Negeen Lotfi sits in the midst of the bustling campus Starbucks where students are busily buying their morning caffeine fix before rushing off to class. She is barely seated before she starts discussing her passion for student engagement and why she wants to make it a career. “As an undergrad, I was able to find
Attallah College of Educational Studies donors, students, faculty, staff and friends gathered for the Second Annual Scholarship and Endowed Fellowship Lunch on Wednesday, September 13, 2017 on the Chapman University campus. Undergraduate, graduate and Ph.D. scholarship recipients were recognized and were able to meet the donors who made their scholarship or fellowship possible. A short
An Attallah College lecturer and student teamed up to present at the recent National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) conference in Newport Beach. Chapman University students presenting at conferences may be commonplace, but this presentation was special for several reasons. Integrated Educational Studies senior Madison Spiegel had never presented at a conference before. She had
The Chapman University Chapter of the National Society for Leadership & Success was named the recipient of the 2016-17 Distinguished Chapter. College of Educational Studies Professor Mark Maier serves as the group’s advisor and student Robbie Del Toro is the president. Congratulations on this huge accomplishment! There are more than 730,000 NSLS members at 551 colleges
Guest blog by Florencia Park and Dayna Sipila “Diversity is okay and loving the same sex is okay,” Elora Estes, a student from Yorba Academy of the Arts Middle School’s Journalism class, conclusively read at the second Yorba-Chapman Writing Publishing Party. Estes is one of a handful of Yorba students who voluntarily read their work
Guest blog by Dayna Siplia On the first weekend of April, the students of Mark Maier’s LEAD 414 class made their way to the Yokoji Zen Mountain Center for a class retreat. The weekend included sitting and walking meditations, leadership exercises and opportunities for self-reflection. For many students in the class, this easily became one
CES Leadership Studies PhD student Beatriz Valencia appears in this “Women’s March Los Angeles – Why I march” video. On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of women and men will march in more than 600 cities across the world for gender equality. It’s the 50th anniversary of the original March on Washington in 1967, and Beatriz
Six members of the Integrated Master of Arts in Curriculum and Instruction (MACI) program traveled to Atlanta, GA November 17-20, 2016 to attend and present at the annual convention of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Teacher candidates Kate Markey, Glenda Vargas, Emily Miller, Sandra Loredo, Robert Moser and Victoria Hulett collaborated with
Chapman CES students work extensively with community schools to gain real-world teaching experience in the classroom. From observing teachers as soon as they begin their program, to student teaching themselves, CES is committed to providing practice-based learning within our community. Students enrolled in EDUC 541 recently partnered with Heninger Elementary in Santa Ana to work
Three CES graduate students traveled with their advisor to Atlanta, GA. for the International Leadership Association’s annual conference held November 2-5. The students competed in the International Leadership Association Student Case Study Competition where they were required to choose a social issue and discuss how leadership theories and practices can make an impact in addressing