CES Student Receives AFCEA Scholarship
The CES is pleased to announce that Chapman University student Ashley Hurlock, Master of Arts in Teaching: Secondary Science (Biology) Emphasis Program, has been chosen as winner of a $5,000 AFCEA Educational Foundation STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) Teaching Scholarship award for 2011. This is the second consecutive year that students from Chapman’s secondary science/math teacher preparation program have
CES Honors Honorary Doctorate Recipient and Launches the Dr. Ruebén Martinez Legacy Campaign
On Friday, June 3rd the College of Educational Studies honored Presidential Fellow, Dr. Ruebén Martinez at an event to celebrate his honorary doctorate that he received at commencement this year. At the event the CES also to announced the launch of the Dr. Ruebén Martinez Legacy Campaign. The Legacy Campaign will raise money to create
CES to Co-Host the First Annual Emerging Scholars Conference
On September 23rd and 24th, 2011 the College of Educational Studies and the School of Law will co-host the First Annual Emerging Scholars Conference. The conference will explore issues of disability, diversity, and human rights in education, the social sciences, humanities, and law. There will be paper presentations by emerging scholars—including doctoral students, law students,
Commencement 2011
On May 21st, 2011 Chapman’s College of Educational Studies held it’s Graduation Commencement. As part of the celebration the CES was proud to give two Honorary Doctorates this year. The first Honorary Doctorate went to Ruebén Martinez, a Chapman Presidential Fellow and MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 2004. Mr. Martinez was honored for his extensive work
CES Present in the Community
One of the issues facing most teacher training institutions is bridging the gap between theory and practice or, in other words, some university programs truly are ivory towers. In our teacher credential programs, a key element is providing real world experiences for aspiring educators, which is not only accomplished through intensive fieldwork and student teaching
CES Honors Reception
The College of Educational Studies celebrated its annual Honor’s Reception on May 20, 2011 with over 225 people in attendance. Our motto in the College of Educational Studies is Changing Education, Changing the World because we believe that we can change the world through education. In the field of education, our world is about children
Retirement Celebration for Professor Donna Cucunato
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
IES Student Chosen for McNair Scholarship
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
CES's Candace Vickers, Ph.D. at First Annual Aphasia Alliance Meeting
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 to our new Ph.D.s in Education!
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,