2020 Annual Ed.D. Symposium
The 2020 Doctoral Symposium was held on Thursday November 12th and Friday November 13th via zoom. This year’s theme was “Leadership in Intersecting Crises” and was centered around student and faculty presentations that were offered via zoom breakout rooms. The pandemic altered the format options available and began the start of a new way of hosting the symposium.
The 2020 Alice P. Naylor Award was presented to Dr. Dustin Evatt-Young for his dissertation entitled “White Scripts in Higher Education: White Administrators Navigating Racial Equity and Inclusion Efforts.”
The 2020 Alice P. Naylor Award was presented to Dr. Dustin Evatt-Young for his dissertation entitled “White Scripts in Higher Education: White Administrators Navigating Racial Equity and Inclusion Efforts.”
2019 Annual Ed.D. 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.”
2018 Annual Ed.D. Symposium
The 2018 Doctoral Symposium was held in person on March 23rd. This year was centered around the 10th Anniversary of the creation of the Alice P. Naylor Award. The Naylor Award began in 2009 and was established by Dr. Jim Killacky as a way to both honor former Doctorate Program Director Dr. Alice Naylor and to recognize students with outstanding dissertations.
The main panel was comprised of former Naylor Award winners and was moderated by Dr. Alice Naylor and Dr. Jim Killacky. The panel sought to discuss their role as leaders as well as question whether or not they were doing enough for their communities. Panel members included:
Dr. Angela Wright, Senior Director of the Office of Grants and Strategic Advancement for Wake County Public Schools
Dr. Susan McCracken, Director of Career Development at Appalachian State University
Dr. Danielle Madrazo, Associate Professor and Director of Teacher Education at NC Wesleyan College
Dr. Wayne Matthews, Director of Operations at Surry Community College
Dr. Amie Snow, Instructional Facilitator at Ibraham Elementary School in Winston Salem
Dr. Fran Bates Oates Director of Field and Clinical Experiences at Winston Salem State University
Dr. Leslie McKesson, Dean of Business, Public Services, and Academic Support at Western Piedmont Community College
The 2018 Alice P. Naylor Awards were presented to Dr. Star Brown for her dissertation entitled “Doing, Undoing, and Redoing Collegiate Athletics: Conceptual Tales of Marginality and Mattering” and to Dr. John Robinson for his dissertation entitled “A Postmodern Analysis of the Practice of Using Value-Added Measures to Determent Teachers Effectiveness.”