From the Office of Research and Graduate Education: Congratulations to Robert Branch, John Mativo, and Sakeena Everett
IUGB-UGA Development Focused Learning and U.S.-Style Higher Education in West Africa
- PI: Brian Watkins, director of international initiatives, Office of Global Engagement
- Co-PIs: Rob Branch, professor, Department of Career and Information Studies; John Mativo, associate professor, Department of Career and Information Studies; Erik Ness, associate professor, Institute of Higher Education
- Sponsor: U.S. Department of State
- Amount: $250,000
The U.S. State Department’s University Partnerships Initiative is designed to strengthen collaboration between U.S. and African universities while harnessing the enormous opportunity posed by Africa’s projected doubling in population by 2050. It is intended to increase the capability of universities in Africa to offer high-quality, workforce-responsive education while building long-term academic relationships with key institutions in the United States.
Teaching Through Coronavirus: Toward Cultivating Urgent Culturally Responsive Distance Learning Pedagogies
- PI: Keisha Allen, assistant professor, University of Maryland
- Co-PIs: Sakeena Everett, assistant professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education; Kindel Nash, associate professor, University of Maryland
- Sponsor: University of Maryland Foundation, Inc; Maryland State Department of Education Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund
- Amount: $151,332
This research group aims to meet the immediate needs of educators as they teach through COVID-19 while simultaneously informing sustainable policies that support educators’ humanizing distance learning (HDL) pedagogies. Examining sustainable HDL approaches has the potential to redress persistent educational inequities that youth of color experience in schools, even when schools return to face-to-face teaching.