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Department of Adult & Higher Education
Welcome to the Department of Adult and Higher Education. Our mission is to advance the scholarship, research, and practice of adult and higher education with a commitment to the preparation of professional practitioners, scholars, and researchers. We welcome your interest in our department and programs.
Announcements
Drs. Diane Chapman and Audrey Jaeger Receive 2008-2009 Outstanding Extension Service Award
Dr. Diane Chapman and Dr. Audrey Jaeger have been named as Outstanding Extension Service Award recipients for the College of Education and will participate in the induction into the Academy of Outstanding Faculty Engaged in Extension (AOFEE). This award is given in recognition of their dedication and demonstrated achievements in serving the people of North Carolina and also providing scholarship in these efforts. Dr. Chapman will also be receiving the 2007-2008 Alumni Outstanding Extension Service Award.
On Monday, April 20, 2009, Dr. Chapman and Dr. Jaeger will join all award winners andl be honored during the "Celebrating the Engaged University" awards ceremony to be held at the McKimmon Center for Extension and Continuing Education.
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Diane Chapman Named 2009 Parks Todd Award Winner
The North Carolina Distance Learning Association (NCDLA) has awarded Dr. Diane Chapman, its 2009 Parks Todd Award for Distinguished Service to the Field of Distance Learning. The award is presented annually to recognize individuals who are leaders in planning, implementing, and managing distance learning programs in North Carolina, have shown leadership in extending the reach of distance learning programs, and have furthered the role of distance learning in the NC educational community.
Kudos to Alyssa Bryant
Dr. Bryant has been awarded funding on a new grant "The Impact of Campus Context, College Encounters, and Religious/Spiritual Struggle on Ecumenical Worldview Development by Gender, Religion/Ideology, and Race/Ethnicity" to be supported by the Templeton project, Spirituality in Higher Education: A National Study of Students’ Search for Meaning and Purpose.
Kudos to Paul Umbach
Dr. Umbach was recently featured in Inside Higher Education, April 20th, in “The Part-Time Satisfaction Gap” from a presentation at the American Education Research Association. The focus of his research concerned adjunct, part-time faculty and their satisfaction with their positions.
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Special Information Session for Prospective Students - May 12th
A special information session for individuals interested in applying for department graduate programs will occur on Tuesday, May 12th at 5:30pm. in Poe Hall 512. This session will feature an overview of the department and the admissions process. The latter half of the meetings will be spent with a discussion of specific program areas of interest (Adult Education and Community College, Higher Education Administration or Human Resource Education). This meeting will speak to academic opportunities in the Department and to respond to your specific questions. (Because this meeting is after the completion of the spring semester, individual faculty representatives of each area will not be present. However, the department speaker will be able to respond to most curriculum questions.)
The posting of next year’s Open house information sessions for prospective students will occur again in September, 2009. There will not be sessions during the summer break.
If you have any questions prior to the meeting, please contact Ms. Shana Scott, Graduate Program Assistant at 919.515.6238 or shana_scott@ncsu.edu
Visitor parking for orientation: Take Hillsborough Street to Pullen Rd. and take a right onto Dunn Avenue.
Take your first left onto Jeter Drive to find the Reynolds Coliseum parking deck on your right. Make sure not to park in the lower level or you'll have to pay. The upper decks are not pay lots. You will make your way back towards Dunn Avenue to cross that street and make your way down the steps and under the train tunnel. On the other side are a parking lot and our new Mathematics Bldg. which is still under construction. Once you get past that you will find yourself at Stinson Drive. Poe Hall will be directly in front of you.
See the following map for more information:
http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/
2009 Graduate Student Poster Competition-Department of Adult and Higher Education
Sponsored by the Adult Education and Training and Development Graduate Student Association.
Congratulations to our all of the doctoral and masters students who participated our poster competition on March 16th. You are encouraged to participate next year.
Beyond the listing below, we also congratulate Dr. Maura Murphy who was awarded 2nd place for her dissertation research in the Graduate School Poster Session held on March 18th.
Dissertation Research:
Maura Murphy - 1st place
Contingent Faculty: What impacts their organizational commitment?
Adult Education and Training & Development:
- Amy Orders, Shari Wicker, & Tara Bass - 1st place
Reflective Practice in Medical Education - Rhonda Welfare - 2nd place
An exploration of lateral entry career and technical education teachers’ first year professional development experiences. - Barbara Metelsky & Hassel Morrison - 3rd place
Multiculturally competent program planning: “Planning the face of power.”
Higher Education Administration, Educational Leadership, Education Research & Policy Analysis, Adult and Continuing Professional Education:
- Toni Cerbo - 1st place
Negotiating Identity: Voices from Female Muslim College Students in the Southeastern U.S. - Kimberly Harris - 2nd place
Determining the Relationship between Study Abroad and Graduation Rates - Heather Campbell - 3rd place
Understanding leadership development experiences of women college presidents who attended women’s colleges.
Information Sessions for Prospective Students
Information sessions feature an overview of
the department and the admissions process. The latter half of the meetings will
be spent with a faculty member from your program area of interest (Adult
Education and Community College, Higher Education Administration or Human
Resource Development) to discuss your questions and concerns. This meeting
will speak to academic opportunities in the Department, get your questions
answered, and give you the opportunity to personally meet with a faculty member
in the program.
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last updated 06/12/09
