General News

Dr. Bradley Smith, 2019 graduate of the Ed.D. in Educational Leadership-Higher Education Concentration, is the recipient of the 2020 Legacy for Leadership Award, which is given for the dissertation of the year in the Department of Educational Leadership. Dr. Smith’s winning dissertation is titled: From Early College to the University: A Case Study Exploring First-Semester […]

Stella Kim, Assistant Professor of Educational Research, has been named the founding Co-Chair of a new Special Interest Group in Measurement in Education (SIGIMIE) with the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME). The title of the SIGIMIE is Contemporary Issues in Scaling, Linking, and Equating (SLE), which was proposed by Dr. Kim to provide […]

On Friday, November 1, 2019, the Ed.D. Superintendency cohort, led by Drs. Walter Hart and Jim Watson, visited Raleigh to learn about education finance and policy with state leaders. The visit included a trip to the North Carolina Legislative Building and a meeting with the North Carolina Association of School Administrators, and was followed by […]

College Media Association (CMA) has named M.Ed. in Educational Leadership student, Kelly Merges, as the 2019 Distinguished Business Adviser. CMA presented the award at the annual conference in Washington, DC in October. Merges is the assistant director and marketing adviser in Student Niner Media at UNC Charlotte. She has served in this capacity for more […]

Educational Leadership faculty member, Dr. Tracey Benson, recently delivered a series of lectures on his new book, Unconscious Bias in Schools: A Developmental Approach to Exploring Race and Racism, published by Harvard Education Press. Some of the stops on the book tour included Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA), Williams College, and Harvard University.

Congratulations to Dr. Florence Martin, recipient of the Inaugural Thomas L. Reynolds Leadership Award, which is given for outstanding service as a Graduate Program Director at UNC Charlotte. Dr. Martin has worked with colleagues to revise, lead, and/or create four programs while at UNC Charlotte: the Graduate Certificate, M.Ed., and Ed.D. Concentration in Learning, Design, […]

On Friday, August 9, the seventh cohort of the Aspiring High School Principals Program in partnership with the Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools closed out their intensive five-week summer experience at Mallard Creek High School. UNC Charlotte Educational Leadership faculty, Drs. Debra Morris, Jim Watson, and Rebecca Shore led the five-week, full-time experience that uses a simulated […]

The Association for Educational Communications & Technology (AECT) Division of Distance Learning recently announced its 2019 award recipients. Among the recipients of these prestigious national awards are many individuals from the Department of Educational Leadership: Crystal Award, 3rd Place to Beth Oyarzun, Clinical Assistant Professor of Learning, Design, and Technology Journal Article Award-Quantitative, 2nd Place, […]

Congratulations to Kiran Budhrani, Ed.D. student, for being selected as the Lee W. Cochran Intern of the 2019 Association for Educational Communications & Technology (AECT) Addie Kinsinger Internship Award. This prestigious award is given to a small group of people recognized as leaders in the field of Educational Communications and Technology. The internship program provides […]