Guide
to college expertise
College faculty and researchers are experts in a wide variety of fields. For other
sources or for college experts in fields not listed below, contact Anitra
Budd at 612-626-7486 or
budd0018@umn.edu.
Categories include:
Education
Human development
Early education / PreK
Brain development, see
also cognitive development
Child care
Child development, see
also
child psychology
Children’s literature
Child psychology
Cognitive development
Early childhood / early childhood development
Early childhood education / early learning
Emotional development
Intelligence / IQ
Language (language acquisition and development
Literacy
Nature vs. nurture
Preschool, see
early childhood education / early learning
Social development of children
Thinking, see also cognitive development
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Academic achievement motivation
Accountability
Achievement gap
Adventure education
All-day kindergarten
Artistic creativity (teaching and learning)
Arts in education / art education
Assessment
At-risk children and youth
Attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Autism
Basic skills
Behavioral disorders, see also
bullies and aggression and
emotional and behavioral disorders
Bilingual education
Block scheduling
Bullies and aggression
Business and marketing education
Challenging behavior
Child abuse
Classroom management,
see also
violence intervention and prevention
Coaching
Conflict resolution / conflict management
Consumer science education, see
family and consumer sciences education
Cooperative learning / cooperative education / cooperative and
competitive behavior
Critical discourse analysis
Cultural studies
Curriculum development
Data-driven decision-making under
school administration,
see also
accountability
Democratic education
Disabilities
Discipline in K-12 schools, see also
conflict
resolution
Diversity, see also
multicultural,
gender-fair education
Dropout prevention
Education systems change
and students with disabilities
Educational outcomes
Educational reform and policy
Elementary education
Elementary schools, see
elementary education
Emotional and behavioral disorders,
see also behavioral disorders
English as a second language / ESL
English education
Environmental education
Evaluation and testing, see also
accountability
Evolution-creationism controversy
Family education / Family and consumer science education
Foreign language education
Future of education
Gender-fair education, see diversity
Gifted and talented / gifted students
Graduation standards
History of education
Home economics, see family and
consumer sciences education
Homeless children and families
Homeless students, see homeless
children and families
Inclusion, see also disabilities
Individualized education plans (IEPs)
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
Intelligence / IQ
International education
Language
Law
Learning disabilities, see disabilities
Literacy
Mathematics education
Multicultural,
gender-fair education, see also
diversity
Outcome-based education
Outdoor education
Physical education
Policy analysis and evaluation
Program evaluation
Race and education
Second language acquisition, see language
Second languages and cultures, see
language
School administration
School counseling
School culture, see also
school improvement
School finance
School improvement, see also
school culture,
school start times
School leadership, see
school administration
School psychology
School start times
School sports
Science education
Second languages and cultures, see
language,
English as a second language
Social studies education
Special education
Standards, see accountability
Statistics education
Student engagement, see
dropout prevention
Superintendency
Teacher education and licensure
Teacher leadership, see
school administration
Technology in education / Technology and schools
Testing, see evaluation and testing
Thinking, see also
cognitive development,
language (language acquisition and development)
Universal design
Urban K-12 schools / Urban schooling
Violence intervention and prevention /Violence and safety
Vocational—academic, integration of / Vocational education
Writing and literature
Youth, see also
adolescents
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Higher, professional, and adult education
Academic achievement motivation
Accreditation in higher education
Achievement gap
Adult development
Adult education
Adventure education
Career and technical education
Citizenship education
Classroom simulations
Coaching
College students
Community colleges and two-year postsecondary education
Cultural studies
Developmental education
Diversity
Educational reform and policy
Faculty development
Field learning and instruction
Future of education
Gender equity, see diversity
Graduate education
Higher education
and institutional research
Higher education career services / counseling
Higher education policy and administration
Human resource development
Illiteracy, adult
Institutional research, see
higher
education and institutional research
Intergenerational learning
International education
Learning communities
Literacy
Mentoring, see also
teacher education
Multicultural and gender-fair education,
see also diversity
New teachers, see mentoring and teacher
education
Organizational theory
Parent education
Policy analysis and evaluation
Popular culture in the classroom
Postsecondary education
Program evaluation
Research integrity /
scientific integrity
Research methods
Service learning
Students with disabilities in higher education, see
disabilities
Superintendency
