coe-staff: The Weekly Vol. 3 #11

Wed Apr 20 16:18:31 PDT 2022

Dear Faculty and Staff,

This weekly update is full of updates, announcements, and accolades. I encourage you to read though these updates, congratulate your fellow colleagues and students who have received honors, and participate in our college community through your participation in events. I personally want to thank those of you who attended our COE faculty/staff meeting on Friday (both in-person and online) and look forward to your engagement in upcoming activities. We are better, stronger, and more inclusive when we have your voices represented in the conversations. If I haven’t had a chance to meet you or hear from you, I look forward to crossing paths.

Some of you are aware that the university is conducting its first ever campus-wide workplace climate survey of employees from April 11 - 29. This is an important initiative designed to measure and improve our workplace culture. The survey will establish a baseline for understanding our present climate, set a benchmark against which to measure change over time, help shape current and future institutional priorities, and inform action plans to enhance and improve the climate within our College of Education and at the university as a whole. The survey is being administered by Gallup. Please take 15-20 min and complete the survey by April 29, 2022. Your input will help make the findings more representative and complete.

Thanks all.

Warmly,
Laura Lee

Updates and Upcoming:

  *   COE Dean’s Blog: The College of Education Dean's blog<https://blogs.uoregon.edu/collegeofeducationdean> has been revamped. On the blog you can find information about Dean McIntyre, updates and upcoming events, links to all Dean’s social sites, past Weekly and Monthly issues, and past archived messaging by Dean Kamphaus. The past Weekly and Monthly issues are password protected and you can access them by using the password: COEWeekly.

  *   Ithaka Survey for Faculty and Graduate Students: Now through the end of May, the UO Libraries, in partnership with the Division of Graduate Studies and the national research firm Ithaka S+R, will be conducting a research practices survey of our faculty members and graduate students in most programs. This survey will not go to staff, undergraduate students, or Law affiliates. The aim of the survey is to understand, in this new era of hybrid teaching and research, how faculty and graduate students access library resources, conduct research and scholarly inquiry, engage in teaching practices, and perceive UO Libraries services, collections, and facilities. No personally identifiable data will be collected, and the aggregated results will be shared widely.  Each faculty member and graduate student will get a personal invitation to their UO email address. The survey should only take 15 to 20 minutes. The information collected from these two key constituent groups will directly inform plans to modify and develop new services to support teaching, research, and creative inquiry across disciplines. More information about the surveys can be found at https://researchguides.uoregon.edu/librarysurvey/about.

  *   2022 Leona Tyler Memorial Visiting Professor in Psychology: Dr. Mims: There is an upcoming Leona Tyler lecture with Dr. Lauren Mims<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/www.laurenmims.com/__;!!C5qS4YX3!C8fMftYxeVQJx3CkoUWZhJu9CgCLF7KdkYwKW2QR3hpoCl3n4pytUVS2cmaCHzFbEkZRtcBVjU7xNuWYI4pRrUI$> (see attached and bio below) on May 20th from 3:30-5pm. The title of her talk will be “We are the Dreamkeepers:  Appling the BlackCreate Framework to Support Brilliant Black Girls”. To RSVP for this lecture and/or to request a 1:1 or group meeting, please complete the survey here:  https://oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bJHeGfatIriQKV0<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bJHeGfatIriQKV0__;!!C5qS4YX3!C8fMftYxeVQJx3CkoUWZhJu9CgCLF7KdkYwKW2QR3hpoCl3n4pytUVS2cmaCHzFbEkZRtcBVjU7xNuWYoW3tJP0$>

Lauren C. Mims, PhD is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at Ball State University, and an incoming assistant professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at NYU. She earned her doctorate in Educational Psychology: Applied Developmental Science and her B.A. in English and Psychology from the University of Virginia in 2019 and 2012, respectively. She earned her M.A. in Child Development with a concentration in Clinical Developmental Health from Tufts University in 2014.

Dr. Mims was formerly Assistant Director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans during the Obama Administration. She was a member of the White House Council on Women and Girls, the U.S. Department of Education Policy Committee, the U.S. Department of Education Socioeconomic Diversity Working Group, as well as a member of First Lady Michelle Obama's Reach Higher Working Group. Lauren developed and hosted events such as the AfAmWomenLead Student Summit to Support Black Girls, a summit to support African American students with disabilities, and reading parties for youth to share resources, foster creativity and nurture a love of learning.

Broadly, the ultimate goal of Dr. Mims' research is to “freedom dream” (Kelley, 2002) with Black children and their families, and then use that brilliance to guide the development of new research, policies, practices, and narratives!

