UC/Accord

Thank you to everyone that was able to make the 2014 UC/ACCORD Conference a wonderful experience! Hope everyone enjoyed the program and left feeling re-energized.

A former fellow wanted to send information to the UC/ACCORD community about 3 faculty positions open in Chapman's College of Educational Studies:

- Assistant/Associate Professor of Teacher Education, Tenure Track
- Open Rank, Tenure or Tenure Track, Disability Studies/Special Education
- Open Rank, Tenure or Tenure Track, Special Education

Please refer to Chapman's job site for more information: https://webfarm.chapman.edu/jobs/jobs.aspx?cat=3

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We are pleased to introduce the 2013-14 UC/ACCORD Dissertation Fellows and Faculty Seed Grant recipient. Check out our website to learn more about them and their exciting work. http://bit.ly/1fVNpHM

University of California Fellowships promote research in educational equity and diversity —... LOS ANGELES (October 23, 2013) —Researchers from UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Los Angeles, UC San Diego and UC Santa Cruz received Fellowships and a Grant for their work in addressing educational inequalities in California’s public school system.

The first few names of the the 2013-14 fellows have trickled out. Welcome to the family, Aggies!

Three Education PhD Students Receive Prestigious UC/ACCORD Fellowships - UC Davis School of... June 2013

though UCSD was one of the few schools that received positive scores in the controversial teacher prep ratings, UC/ACCORD Board Member and UCSD Ed Department Chair Amanda Datnow expressed skepticism.

San Diego Teacher Prep Programs Dismiss New Ratings | KPBS.org A report rating 1,200 teacher preparation programs across the country gave only four California programs high marks. UC San Diego was among those standouts. But many are criticizing the report’s methods.

Sometimes pictures speak louder than words.

http://wapo.st/12yvr3P

The problems facing community colleges — in seven graphs A new report says community colleges are "expected to shoulder the bulk of the challenge" of lifting postsecondary graduation rates -- but many are underfunded.

Still time to get your applications in for this year's dissertation and faculty fellowships. DEADLINE is 5PM TOMORROW
http://bit.ly/10Gu1F6

2013 Fellowship Application — UC/ACCORD All Campus Consortium on Research for Diversity UC/ACCORD will begin accepting proposals for Dissertation Fellowships and Faculty Grants in March

Another tool has come online to provide easy access data on the populations served by California's Community Colleges.
http://scorecard.cccco.edu/scorecard.aspx

2013 Student Success Scorecard In its commitment to increase transfer and degree and certificate attainment, the California Community Colleges Board of Governors has established a performance measurement system that tracks student success at all 112 community colleges.

An estimated 1.7 million undergrads are eligible for federal financial aid, but fail to fill out FAFSA. Of them, 1.1 million are community college students. California has more than a quarter of the nation's CC student population, which is increasingly low-income and non-white. Read this new policy report on how increasing financial aid access can impact not only individual students, but also the state as a whole.

New Research: Increasing Federal Financial Aid Access

Mike Rose promoting "Back to School" with a sit-down with Hector Tobar from the LA Times
http://lat.ms/X1PDeo

On the school of second chances: a Q&A with Mike Rose Each spring across America, thousands of students who once lagged behind their peers get accepted to top-notch universities, thanks to what author Mike Rose calls “second chance” learning. In California alone, 20,000 community college graduates successfully transfer into the University o...

http://www.healthycal.org/archives/11341 Even as Gov. Jerry Brown is pushing to decentralize control of California’s public schools, Roger Dickinson and his allies are, on one issue, pushing back. The Democratic assemblyman from Sacramento County wants the state to intervene to reduce the number of students suspended for defying the author...

Today, the UC Santa Barbara information session begins at 12PM in the Education Building, room 4205. Dr. Laura Romo will be on hand to provide more details about our dissertation fellowship and faculty seed grant programs.