Workplace training and development, see
human resource development
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Aging
Americans with Disabilities Act
Athletic training
Behavioral biology
Brain development, see cognitive development
Caregiving
Child development
Childhood obesity
Coaching
Cognitive development
Computer human interaction, see
human/technology interaction
Deaf/Hard of hearing
Dynamic systems / coordination dynamics
Environmental education,
see also
outdoor education
Ergonomic design
Exercise / sport science,
see also sports / sport science
Extreme sports
Girls and women in sport
Health care
Heart disease prevention and rehabilitation
Human/technology interaction
Motion sickness
Motor control
Nutrition for health and sports
Outdoor education,
see also environmental education
Perception and action
Physical therapy
Recreation
Recreation therapy
Road safety
Sports / sport science
Universal design
Women athletes, see girls
and women in sport top of page
Adolescents
Adoption
Aging
At-risk children and youth
Behavioral biology
Behavioral disorders
Brain development (in infants and children), see
cognitive development
Bullies and aggression
Child abuse
Child development, see
child psychology
Child psychology
Children’s mental health, see
mental health in children
Counseling
Death and dying
Ecological psychology
Emotional and behavioral disorders
Emotional development
Forgiveness and healing
Gait and posture
Homeless children and families
International adoption, see adoption
Language acquisition and development, see language
Mental health
Moral and ethical studies
Myers-Briggs type indicator
Nature vs. nurture
Neuroscience
Parenting
Parent education, see parenting, family education
Personality development
Poverty, see also
homeless children and families
Psychotherapy and psychopathology
Reflective practice
Resilience of children (resiliency in children faced with adversity)
Self-esteem in children
Sexual abuse
Social development of children
Stress
Substance abuse prevention
Thinking
Violence intervention and prevention
/ violence and safety
Virtual reality / virtual environments
Youth top of page
Adult development
Affirmative action
American Indian studies
Attachment, see parenting
Bullies and aggression
Career development, see counseling
Case management / case coordination
Change and resiliency
Child abuse
Child development, see also
child psychology
Child protection
Child welfare system
Citizenship education
Community and learning
Community inclusion
Community organizing
Community outreach / community partnerships
Conflict resolution / management
Community services for persons with disabilities
Consumer-controlled housing
Community development
Community supports
Cooperative learning
Corrections
Counseling: career development (adult)
Disabilities
Disadvantaged populations
Diversity
Divorce
Early intervention
Emergency preparedness
Employment
Environmental education, see also
outdoor education
Faith communities inclusion
Families
Financial literacy / family
financial management
Future of education
Human services
Immigration
Inclusion
Intercultural competence
Intergenerational learning
International social development
Interpersonal communication
Kinship care
Leadership
Marriage and family therapy
Multicultural/multiracial families
Myers-Briggs type indicator
Neighborhood revitalization
Organizational development
Outdoor education, see also
environmental education
Parent education, see parenting
and family education
Parent involvement, see
family and school partnerships
Parental leave
Parenting
Peer and friendship relationships
Play
Public policy and advocacy
Reluctant and involuntary clients
Residential services
Self advocacy
Sexuality / GLBT studies
Social development of children
Social inclusion of youth and adults with disabilities
Social services
Social work
Staffing
Sustainable development
Transition
Transportation
Victim-offender mediation and dialogue
Violence intervention and prevention
Welfare
Workplace literacy, see
adult education
Workplace training and development, see
human resource development
Workplace violence, see
violence intervention and prevention
Youth
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- Academic achievement motivation
- Accountability
- Accreditation in higher
education
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Achievement gap
- Adolescents
adolescent
development
alcohol use and suicidal behavior in adolescence
juvenile justice and youth with disabilites
mental illness in adolescents
parenting adolescents
- Adoption
international adoption
- Adult development
- Adult education
adult literacy, workplace literacy, rewriting technical and legal
documents in plain language
- Adventure education / adventure
therapy
- Affirmative action
- Aging
aging and disability
aging families
autonomy and decision making
elder mistreatment
financial security in later life
gay and lesbian aging
lifelong learning
older women
rural older adults
vital aging
volunteering
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All-day kindergarten
- American Indian studies
American Indian history
American Indian youth, transition to college
Indigenous ways of knowing and learning
- Americans with Disabilities Act
- Artistic creativity
- Arts in education / art education
- Assessment
curriculum-based measurement (CBM)
progress measurement
- Athletic training
- At-risk children/youth
- Attention-deficit disorder, hyperactivity
disorder (ADHD)
- Autism
- Basic skills
- Behavioral biology
- Behavioral disorders
- Bilingual education
- Block scheduling
