On May 4th the CES honored professor Donna Cucunato for her 34 years of service to Chapman University as she prepares to retire this year. The evening was a celebration of Cucunato’s many contributions to Chapman over the years in the Dance department and College of Educational Studies from helping start American Celebration in the
We are very excited to have two of our Chapman University students who will be participating in the McNair Scholars Program this summer through Claremont Graduate University (CGU)! Njeri Parker, an Integrated Educational Studies major and Martha Rivera, a Psychology and Spanish major, have been selected through a competitive application and interview process to be
Candace Vickers of the Chapman College of Educational Studies and Communication Sciences and Disorders program was recently invited to the first annual meeting of the Aphasia Alliance held at the Adler Aphasia Center in Maywood, New Jersey. Aphasia is an acquired loss of speech and language skills caused by stroke or other brain injury and
Congratulations are in order to our four new Ph.D.s in Education (above, left to right), Stephanie Brown, Christy Neria, Alaine Ocampo and John Erratt! All four have successfully defended their doctoral dissertations and will have their hooding ceremony at Commencement on May 21st! Committee members for Stephanie Brown’s dissertation were Dawn Hunter (chair) Phil Ferguson,
The CES is proud to announce our own School Psychology Student, Molly Siprasoeuth was awarded the Cultural and Linguistically Diversity Scholarship at the California Association of School Psychologists on April 16, 2011. Molly is a second year student who is currently completing her practicum fieldwork in the Los Alamitos Unified School District. Each year CASP
The College of Educational Studies received full accreditation for all seven of their credential programs for the maximum period of seven years from the Commission on Accreditation (COA) on March 18, 2011 in Sacramento, CA. This concludes a series of events that culminated with the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CCTC) visiting the CES in
On Wednesday, November 19th President Obama announced Sylvia Mendez will be one of fifteen people to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. Mendez will receive this honor for her ongoing efforts to share her family’s role in the landmark Mendez v. Westminster case which advanced the cause of civil
Judy K. Montgomery, Professor and Director of Communication Sciences and Disorders in the College of Educational Studies at Chapman University, Orange has been awarded the Honors of the Association Award, the most prestigious, Lifetime Achievement Award, by the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA), the 150,000 member national professional association for speech language pathologists and
Roxanne Miller, Coordinator Secondary Teacher Education Program, is pleased to announce Chapman University students Penny Kim, Secondary Mathematics Teaching Credential Program and Maria Toner, Master of Arts in Teaching: Secondary Science (Chemistry) Emphasis Program have been chosen as winners of AFCEA Educational Foundation STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) Teaching Scholarship awards for 2010. The
Chapman University President Jim Doti read and signed his recently-published children’s book at the annual Orange County Children’s Book Festival on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010 at Orange Coast College. Lisa Mertins, the illustrator was there signing the book as well. President Doti also did a live reading of A Christmas Adventure in Little