2019 Symposium

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.”