  *   Reimagining Education Research Infrastructure reception at AERA: For those attending AERA in person this year, there will be a reception focusing on “Reimagining Education Research Infrastructure”, hosted by AERA alongside InnovateEDU, Spencer Foundation, Digital Promise, Education Trust, and others. More details are available in the online program here: https://tinyurl.com/yym76gvr<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/tinyurl.com/yym76gvr__;!!C5qS4YX3!Eh5Shr5johRQXGT8gbEYA74vSbGUiSIuLOyF8To-wsrNtYNSQdNco7XvHDD_V-7Y_akfIC3YHG-AVhJHjg$>. This will be held on Sunday, April 24, 6:00-8:00 pm, in the Seaview Restaurant in the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego. This may be of particular interest to IES-funded Oregon faculty attending the Annual Meeting as an informal opportunity to connect. An invitation graphic is attached and RSVPs can be made here<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfADb8ZkgWpNxc9nCKrkcd6-VsTPcYUml01k5L8GN1SB4H5ug/viewform__;!!C5qS4YX3!Eh5Shr5johRQXGT8gbEYA74vSbGUiSIuLOyF8To-wsrNtYNSQdNco7XvHDD_V-7Y_akfIC3YHG9PovjyiQ$>.

  *   Faculty and Staff Meeting Recording posted: The April 15th COE Faculty and Staff meeting materials and recording are now posted to the Governance site: https://coedocs.uoregon.edu/display/governance/Faculty+and+Staff+Meetings

Reminders:

  *   Ballmer Institute Listening Session for the College of Education: The Ballmer Institute team would like to invite the COE faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students to a collaborative listening session on Friday, April 22nd at 3pm via zoom (link below). Their goal is to offer accurate and up-to-date information on the Institute’s progress, with an opportunity for open dialogue, questions, and feedback. The session will be 45 minutes – including a presentation and Q&A period. If you would like to submit questions or comments ahead of time, please use this Qualtrics Survey<https://oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ezeR80s5errGaJo> by Thursday, April 21st at 5pm. The session will be recorded for those unable to attend.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/91495337881<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/uoregon.zoom.us/j/91495337881__;!!C5qS4YX3!QuEZ7QnWgqk7VdYC2K3h9VHBB-E1Sjx0i4meC-_6i41jzB4BHwwUi1N-bg15GONzDA$>
Meeting ID: 914 9533 7881

Accolades:

  *   Please take a moment to recognize your colleagues who reached a major work anniversary milestone during the period from January to March 2022. To the honorees, thank you for your commitment and for being central to helping us achieve our mission!

     *   Global Education Administration
Dane Ramshaw, CTO Global & Online Education (10 years)

     *   Center for Equity Promotion
Sandra Epple, Administration & School Data Coordinator (10 years)
Betsy Ruth, Bilingual Program Manager (10 years)

     *   Oregon Education Science Lab
Cressa Perloff, Project Coordinator ECS (5 years)

     *   intoCareers

Jeremy Bryant-Berg, Analyst Programmer 1 (5 years)

     *   Early Childhood CARES

Tamera Mason, Early Childhood Assistant (15 years)

  *   The National Down Syndrome Congress will honor the University of Oregon for its exemplary College of Education Special Education Program. The official event to recognize the four 2022 honorees will be held on September 1, 2022, at the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta, GA.  The evening’s honorees include Clemson University, the University of Georgia, and the Georgia Institute of Technology, for their postsecondary programs for individuals with intellectual disability and the top-ranked special education teachers program at the University of Oregon.  Congratulations, and thank you for your work to ensure that individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities have quality educators.

  *   The NWPBIS Network presents yearly awards to individuals who have made significant contributions to the field of PBIS. It is a great honor to share that the NWPBIS Network board of directors has unanimously decided to present a Lifetime Achievement Award to Brigid Flannery for excellent, career-long, contributions to PBIS, and education.

