New
Department:
Organizational
Leadership, Policy,
and Development
Effective July 1, 2009, a
new department has been created
that integrates the business and
marketing education, human
resource development and adult
education, and comprehensive
WHRE programs from the
Department of
Work and Human Resource
Education (WHRE) into the
department formerly known as
Educational Policy and
Administration (EdPA). The
name of this new department is
Organizational Leadership,
Policy, and Development (OLPD).
It will offer exciting
opportunities for collaboration
and interdisciplinary education
and research. Click
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Graduate student awards, 2007-08
Tom Delaney (Ph.D. student, educational administration): Corcoran
Research Travel Award.
Peggy DeLapp (Ph.D. student, educational administration) has
been named a SIFEPP Conference Fellow and will participate in the conference titled
The States’ Impact on Federal Education Policy: New Perspectives in Research and
the Historical Record which takes place in Washington, D.C. on May 8 and 9, 2008.
Mary Denton (Ed.D. candidate, educational administration) has
been awarded the Schochet Endowment Award for Best Graduate Paper. The Steven J.
Schochet GLBTA Studies Awards for Excellence in Creativity & Scholarship recognize
papers and projects done by students in the field of GLBT Studies at the University
of Minnesota. Mary has also received awards from the following University organizations
in spring 2008 to support her research: Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender Association;
Graduate and Professional Student Association; and the Office of University Women.
Mary Denton (Ed.D. candidate, educational administration): Seashore
Endowed Fellowship.
John Flomo (Ph.D. student, higher education) been awarded a
Compton International Peace Fellowship by the University of Minnesota Interdisciplinary
Center for Global Change. The $24,000 award supports both exploratory fieldwork
and dissertation research.
Tara Harvey (Ph.D. student, comparative and international development
education): Advanced Studies Student Scholarship.
Jinous Kasravi (Ph.D. student, comparative and international
development education) has been named one of only two national recipients of the
2008-09 Ping Doctoral Fellowship from the Council on International Educational Exchange
(CIEE). The $20,000 award supports dissertation research on topics relevant to international
educational exchange.
Jinous Kasravi and Nancy O’Brien
(Ph.D. students, comparative and international development education): Graduate
Student Awards from the Women’s Philanthropic Leadership Circle (WPLC).
Yong-Lyun Kim (Ph.D., educational administration, 2007) has
been named the winner of the Dissertation of the Year Award by the AERA Research
on the Superintendency Special Interest Group. The award was presented in New York
at the 2008 AERA convention.
Giljae Lee (Ph.D. student, higher education) has been selected
as a Fellow for the 2008 National Summer Data Policy Institute for research on the
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and National Science Foundation
(NSF) databases.
Moosung Lee (Ph.D. candidate, comparative and international
development education) won the 2008 Graduate Student Research Award at the 49th
Annual Adult Education Research Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, for his paper “The
History of UNESCO's Lifelong Learning Policy Discourses: An Enduring Social Democratic
Liberalist Project of Global Educational Development.” The paper was co-authored
with Tom Friedrich (Ph.D. candidate in
the Department of Curriculum and Instruction).
Akiko Maeker (Ph.D. student, comparative and international development
education): Corcoran Research Travel Award.
Kate McCleary (Ph.D. student, comparative and international
development education) has been awarded an International Pre-Dissertation and Small
Grant Award from the Office of International Programs to support her research in
Nicaragua.
Kyoung-Ah Nam (Ph.D. candidate, comparative and international
development education): Robert and Corrie Beck Graduate Fellowship. Larry Wilson
Scholarship.
Nancy O’Brien and Jinous Kasravi
(Ph.D. students, comparative and international development education): Graduate
Student Awards from the Women’s Philanthropic Leadership Circle (WPLC).
Candy Schnepf and Diana Yefanova
(Ph.D. students, comparative and international development education) have each
been named recipients of an Alexander Dubcek Fund Grant Award. The award supports
the recipient’s research in a country of Eastern Europe.
Elizabeth Stallman (Ph.D., candidate, comparative and international
development education): Ruth Eckert Scholarship.
Emanda Thomas (Ph.D. student, educational administration) has
been selected to attend the David L. Clark National Graduate Student Research Seminar
in Educational Administration & Policy. The Clark Seminar is sponsored by the University
Council for Educational Administration (UCEA), Divisions A and L of the American
Educational Research Association (AERA), and Corwin Press.
Diana Yefanova and Candy Schnepf
(Ph.D. students, comparative and international development education) have each
been named recipients of an Alexander Dubcek Fund Grant Award. The award supports
the recipient’s research in a country of Eastern Europe.
Yongling Zhang (Ph.D. student, comparative and international
development education): 2008-09 Doctoral Fellowship from the Office of International
Programs (OIP) at the University of Minnesota and a U of M Graduate School Thesis
Research Grant.
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