- Bullies and aggression
early adolescence
girls
- Business and
marketing education
- Career and technical education
- Caregiving
long term care
- Case management / care coordination
for persons with disabilities
- Challenging behavior
- Change and resiliency
- Child abuse
- Child care
child care assistance
- Child development
language acquisition and development
social, emotional, and motor development
- Child protection
- Child psychology
- Child welfare system
child welfare system and children/parents with disabilities
- Childhood obesity
- Children’s literature
- Citizenship education
- Classroom management
- Classroom simulations
- Coaching
- Cognitive development
perceptual development
- College students
- Community and learning
- Community
colleges and two-year postsecondary education
- Community development
- Community inclusion
and persons with disabilities
- Community organizing
antiracist and cross-class organizing
citizen action by families
- Community outreach / community partnerships
- Community services for persons with disabilities
Medicaid support for community services
- Community supports
cross-cultural community supports
cross-cultural community supports and persons with disabilities
consumer-directed supports for persons with disabilities
- Conflict resolution /
conflict management
- Consumer-controlled housing and persons with disabilities
- Cooperative learning
- Corrections
restorative justice
- Counseling
career development (adult)
counseling student athletes
genetic counseling
- Critical discourse analysis
- Cultural studies
- Curriculum development
inquiry learning
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- Deaf/Hard of hearing
- Death and dying
in African-American families
life and death health care decisions
- Democratic education
- Developmental education
developmental mathematics education
- Disabilities
- Disadvantaged populations
- Discipline in K-12 schools
- Diversity
Chicano/Latino services
cultural sensitivity in healthcare and recreation
services
disability
diversity, equity, social justice
indigenous ways of knowing and learning
instructional strategies for diverse learners
racial disparities
underrepresented student populations in college
- Divorce
- Dropout prevention
/ student engagement
alternative schools
- Dynamic systems / coordination dynamics
- Early childhood / Early childhood development
attachment, emotional development
early assessment
infant development
infant growth; parent-infant attachment; moral
reasoning development
infant visual development
policy
preschool / elementary
social and physical development
- Early childhood education
/ early learning
- Early intervention
- Ecological psychology
- Ecology and distribution of
fishes
- Education systems change
and students with disabilities
- Educational outcomes and
students with disabilities
- Educational reform and policy
- Elementary education and schools
- Emergency preparedness and
persons with disabilities
- Emotional and behavioral disorders
- Emotional development
- Employment
of persons with disabilities
- English education
- Environmental education
- Ergonomic design
- ESL (English as a second language)
English language learners with disabilities
- Evaluation and testing
curriculum evaluation
- Evolution-creationism controversy
- Exercise / sport science
- Extreme sports
- Faculty development
- Faith communities and inclusion of
persons with disabilities
- Families
African-American families
families and health
family assessment
family business
family decision making
family development
family economics
family of origin
family and school partnerships
family support
and disability
family values
grief and loss in families
Hispanic families
inheritance
multicultural/multiracial families
rural families
siblings
- Family and consumer sciences education
- Field learning and instruction
- Financial literacy / family
financial management
- Forgiveness and healing
- Foreign language education
- Future of education
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- Gait and posture
- Gerontology (see
aging)
- Gifted and talented students
- Girls and women in sport
- Graduate education
- Graduation standards
- Health care
and persons with disabilities
- Heart disease prevention and rehabilitation
- Higher
education and institutional research
- Higher education career services / counseling
- Higher education policy/administration
academic access
- History of education
- Homeless children and families
- Human resource development (workplace training and development)
Direct Support Professionals and supervisors supporting persons
with disabilities
- Human services
government budgets and human services
human services management
- Human/technology interaction
- Illiteracy, adult
- Immigration
immigrant education
immigrant families
mental health of Asian elderly immigrants and refugees
social work with immigrants
- Inclusion
social inclusion of youth and adults with disabilities
inclusion and persons with disabilities
- Individualized education plans (IEPs)
- Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
- Intelligence / IQ
- Intercultural competence
- Intergenerational learning
- International education
- International social development
- Interpersonal communication
augmentative and alternative communication
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- Kinship care
- Language
American sign language
classroom discourse
English language learners with disabilities
ESL
language acquisition in foreign cultures
language immersion education
second language acquisition
