Storm of Chaos: The Ecology of School Principals’ Crisis Management," in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (EEPA). The article examines…
Tina Vo (Teaching and Learning) and Holmes Scholar and doctoral candidate Mayra Marquez-Mendez (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) attended the 2025 Association for Science Teacher Education Conference (ASTE). They presented their study titled “Investigating the Connection between Science Curriculum and…
Holmes scholar and doctoral candidate Mayra Marquez-Mendez (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and Tina Vo (Teaching and Learning) recently presented their research at the 2025 Association for Science Teacher Education Conference ASTE. Their paper, "Scripted Curriculum, Unscripted Support: Understanding…
Juanita K. Hinojosa (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) was selected as the recipient of NASPA's Latinx/a/o Knowledge Community 2025 Outstanding Doctoral Student Award.
Doctoral candidate Monica Hernandez-Johnson and Lisa Bendixen (both Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) have been published in the Journal of Mixed Methods Research.
Hernández-Johnson, M. J., & Bendixen, L. D. (2024). Critical Mixed Methods: The Imperative for Critical Inquiry and Reflexivity in Research. Journal of…
Vuk Celic and Dan Wright (both Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published research in Applied Cognitive Psychology shows that those in both evaluative and managerial low power conditions learned more from those in the corresponding high power conditions, than the opposite. The research was done in an…
Ung-Sang Lee (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) has published a manuscript titled, "Activating/Mobilizing Intersectional Assets: Racial Justice-Focused School Leadership Systems That Center Students of Color and Privilege Their Interests," in Education Sciences.
Vuk Celic and Dan Wright (both Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published research on how the power relationships among people influence how much they learn from each other in Applied Cognitive Psychology.