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Ryan Miller, assistant professor of higher education, was elected program/pre-conference chair of the Council for the Advancement of Higher Education Programs (CAHEP). CAHEP, a council of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), seeks to enrich the teaching and learning experiences of students and faculty in graduate higher education programs within North America […]

Congratulations to Heather Ramsey, an Ed.D. Student in the Learning, Design and Technology concentration on her new position as the Director of Educational Technology at the Fletcher School. In this role, Heather will work collaboratively with administration and teachers to provide leadership, vision, and day-to-day management of educational technology. Heather will also support teachers through […]

Ryan A. Miller, assistant professor of higher education, is the recipient of the Cato College of Education Early Career Faculty Award. The goal of the award is to honor the extraordinary work of a junior faculty member in the College of Education. Miller directs and teaches in the higher education programs at UNC Charlotte (M.Ed. […]

Dr. Bradley Smith, 2019 graduate of the Ed.D. in Educational Leadership-Higher Education Concentration, is the recipient of the 2020 Legacy for Leadership Award, which is given for the dissertation of the year in the Department of Educational Leadership. Dr. Smith’s winning dissertation is titled: From Early College to the University: A Case Study Exploring First-Semester […]

Stella Kim, Assistant Professor of Educational Research, has been named the founding Co-Chair of a new Special Interest Group in Measurement in Education (SIGIMIE) with the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME). The title of the SIGIMIE is Contemporary Issues in Scaling, Linking, and Equating (SLE), which was proposed by Dr. Kim to provide […]

On Friday, November 1, 2019, the Ed.D. Superintendency cohort, led by Drs. Walter Hart and Jim Watson, visited Raleigh to learn about education finance and policy with state leaders. The visit included a trip to the North Carolina Legislative Building and a meeting with the North Carolina Association of School Administrators, and was followed by […]

Educational Leadership faculty member, Dr. Tracey Benson, recently delivered a series of lectures on his new book, Unconscious Bias in Schools: A Developmental Approach to Exploring Race and Racism, published by Harvard Education Press. Some of the stops on the book tour included Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA), Williams College, and Harvard University.

College Media Association (CMA) has named M.Ed. in Educational Leadership student, Kelly Merges, as the 2019 Distinguished Business Adviser. CMA presented the award at the annual conference in Washington, DC in October. Merges is the assistant director and marketing adviser in Student Niner Media at UNC Charlotte. She has served in this capacity for more […]

Congratulations to Dr. Florence Martin, recipient of the Inaugural Thomas L. Reynolds Leadership Award, which is given for outstanding service as a Graduate Program Director at UNC Charlotte. Dr. Martin has worked with colleagues to revise, lead, and/or create four programs while at UNC Charlotte: the Graduate Certificate, M.Ed., and Ed.D. Concentration in Learning, Design, […]