Building Bridges to Doctoral Student Success: A New Model of Student Persistence
Wednesday, February 05, 2025, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST
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CPED February Wednesday WebinarBuilding Bridges to Doctoral Student Success: A New Model of Student PersistenceDate: Wednesday, February 5, 2025 Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET Are you interested in learning what the research says about doctoral student persistence and how you and your university can better support doctoral students in the process? Join us for a lively discussion with great takeaways for your program and university! This session is ideal for existing programs or universities hoping to launch an effective program. RSVP NowPresenters: Cece Lively Before joining Graduate Professional Education as the Director of Portfolio Management, Cece Lively served as Assistant Director to Baylor’s largest research doctoral program, the EdD in Learning and Organizational Change. She received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Teaching from Baylor University, her master’s degree in Education Administration from Baylor University, and her bachelor’s degree in Communication from Carson-Newman University. Her research interests include student persistence, student support services, online learning, organizational change, student success, and community building in online spaces. Most recently her dissertation research focused on narrative, qualitative research in the area of doctoral student persistence. Brooke Blevins Brooke Blevins, Ph.D., is Dean of the College of Education, Health and Human Sciences. She earned her B.A. in Economics and Speech Communication and her M.A.T from Trinity University, and her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to entering higher education, Dr. Blevins served as a high school teacher in Texas. Dr. Blevins’ is a leader in the field of civic education. Her research interests include educating and empowering young people to become active and engaged civic participants and preparing teachers to engage in transformational and humanizing education. Dr. Blevins serves as the co-director for the iEngage Summer Civics Institute. Rooted in action civics and digital technologies, iEngage is an innovative program providing high quality, action oriented civic education experiences to students and teachers. Dr. Blevins has been awarded more than $285,000 in grant funding to support this program and associated research. In 2022, she was awarded the Sandra Day O’Connor Award for the Advancement of Civics Education from National Center for State Courts. Dr. Blevins teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in secondary education, social studies education, academic writing and research, and multicultural education. She has a passion for equipping teachers and educational leaders with the resources needed to engage in humanizing practices. Dr. Blevins has chaired over 30 dissertations and published widely with her students. In addition, Dr. Blevins has won several awards for her research including the 2022 Texas National Association of Multicultural Education Outstanding Researcher Award, 2013 Jon Laska Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Association of Curriculum and Teaching, and the 2011 Best Paper Award from the AERA Research in Social Studies Education SIG for her work with SSIRC. Dr. Blevins serves as the media and book review editor for Theory and Research in Social Education. An active member of the College and University Faculty Assembly (CUFA) of the National Council for the Social Studies, Dr. Blevins served as the 2019 Chair of the CUFA Executive Board. She has also held leadership positions in the American Association of Educational Research (AERA). Tony Talbert Dr. Tony L. Talbert is a professor of social/cultural studies education and qualitative research in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction in the School of Education at Baylor University. Dr. Talbert refers to his field of research and teaching as “Education As Democracy” which integrates social/cultural, diversity, and democracy education into a focused discipline of qualitative and ethnographic inquiry examining school and community stakeholder empowerment through activist engagement in political, economic, and social issues. Dr. Talbert’s 37 years as an educator have included teaching, research, and service in public schools, universities, and governmental and corporate institutions. Dr. Talbert began his career in education as a public school history and government teacher where he applied his previous training as a stage actor by engaging his students in the exploration of the human story by integrating the students’ own lived experiences with the historic drama and comedy that encompassed the lives of the characters and events being studied. RSVP Now |