  *   APBS Student Poster Award (John Gallo and Sean Austin were the lead authors of posters that received APBS Student Poster Awards for the best student posters at the 19th Annual APBS Conference in San Diego CA on April 14, 2022)
     *   “Positive Supports in Schools for Students Who Identify as LGBTQ+” by John Gallo, Derek Bueffel, James Whisenhunt, Caitlin Wild, and Geovanna Rodriguez
     *   “The Relationship between PBIS Implementation and Substance Abuse Across Years and Tiers” by Sean Austin and John Seeley

  *   SPECS Department Head, Beth Harn, has informed me of a sad loss in our community. In Beth’s words, “Dr. Barbara Bateman, professor emeritus and alumna of the Special Education program here at the University of Oregon, passed away last Friday morning (April 15, 2022) at her home in Creswell, OR. As a native Oregonian, she was a trailblazer and leader in special education in terms of both assessment and legal aspects in protecting and supporting students with disabilities. After teaching students with disabilities for years, she obtained her PhD at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champlain, working with Dr. Sam Kirk. Their efforts created the term and assessment practices to identifying students with learning disabilities. She returned to Oregon to pursue her law degree here at the University, completing it in 1976. While in law school and after, she was influential in drafting the initial Public Law 94-142 that provided guidance, policy, and protections to students and families with disabilities (e.g., Individuals with Disabilities and Education Act; IDEA). Her scholarly efforts were so prolific and important in these early years of special education policy implementation, but many will point to her work in guiding the development of effective Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) goals as being the most influential. Her most widely read book, "Better IEPs: How to Develop Legally Correct and Educationally Useful Programs" is still used across our nation today as her son David F. Bateman continues the work related to special education law and assessment practices. Dr. Barbara Bateman worked in the Special Education program from 1966-94 where she taught classes in school psychology and special education related to educational assessment, law in special education, test and measurement and reading methods. She received numerous honors including being named a Fellow in the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities as well as the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) J.E. Wallace Wallin Special Education Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. Her advocacy for the children and families with disabilities was powerful and will surely be missed. Her passion is still infused in the Special Education program and the COE’s commitment to improving educational systems to enhance the lives of children families. “

Job Postings:

  *   Research Analyst 1<https://careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/529302/research-analyst-1>: The Oregon Career Information System (Oregon CIS) is searching for a permanent, full-time Research Analyst 1 to collect and disseminate information, provide customer services for sites as they use the CIS system, and support the internal work of the department.

  *   Database Administrator<https://careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/529283/database-administrator>: PBISApps, a multidisciplinary team within the Educational and Community Supports (ECS) research unit in the University of Oregon’s College of Education, is a leader in providing practical solutions for common educational issues. The purpose of the Database Administrator (DBA) is to work with our operations team to ensure the uninterrupted operation of ECS’s high-performance, critical database systems.

  *   Office Specialist 1<https://careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/529281/office-specialist-1>: Early Childhood CARES is looking for an Office Specialist to provide clerical and administrative support. As a member of the support team, this position will serve as an integral part of our records management team performing a wide variety of office functions including reception duties.

  *   Administrative Program Assistant<https://careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/529272/administrative-program-assistant>: Early Childhood CARES is looking for a detail-oriented Administrative Assistant to perform Human Resources functions including onboarding and training support. This position coordinates HR procedures, manages transactions through the University talent management software (MyTrack) and performs other various administrative duties in support of a growing early childhood special education program.

  *   Lecturer/Senior Lecturer and Practicum Coordinator in Early Intervention and Early Childhood Special Education<https://careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/529277/lecturersenior-lecturer-and-practicum-coordinator-in-early-intervention-and-early-childhood-special-education>: This position will provide instruction and academic support to graduate-level students in the College of Education, primarily in the Early Intervention/Early Childhood Special Education Master’s program including HyFlex delivery of core program courses (e.g., Early intervention Methods) as well as clinical supervision.

Laura Lee McIntyre | Interim Dean & Castle-McIntosh-Knight Professor (she/her)
University of Oregon | College of Education
230 Hedco Education Building | Eugene, OR 97403-1215
llmcinty at uoregon.edu<mailto:email at uoregon.edu> |  https://education.uoregon.edu
[cid:image002.png at 01D854D2.4621B870]<https://www.uoregon.edu/>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.uoregon.edu/pipermail/coe-staff/attachments/20220420/b43b1ca3/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image002.png
Type: image/png
Size: 8308 bytes
Desc: image002.png
URL: <http://lists.uoregon.edu/pipermail/coe-staff/attachments/20220420/b43b1ca3/attachment-0002.png>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Poster_TylerLecture_Mims_2022.pdf
Type: application/pdf
Size: 309255 bytes
Desc: Poster_TylerLecture_Mims_2022.pdf
URL: <http://lists.uoregon.edu/pipermail/coe-staff/attachments/20220420/b43b1ca3/attachment-0001.pdf>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: AERA 2022 Invitation (2).png
Type: image/png
Size: 291439 bytes
Desc: AERA 2022 Invitation (2).png
URL: <http://lists.uoregon.edu/pipermail/coe-staff/attachments/20220420/b43b1ca3/attachment-0003.png>