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
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
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,
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 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
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
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
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
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