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Memory in Education
Robert Z. Zheng and Michael K. Gardner, both Professors of Educational Psychology in the College of Education's Educational Psychology Department recently released a new book, Memory in Education. Both authors are experts in the field of human memory and learning.
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Indigenous Education is for Everyone
Michelle M. Jacob, PhD was the guest lecturer at the J. George Jones, Jr. and Velma Rife Jones Lecture Series. This year's lecture, sponsored, by the Urban Institute for Teacher Education, was presented January 23 to a large crowd that filled the College of Education auditorium.
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Indigenizing the curriculum
Dr. Cynthia Benally, an assistant professor in the college's Department of Education, Culture & Society, is featured as a guest editor and contributor in the most recent edition of the Journal of American Indian Education.
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Violence prevention and education
University of Utah President Ruth V. Watkins has appointed Chris Linder as a special assistant to support violence prevention and education efforts on campus.
College of Education Dean Search
The University of Utah invites nominations and applications for the position of dean of the College of Education. The dean will be a tenured professor serving as the college’s chief academic and administrative officer. Duties include oversight of academic programs, fundraising, recruiting/retention of outstanding and diverse faculty, staff, and students; and communicating within the university, and to the community-at-large, the goals and achievements of the college and the importance of education in a dynamic and changing society.
The dean will serve a five-year renewable term to begin July 2020 and will report to the senior vice president for Academic Affairs.
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COLLEGE OF EDUCATION INAUGURAL DIVERSITY LECTURE SERIES
Joan and Loki Mulholland
February 13 civil rights icon Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, together with filmmaker Loki Mulholland, presented The Uncomfortable Truth. Using clips from the 2017 documentary with the same name, the Mulholland’s spoke about the ways in which racism continues to organize life in the United States.
MAX FELKER-KANTOR
March 5 American historian Dr. Max Felker-Kantor explained how the Los Angeles Police Department, faced with restrictions on its discretionary authority during the late 1950s and 1960s, sought to expand its power. Referencing his book Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD, Kantor’s research shows us how historical events connect with what we are seeing with today’s school-to-prison pipeline.
BENJAMIN CRUMP
March 26 Benjamin Crump, attorney at law, spoke to Using the Law as a Weapon. Mr. Crump shared his experiences with the “intellectual justification of discrimination” and highlighted examples of how the law has been used as a weapon again African Americans throughout history. Mr. Crump advised we must work through both education and economic channels to achieve change and equality as one cannot progress without the other.
Alumni, Emeriti, and Friends
Dixie Snow Huefner's interests in public policy and public education led to a B.A. in political science from Wellesley College, an M.S. in special education and a J.D. from the U. She joined the special education faculty at the U. in a clinical role in 1977.
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