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Message
from Chancellor Fox: One of UCSD’s greatest
institutional strengths is the breadth and depth of faculty research
on a range of important topics. Each month, Chancellor’s Corner
will showcase cross-disciplinary faculty expertise in a specific
area. I invite you to learn more about the work of these scholars,
and I hope you share my pride in their achievements and their contributions
to society.
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EDUCATION
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 Julian Betts, Professor of Economics
Betts is an expert on the economics of education, including the relationship between school spending and school quality and the impact of labor market conditions on educational institutions. Current research includes recent papers on the impact of grade inflation on students incentive to learn and how labor market conditions, especially unemployment, affect community college enrollments.
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 Amy J. Binder, Assistant Professor of Sociology
Binder studies education, culture, social movements and organizations.
She is the author of "Contentious Curricula: Afrocentrism and
Creationism in American Public Schools," More…
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 Maria Charles, Associate Professor of Sociology
Charles specializes in social inequality and sociology of gender and
race. She is the co-author of "Equal but Separate? A Cross-National
Study of Sex Segregation in Higher Education” (in American Sociological
Review, 2002). More…
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 Michael Cole, Professor of Communications
Cole’s knowledge is not only in the communication field but extends
into the areas of psychology and human development. The combination
of these three subjects have led to his interests in the relation
of child development to culture and education, the role of computers
in organizing education, acquisition of reading and other academic
skills, More….
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 Julie Berry Cullen, Professor of Economics
Cullen is a public finance economist who focuses on state and local intergovernmental relations and how institutions respond to incentives, with applications in the context of elementary and secondary education. She has special expertise in school finance, school choice, school accountability, and special education policy. More…
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 Gedeon O. Deák, Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science
Deák is a developmental psychologist who focuses on child and infant cognitive and social development. He can comment on topics relating to thinking and cognitive development, learning and early education, and language learning in young children. More…
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William S. Howe, Director, Center for Student Leadership, Engagement and Service
Howe has more than 20 years experience in leadership development and providing leadership and administrative direction in higher education, including 15 years as a college professor/researcher in the area of leadership studies and 10 years as a secondary school administrator and teacher. More…
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 Tom Humphries, Associate Director, LSOE,
Teacher Education and Department of Communication
Humphries has spent the past several years developing an experimental ASL-English Bilingual Education training curriculum which trains teachers to work with deaf children using an entirely new curriculum construct: the application of bilingual teaching practice to classrooms of deaf children. More…
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 Hugh Mehan, Professor of Sociology; Director of CREATE
Mehan has studied the social organization of schooling and the construction of academic identities for more than three decades. He has focused on educational inequality, educational equity and college diversity. The Director of UCSD’s CREATE (A Commitment to Educational Equity and Excellence), he has a significant involvement with the development of the Preuss School at UCSD. More…
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 Randall J. Souviney, Director of Education Studies
Souviney directs the UCSD Education Studies Program, which offers graduate programs that lead to the California Teaching Credential, Masters of Education, Masters in Teaching and Learning, and the Doctor of Education. He is currently co-principal investigator of the Performance Assessment for California Teachers Project, a multi-campus effort to develop a reliable, valid instrument to assess pre-service teacher performance for State licensure. More…
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 Ana Celia Zentella, Professor of Ethnic Studies
Zantella is an anthro-political linguist, and a central figure in the study of U.S. Latino varieties of Spanish and English, bilingualism, Spanglish, and English-only laws, focusing on the relationships of linguistic codes and the sociopolitical realities of ethnolinguistic speech communities. She can discuss issues related to bilingual and multicultural education. More…
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| ** To learn more
about other campus faculty scholars and areas of expertise, please
visit the searchable UCSD Faculty Experts Database at: http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/facultyExperts/ |
