coe-staff: The Weekly Vol 2 #10

Wed Mar 17 17:57:47 PDT 2021

Dear Faculty and Staff,

Many of us are devoted to three activities this week, recruiting, recruiting, and recruiting. We are trying to continuously improve our recruitment of students, staff, and faculty members by employing new methods and outlets. For example, Lisa Fortin is leading us in hosting a college-wide open house tomorrow evening at 5 pm. All admitted graduate students have been invited to attend. The response has been quite positive, about 100 RSVPs thus far. Your students are hosting breakout rooms for our guests by academic program area, Adam is handling technology, Angel and Kylie will be there to answer questions, Juls and Emily Barker have coordinated publicity, Amanda sent email invitations to students, and the list of collaborators goes on. We will assess the session on Friday and improve the upcoming session we have planned for undergrads. Wish us luck. By the way, these events are intended to supplement, not supplant the great recruiting efforts occurring at the individual faculty, staff, and program level. My hope is that this event can serve as an additional tool for helping our programs recruit students who are weighing attendance at other institutions against the many advantages of attending our COE.

All gratitude to Dianna, who has given us the opportunity to include a full page ad in the April issue of Insight into Diversity (see attached; page 14). We received this opportunity on a short timeline but everyone came together quickly to assemble the ad - Dianna, Juls, and Emily among others. This ad is directed at a national readership of faculty and staff job seekers. Again, we are supplementing the good recruiting work that all of you do.

We have also announced the availability of our Early Intervention (EI)/Early Childhood Special Education Distance Learning Option to prospective students in Singapore and the region (see the Updates and Upcoming announcements below). Emily, Jantina, EI faculty and staff, Kylie, and others worked together to plan this outreach. By the way, EI offers all master's degree courses in the evening for access by working professionals in Oregon and synchronous access by Singapore students in the morning. Kylie fielded the first inquiry in response to the ad from China today.

Also this week, we have hired a part-time student recruiter (.20, or one day per week) who will work out of Bend, La Pine, and Portland for now. Some of you already know Deon Logan because of his prior position as a teaching staff recruiter for the Portland Public Schools. He begins work next week with a busy schedule of introductions to our academic program coordinators, department heads, student services coordinators, etc. Deon is well connected throughout the state and very excited to devote some of his time to helping us recruit students from communities that have not experienced as much outreach from us previously.

Please see additional announcements and accolades to follow. On another topic, the Weekly will be on hiatus next week for spring break. We will resume publication on March 31.

Have a wonderful break!

Randy

Updates and Upcoming:

  *   EI/EC Special Education Curriculum: Our esteemed faculty is now offering our early intervention/early childhood special education program to students across the globe! See the flyer<https://conta.cc/3qZ8B6M> that is being used to recruit students to this accessible program.

  *   SOURCE Voices for Equity: Intent vs Impact: Students of Underrepresented Races, Cultures, and Ethnicities (SOURCE) in the COE is seeking submissions for their Voices for Equity: Intent vs Impact Virtual Art Exhibit. The Exhibit centers on the stories and experiences of individuals who have experienced discrimination, microaggressions, or subtle acts of exclusion based on their identity as part of their journey in pursuit of higher education. More information can be found on their website: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/source/vfe2021/

  *   CSWS Women of Color Books In Print Event: The Division of Equity and Inclusion is hosting an event CSWS Women of Color Project on April 23 at 3:00pm. This event presents a discussion of Indigenous Children's Survivance in Public Schools (Routledge, 2020) by our own Leilani Sabzalian. Guest panelists will include: Meredith McCoy, assistant professor and Anderson Fellow of American Studies and History at Carleton College. Kirby Brown, associate professor of English, Norman H. Brown Faculty Fellow (2019-21), director of Native American Studies at University of Oregon, and author of Stoking the Fire: Nationhood in Cherokee Writing, 1907-1970 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2018). You can register for this event here.<https://uoregon.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkcumgqjsuHdz27rb2Mdyh7JJUXwqvd46R>
Accolades:

  *   We are excited to announce that Anna Cecilia McWhirter, M.Ed., will be joining the HEDCO Clinic team as the David and Nancy Petrone Postdoctoral Fellow in September.  Anna Cecilia will be returning to the academic field after completing her child and adolescent internship in California. She previously completed her doctoral training within the COE School Psychology program under the mentorship of Laura Lee McIntyre. We are delighted to have her join us for continued training as a post-doctoral fellow.

  *   Emily Tanner-Smith, Thomson Professor, is featured in the Around The O article<https://around.uoregon.edu/content/education-professor-uses-meta-analysis-help-improve-lives> describing her background, career, and how she uses meta-analysis to advance her research interests around what makes some young people resilient, how racial and structural inequalities influence adolescents' outcomes, and what programs and policies can be used to promote positive youth development. Great job, Emily!

  *   Congratulations to the College of Education on taking First Place in direct donations to the student food pantry, and First Place in "most improved"! We donated 307.75 pounds of food and saw a 98.91% increase in giving. Thank you to all who donated to this cause, and to Lisa Fortin and Marty Hurst for serving as the COE coordinators for this campaign.

  *   Nancy Nelson, research professor in the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), was featured in this article<https://co.chalkbeat.org/2021/3/15/22332572/dyslexia-screener-pilot-colorado-denver-boulder> on how UO will be leading a five school pilot project in Denver and Boulder, Colorado, which in addition to screening kindergarten through third graders for dyslexia risk aims to improve the quality of core reading instruction and intervention programming using a program developed by CTL; ECRI - Enhanced Core Reading Instruction. Impressive work, Nancy!

  *   Laura Lee McIntyre's work has been featured by the Science Coalition in this Around the O<https://around.uoregon.edu/content/covid-19-added-isolation-among-families-facing-autism?utm_source=immersive&utm_medium=CTAbutton&utm_campaign=coronavirus&utm_content=CTAbutton> article and also in a social media tweet as part of their Women's History Month social content. They draw attention to her NIH funded research on how COVID-19 impacts families of children with developmental disabilities. Way to go, Laura Lee!

  *   Tiffany Brown, Senior Lecturer and Clinical Director in the CFT program, will be serving on a panel this Friday, March 19 from 12pm-1:30pm at the event Falling Behind: Solving Oregon's Addiction Crisis hosted by the City Club of Eugene. More information and a sign up to ask questions at this event can be found here.<https://cityclubofeugene.org/forum/falling-behind-solving-oregons-addiction-crisis/> Thank you, Tiffany, for continuing to engage in this important public education work.

For scheduling, please contact educationdean at uoregon.edu<mailto:educationdean at uoregon.edu> or 541-346-6467.

Designated Reporter: I am required to report any incidents of prohibited discrimination and harassment including sexual violence or sexual harassment that I hear about to the university administration. I will also direct students to resources to help them.
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R.W. Kamphaus, Ph.D. | Professor and Dean
randyk at uoregon.edu<mailto:randyk at uoregon.edu> | 541-346-3405
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