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With a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, OSU is also helping more teachers earn their English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) endorsement without having to pay the $10,000 tuition. The grant will also help 80 teachers complete six online courses through the College of Education over 18 months, culminating in the ESOL endorsement and work with community resources to build bridges with families of emergent bilingual students. “Teachers have been asking for resources to teach English learners more effectively,” says Karen Thompson, an assistant professor who is leading TEAMS. “This program will ensure that teachers have the best possible preparation for working with this group of students.”
The Working Students Success Network (WSSN) began in 2014 and involved 19 colleges and state partners in four states around the nation. The WSSN strategy was developed to help low-income students reach financial stability and move up the economic ladder by promoting an innovative framework that strategically integrate three distinct areas in education and employment advancement, income and work supports, and financial services and asset building. Cindy Lenhart, a PhD student in the Science and Math Education program and a senior fellow with Achieving the Dream, co-authored a brief addressing food insecurity among community college students. It is intended to provide insights and strategies both for establishing a food pantry and for integrating that work with a broader set of community college student support services to systematically address their multiple needs. A complete copy of the brief can be found here. Another outcome of the WSSN initiative is a guidebook designed to help colleges redesign and enhance their student support services to address issues related to financial insecurity.
A new analysis of multilingual students’ academic progress by Karen Thompson, Associate Professor of Education, shows that the group’s achievement in reading and math grew substantially between 2003 and 2015, challenging the perception that these students have demonstrated few academic gains in recent years.
OSU lands $1 million grant to improve undergraduate instruction in STEM
We are pleased to announce that the Center for Research on Life Long STEM learning collaborative project with OSU's College of Science and the Division of Undergraduate Education has been awarded $1 million from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Inclusive Excellence Initiative! The goal of the initiative is to improve student engagement in science and help schools become more inclusive of those from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, first-generation students, and working adults with families.
A phenomenological study of community college students’ experiences with mentor teachers
This study by Gloria Crisp, Associate Professor of Education in Adult and Higher Education, and her colleagues, explored the relationships and experiences of community college science and mathematics majors with their mentor teachers and how those experiences influenced their interest in teaching
Why Latin@s Become Greek: Exploring Why Latin@s Join Latino Greek-Letter Organizations
Lucy Arellano, Assistant Professor of Education in Adult and Higher Education has a new publication exploring why Latin@s join Latino fraternities and Latina sororities.
The Role of Mentoring in Leadership Development
The Summer 2018 volume of New Directions for Student Leadership has been published with a chapter co-authored by Gloria Crisp, Associate Professor, and Kelly Alvarado-Young, PhD student in Adult and Higher Education, which explores "the role of mentoring in facilitating leadership development for students throughout the educational pipeline."
