Thursday, March 29, 2012

Kudos to Our New Doctors!

Congratulations to Steven Evans, Ilona Szekely, Paul Blankenship, Wendy Bolt, Teresa Mayo, and Lisa Stephenson on successfully defending their dissertations over the past few weeks.  Great job and see you at Commencement!

Congrats

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

students interested in taking EPE 682 (Higher Ed. Law)

For those students interested in taking EPE 682: Higher Education and the Law, there is no longer a prerequisite needed to take the course.  If you have questions about the course, please email me at neal.hutchens@uky.edu

Thanks!
Neal

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Panel Discussion on Academic Freedom--April 12th from 11:45-1pm

On April 12th (Thursday) from 11:45 until 1 pm, there will be a panel discussion entitled "Academic Freedom--Future Promise and Perils."  The panel will be in 109 Dickey Hall (Faculty Lounge).

Along with EPE's John Thelin, panel members will include Robert Post of Yale Law School and Joseph Fink of the UK College of Pharmacy.

Lunch will be provided.  Make plans to attend!

Monday, March 19, 2012

EPE Course Offerings for Summer/Fall 2012

Course offerings you might take into consideration when priority registration opens on March 26th are listed below.  Please note that some adjustments are still being made to the MyUK listings, that there are some restricted enrollment courses being offered, and that this list does not reflect our department's entire course offering for Summer/Fall 2012.  For further information, you might visit MyUK or the Registrar's Schedule of Classes page (select the appropriate academic term and enter EPE into the "Course Prefix" field).

In Summer Session 2 2012 (8 Week):

EPE 557-420- "Gathering Analyzing and Using Educational Data" taught by Dr. Eric Reed Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30-8:30 PM
This is a lecture and lab combined version of our usual EPE 557 offering.

EPE 684-220- "Higher Education and Athletics:  An Historical Analysis" taught by Dr. John Thelin
This is a distance learning version of our usual EPE 684 offering.

EPE 798-221- "Seminar in Higher Education: The University in Global Context" taught by Dr. Jane Jensen
This course is offered through the distance learning program and reflects the institutional history of how the Western university has been and is situated in a global context. Travelling in time from the first medieval institutions in the 12th century through the student protests of the sixties to the globalization of the university today, course participants will trace the themes of academic freedom, student and faculty activism, and the knowledge economy.  Although this course centers on the Western university, we situate our conversation in a larger global context with the comparative story of Islamic, colonial, and post-colonial higher education.  From medieval Bologna to current EU reforms called the Bologna Process this course provides an excellent background to a variety of research interests in the study of higher education.

In Fall 2012:

EPE 525-001/773-004- "Special Topics Seminar:  "Let's See: Approaching the History of Education through Photographs" taught by Dr. Richard Angelo on Thursdays from 1-3:30 PM
EPE 525/001-773-004 is open to beginning as well as advanced graduate students. Because it is a "seminar," the emphasis will be on original research. Alan Trachtenberg's Reading American Photographs: Images as History from Mathew Brady to Walker Evans (1989) is an early and outstanding example of what has become a burgeoning literature. Using appropriate secondary works as guide and inspiration, students will explore a topic of their choice that bears on history of education in Kentucky. The only requirement (aside from the final paper) is that the topic be rooted in one way or another in the photographic collections at our disposal here on campus or on line. (For a sample, see the "Brief Photo Essay on the History of Education in KY" on the EPE website: http://education.uky.edu/EPE/content/research-briefs

EPE 773-005- "Seminar in Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation:  "Global Education, Gender, Media and Popular Culture" taught by Dr. Karen Tice on Tuesdays from 4-6:30 PM
EPE 773-005 will consider the convergence of gender, popular culture, mass media, education, consumerism, globalization and transnational networks, and neo-liberal/postfeminist discourses of assimilation, empowerment, and mobility. It will explore the impacts of these dynamics on both formal and informal educational spaces and practices. We will also examine how commercialized popular culture, celebrity, and media pedagogies help to shape gendered student identities and cultures. This course will also focus on the production, consumption, and diffusion of various forms of popular culture as well as their localization, negotiation, and reinterpretation. 

The objectives of this course include enhancing our understandings of transnational patterns of education, cultural flows, and diffusion, as well as the consumption and reception of popular culture and media pedagogies. Multidisciplinary readings will draw from education, cultural studies, gender studies, media studies, and other fields of inquiry.

