Join our monthly forum where academic faculty from the College of Education share their research and connect. All are encouraged to attend! Lectures are held from noon to 1 p.m. on Zoom.

Dec. 10

• Logan McDermott: “It just depends”: How teachers conceptualize determining accommodations in IEPs

• Daniel Cavanaugh: Pathways to adventure: How helping professionals are trained to provide adventure therapy services

Jan. 20, 2026

• Rachel Satter: Research in Practice: Weaving Together Past, Present, and Future Research

• Jon Iftikar: Racial Subjection in Higher Education: Re-envisioning Racial Identities, Interests, and Inequities

Feb. 23, 2026

• Michael Giamellaro: When Context Is Constructed: Positioning Virtual Learning Environments on the Contextualization Spectrum

• Jenni Conrad: Inquiry, Civic Discourse, and Justice-Oriented Learning

March 11, 2026

• Melinda Knapp: Making Equity Visible: Designing and Studying the Asset-Focused Co-Noticing Tool (ACT)

• Dolly Nguyen: Does the Minority Serving Institution (MSI) Designation Still Matter?

April 16, 2026

• Beth Rankin: The Impact of Undergraduate Trauma-Informed Training on First Year Teachers

• Quincy Clark: Exploring the Impact of Personalized AI-Generated Modeling Activities in a First-Year Engineering Course

May 19, 2026

• Andrew Wood: Liberty, equality, and solidarity: Application of anarchist pedagogy in hierarchical higher education settings

• Arien Muzacz: Lessons from the Edge: Implications of Sexuality Research for Counselors and Educators