second languages and cultures / second languages and culture education
- Law
legal issue in postsecondary education
- Leadership
leadership by persons with disabilities
person-centered planning
women in leadership
- Learning communities
- Literacy
accessible
reading assessment for students with disabilities
critical literacy
early elementary, CIERA-school change
early literacy
literacy history
phonics and whole language
reading / reading difficulties / reading
development
reading comprehension
reading fluency
tutoring programs, adults
tutoring programs, children
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- Marriage and family therapy
cross-cultural therapy
- Mathematics education
- Mental health
in
children
- Mentoring
mentoring new teachers
- Moral and ethical studies
- Motion sickness
- Motor control
movement disorders/perceptual motor
development/biomechanics
- Multicultural, gender-fair education
counseling and gender issues
gender equity
- Myers-Briggs type indicator
- Nature vs. nurture
- Neighborhood revitalization
- Neuroscience
- Nutrition for health and sports
- Organizational development
systems change
- Organizational theory
- Outcome-based education
- Outdoor education
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- Parent education
- Parental leave
- Parenting
fatherhood
- Peer
and friendship relationships
- Perception and action
visual space perception
- Personality development
- Physical education
- Physical therapy
- Play
- Policy analysis and evaluation
- Popular culture in the classroom
- Postsecondary education
postsecondary education and students with disabilities
- Poverty
families in poverty
- Program evaluation
quality assurance
in human services
- Psychotherapy and
psychopathology
- Public policy and advocacy
child welfare policy
disabilities
family policy
social policy
social welfare policy
- Race and education
critical whiteness studies
- Recreation
management
- Recreation therapy
- Reflective practice
- Reluctant and involuntary clients
- Research integrity /
scientific integrity
- Research methods
qualitative research methods
quantitative research methods
- Residential services and
persons with disabilities
- Resilience of children
- Road safety
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- School administration
data-driven decision-making
licensure of school administrators
principals
school leadership, power, decision-making, women in educational
leadership
superintendents
teacher leadership
- School counseling
- School culture / climate
- School finance
K-12 schools
- School improvement
- School psychology
- School sports
- School start times
- Science education
- Self advocacy by persons
with disabilities
- Self-esteem in children
- Service learning
- Sexual abuse
- Sexuality / GLBT studies
gay and lesbian aging
- Social development of children
- Social inclusion of youth
and adults with disabilities
- Social services
- Social studies education
- Social work
international social work
rural social work
social work ethics
social work history
social work practice
- Special education
American Sign Language
cognitive delay / developmental cognitive
disabilities
collaboration between general and special educators
curriculum-based measurement (assessment/student
progress monitoring)
deaf/hard of hearing
deaf-blindness
developmental disabilities
early childhood
language development
learning disabilities
- Sports / sport science
ethics and sport
extreme sports
girls and women in sport
sport branding and marketing
sport medicine
sport parents
sport policy
sport psychology/sport injury psychology
sportsmanship
youth sport
- Staffing
Direct Support Professional and frontline supervisor development
preparation of education paraprofessionals
professional development for educators
staff recruitment and retention in community and disability services
- Statistics education
- Stress
childhood stress, coping with
family stress
post-traumatic stress disorder
stress and coping
- Substance abuse
/ substance abuse prevention
- Superintendency
- Sustainable development
- Teacher education and
licensure
language teacher education and licensure
National Board Certification for teachers
- Technology in education /
Technology and schools
blended learning and Web assisted courses
computer applications training
computer-assisted instructional methods
distance education
e-scholarship
interactive television pedagogy
- Thinking
critical and complex thinking
language acquisition and learning
- Transition
school-to-work / school-to-work transition
transition to college
transition to post high school life by students with disabilities
- Transportation and persons
with disabilities
- Universal design
of the built environment
universally designed assessments
- Urban K-12 schools / Urban
schooling / Urban classrooms
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- Victim-offender mediation and dialogue
- Violence intervention and prevention
/ Violence and safety
children’s exposure to violence; effects of violence exposure on
development and functioning
domestic violence
early childhood
men and violence
school shootings
sexual assault
- Virtual reality / virtual environments
- Vocational—academic, integration of
/ Vocational education
- Welfare
welfare history
welfare reform
- Wilderness therapy (see adventure therapy)
- Writing and literature
children’s literature
composition studies
literature
writing
- Youth
youth and money
youth apprenticeship
youth development
youth involvement and policy
youth with disabilities
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