EPE 773-006- "Seminar in Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation:  Applied Structural Equation Modeling" taught by Dr. Hongwei Yang on Tuesdays from 4-6:30 PM
EPE 773-006 "Applied Structural Equation Modeling" is an applied methodology course covering various topics in structural equation modeling (SEM) where a smaller number of latent variables are assumed to exist that explain covariances and correlations between observed variables and thus the relationship between latent/observed variables needs to be examined through statistical models. The course will teach you the popular SEM technique through a preferred and easy-to-use analysis platform: SPSS AMOS, and it will apply SEM to both cross- sectional and longitudinal data analysis.

Specifically topics in this course include the following: Review of basic concepts (mean, correlation, covariance, etc.), path analysis of observed measures, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), general structural equation models incorporating measurement and structural models, etc. Both single-group analysis and multiple-group comparison will be covered. For the longitudinal data analysis part of the course, both unconditional and conditional latent growth curve models will be presented in the absence/presence of time-varying/time-invariant covariates.

The course will be useful to students/researchers in the following fields of study:
1.      Educational research – Evaluate training program outcomes to determine impact on classroom effectiveness
2.      Psychology – Develop models to understand how drug, clinical, and art therapies affect mood
3.      Program evaluation – Evaluate program outcomes or behavioral models using SEM to replace traditional stepwise regression
4.      Institutional research – Study how work-related issues affect job satisfaction
5.      Market research – Model how customer behavior impacts new product sales or analyze customer satisfaction and brand loyalty
6.      Business planning – Create econometric and financial models and analyze factors affecting workplace job attainment
7.      Social sciences – Study how socioeconomic status, organizational membership, and other determinants influence differences in voting behavior and political engagement
8.      Medical and healthcare research – Confirm which of three variables –confidence, savings, or research – best predicts a doctor’s support for prescribing generic drugs

EPE 798-001- "Seminar in Higher Education:  LGBT Issues in Higher Education" taught by Dr. Steven Oliver on Wednesdays from 1-3:30 PM
Institutions across the US are grappling with the question of how to create space within the academy for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students, faculty and staff. These questions have implications for every aspect campus life including human resource policy, faculty recruitment and retention, student affairs, the development of new courses, and creating a welcoming campus climate as part of the broader work of diversity and inclusion. This course will explore the growing body of literature that seeks to understand the needs of LGBT students, faculty, and staff. We will examine the pathways various institutions have taken to address these issues at times in the face of considerable resistance despite shifting societal trends. 


EPE 798-401- "Seminar in Higher Education:  Sociology and Education" taught by Dr. Eric Reed on Thursdays from 7-9:30 PM
In "Sociology and Education" we will survey many of the ways in which Sociologists study and discuss Higher Education. Our survey includes (but is not limited to): the study of Higher Education as part of a system of inequality; Higher Education as a stratification mechanism; Higher Education as an organization or institution; Higher Education as a workplace; and Higher Education as a change agent. We will conduct this survey by evaluating and discussing a theoretically and methodologically diverse sample of sociological works.

EPE 798-402- "Seminar in Higher Education:  Diversity and Education" taught by Dr. Willis Jones on Thursdays from 4-6:30 PM
"Diversity and Education" will critically examine how various areas of post-secondary education are impacted by diversity at the student, faculty, and administrative levels of a college/university. Among the topics to be covered in the course are college student racial identity development, understanding and creating a diverse campus climate, and approaches for consuming and analyzing research on the impact of diversity in higher education. 
  If you have questions concerning the course listing for EPE, or if you require assistance with registration, you should contact Amberly Warnke at aaburk00@uky.edu  *Please note*  If you are a newly admitted student, you will not be able to register until just before the beginning of the academic term to which you were admitted.




Saturday, March 10, 2012

Call for Papers

Please consider submitting a proposal for a paper presentation at the 24th Annual Ethnographic & Qualitative Research Conference (EQRC). The proposal deadline is Tuesday, March 20, 2012.  For more details, visit the conference website: http://www.cedarville.edu/event/eqrc


The conference is affordable and centrally-located in Ohio, making it readily accessible to all by driving or flying. Please circulate this announcement to peers and graduate students active in qualitative research projects. Note that we invite all interactive poster and lecture presentation conference papers for submission, review, and potential publication in a printed, peer-reviewed periodical, the Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research (JEQR).

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Assistantships Available for 2012-2013 in Academic Enhancement

As we prepare for the next academic year, Academic Enhancement currently has openings for teaching and graduate assistants to begin in the fall.

Students can apply online (http://ukjobs.uky.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=232556) and any questions about assistantships may directed to Jim Breslin (jdbres2@uky.edu). A brief description of Academic Enhancement and a list of potential responsibilities are included in the job posting.

