Susan C. Faircloth, professor and director of the School of Education at Colorado State University, joined the NIES Technical Review Panel in 2005 and was appointed its chair in 2016.
TCUs provide pathways to higher education that many Native students would not otherwise have due to geographic isolation, family and community responsibilities and poverty.
Student Affairs in Higher Education graduate Diane Yang completed the program with appreciation for personal and professional growth inspired by the faculty and curriculum.
"It’s how to really make radical transformational and liberatory change for the next generation of students and for our students today.”
"It gave me a lot of confidence that I will do well in the future, and that people recognize my contribution in the field of construction management and in the field of construction management education."
Inspired by a teacher in high school, CaraShea Hughes is graduating with a degree in Family and Consumer Sciences and a teaching licensure endorsement. This fall, she'll join the faculty at her alma mater and hopes to be an inspiration to future students.
Graduate Teaching Assistant Katie Brown leveraged the facilitation techniques and strategies she learned through the Facilitating Adult Learning graduate certificate to move an in-person physiology course to online delivery.
Katelyn Schmidt's graduate journey offers insight into how diverse units within the College of Health and Human Sciences intersect in unexpected ways.
Daniel Birmingham and his co-authors, Angela Calabrese Barton, from the University of Michigan, and Edna Tan, from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, are being recognized for their article sharing their insights with the education field about ways that teachers can more equitably engage students from lower income communities of color.
Ariana Garcia is a higher education doctoral student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She examines the experiences of graduate Students of Color and the educational and career pathways of Students of Color in STEM.