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,
School Psychology Student Recieves Prestegious Scholarship
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
Dr. Jeff Duncan-Andrade, "Note to Educators: Hope Required When Growing Roses in Concrete"
Dr. Jeff Duncan Andrade presented “ Note to Educators: Hope Required When Growing Roses in Concrete” to a standing room only Chapman’s College of Educational Studies community on March 18, 2011. After a riveting presentation linking post traumatic stress syndrome with conditions in urban school, doctoral students conducted a lively fireside chat. Dr. Duncan Andrade is
The College of Educational Studies Receives Full Teacher Education Accreditation
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
CES Leadership Director, Mark Maier Moderates Leadership symposium "Truth, Lies & O-Rings: Lessons From Challenger"
This extraordinary symposium held on January 24, 2011 offered insight into the leadership practices that contributed to the Challenger disaster, and discussed how these practices continue to harm business and government today. By exploring how certain leadership styles generated a cascade of failures – from the space shuttle catastrophes to the Enron and Madoff debacles
Sylvia Mendez Honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom
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
Dr. Montgomery receives Lifetime Achievment Award from ASHA
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
"Race to Nowhere" Film Screening and Q&A with Director Vicki Abeles
Chapman University’s College of Educational Studies is pleased to host an evening with a screening of Race to Nowhere, produced and directed by Vicki Abeles. A mother of three and former Wall Street attorney, Abeles awakened to this crisis while in a hospital emergency room as her 12-year old daughter was being treated for stress-related
CES Students Win AFCEA Educational STEM Teaching Scholarships for 2010
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