Students interested in teaching assistantships in Academic Enhancement should also send a letter of interest c/o Amberly Warnke in EPE so that your application can be endorsed by the department faculty.  EPE works in conjunction with Academic Enhancement to fill these positions as some of the assignments are connected to EPE courses.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Teaching Assistantship EPE/EDP 557


The University of Kentucky (UK) College of Education

Description of Teaching Assistantship


The Departments of Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology and Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation offer One Teaching Assistantship for one graduate course: EDP/EPE 557 Gathering, Analyzing, and Using Educational Data I.  This course is a pre-requisite for taking additional quantitative-related courses and taken primarily by Master and Doctoral level students.  As such, the course includes a considerable amount of basic statistical and graphical methods used to describe and analyze data in the social sciences.

The Teaching Assistant (TA) serves as the lab assistant for three (3) sections each academic semester (of approximately 15 – 18 students each) of their given course.  As lab assistant, you are responsible for all aspects of planning labs, teaching labs, and holding office hours.  Considerable guidance and supervision are provided by the course instructor.  In addition to their regularly scheduled classes and office hours, Teaching Assistants are required by the Graduate School to attend preliminary training (usually around three (3) days at the beginning of the Fall semester) and bi-weekly supervision meetings.  Preference for TA assignment is given to doctoral students and those with experience working with statistics and completion of intermediate and advanced statistics courses (e.g., EDP/EPE 660: Research Design and Analysis in Education, EDP/EPE 707: Multivariate Analysis in Educational Research).

Currently, the Teaching Assistant has the use of a shared office space in Taylor Education Building.   The assistantship includes a stipend and tuition reimbursement.  Contract is for one year and renewable for a second-year based on satisfactory performance and availability of funding.  The student accepting a Teaching Assistantship is expected to be available for a two-year term.

Application Process for the 2012-2013 academic year:
Current students are encouraged to apply ASAP, while prospective/incoming students should apply as soon as they have received an official letter of admission to their program.  In both cases, all application materials (listed below) should be forwarded via e-mail to Dr. Michael Toland at: toland.md@uky.edu.  The deadline for application submission is Friday, March 30th, 2012.  In your application, please provide the following:   
  • Name and Program of study/Academic department affiliation, including level (i.e., Ph.D., Ed. S., or Masters)
  • Indicate in your application that it is for EDP/EPE 557 teaching assistant position
  • Quantitative courses completed or currently taking. Note: course numbers alone are not informative; please provide course titles or a very brief description of the content.
  • Curriculum Vitae with description of relevant teaching, research and/or work experiences

The recipient of the Teaching Assistantship will be notified in April, 2012.

Seminar this Friday on Higher Education!

John Kennan from the Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin, will be presenting a seminar that is jointly sponsored by UKCommittee on Poverty Research and the Department of Economics.  A link to his CV is at
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~jkennan/research/index.htm <http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/%7Ejkennan/research/index.htm>

The seminar is this Friday, March 9, from 3:00pm-4:30pm in BE 305. He will be presenting "Higher Education Subsidies and Human Capital Mobility." The paper is available at http://gatton.uky.edu/Content.asp?PageName=AUEcoWScheduleS12

EPE students and friends of EPE are encouraged to attend in droves!

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Teaching Assistantships for 2012-2013


EPE 301 Teaching Assistantships Available Beginning Fall 2012

The Department of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation is seeking applications for EPE 301 teaching assistantships available starting fall 2012 semester.

Course Description: EPE 301, Education in American Culture, explores the context of teaching and learning in American society, both within and outside of the classroom. EPE 301 critically examines different perspectives on education and culture, explores anxieties and aspirations about schools, the ways popular culture influences schooling, and studies the impact of race, class, gender, ethnicity, religion, language, and nationality, both past and present, on teaching and learning.  EPE 301 considers what roles schools play in constructing and perpetuating inequalities and opportunities, as well as the specific dimensions and practices of schools which marginalize or privilege particular groups of people.

Responsibilities include teaching two sections of EPE 301each semester as well as participating in a bi-monthly teaching seminar. All of the graduate teaching assistants are strongly encouraged to attend department gatherings and colloquia. These assistantships include a stipend and tuition reimbursement.

To apply send a letter of interest and a vitae to Dr. Richard Angelo c/o Amberly Warnke, Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation, 131 Taylor Education Building, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0001 by Friday, March 16th.

For further information, please contact Dr. Richard Angelo, angelo@coe.uky.edu