The 2019 Doctoral Symposium was held in person on March 29th. This year’s theme was “Finding Our Voice” and included a panel discussing students and faculty whose research affects positive change in their communities. Members of the panel included:
Dr. JuanEs Ramirez, Ed.D.; was a current student at the time.
Research: Leveraging Latinx Parents’ Cultural Wealth: Platicas with Parents About their Involvement in Post-Secondary Educational Spaces in Western North Carolina
Dr. Brooksie Sturdivant, Ed.D.; 2018 Program Graduate
Research: Resilient African-American Women: Autoethnographic and Narrative Inquiry of Subjectivity and Agency
Dr. Stacy Holliday, Ed.D.; 2018 Program Graduate
Research: Dreambuilders: Undocucompetence Among Educators in the North Carolina Community College System
Dr. Devery Ward, Ph.D.; RCOE Faculty Member
Director of the Anderson Reading Clinic
Dr. Elizabeth Bellows, Ph.D.
The 2019 Alice P. Naylor Awards were presented to Dr. Brooksie Sturdivant for her dissertation entitled “Resilient African-American Women: Autoethnographic and Narrative Inquiry of Subjectivity and Agency” and to Dr. Brooke Hardin for her dissertation entitled “How They Do It: Examining Teachers’ Understandings and Appropriations of Instructional Tools and Strategies Learned in Writing Methods Coursework.”