This fall, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College congratulates new tenured professors, full professors and non-tenure-track faculty who have been promoted.
Promotions and tenure
David Carlson, professor: Carlson was promoted from associate professor. His primary areas of research include qualitative inquiry, curriculum studies, and gender and sexuality studies in education.
By: Christine Montecillo Leider, Boston University; Michaela W. Colombo, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Erin Nerlino, Boston University
When the final buzzer went off on March 9, 1968, in the Long Beach Sport Arena, the Compton High School boys’ basketball team had not only secured a state championship, but also a place in high school sports history. Compton High School was the first team in California history to win 66 games without a loss and back-to-back undefeated state and national champions. The 50th anniversary of that historic accomplishment — in 2019 — is a record that remains unbroken.
Sarup Mathur has been named the Ryan Courtney Harris Memorial Endowed Professor at Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. A professor of special education in the division of educational leadership and innovation, Mathur is nationally recognized for her work in the field of emotional and behavioral disorders. She is a former secretary and president of the Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders and the past president of Teacher Educators for Children with Behavioral Disorders.
Sierra Ochoa (MA ’21) says she chose the Learning Sciences master’s degree program at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University because, “... it was the perfect educational research program for my interests, personal and professional.” Now she’s putting her degree to work as public programs manager at the world-renowned Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, where she started as an education intern in 2017.
Any would-be changes to education standards and curricula have been sped up, at the hands of the pandemic. Many U.S. teacher preparation programs — including ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teacher College — are already incorporating more digital tools, online instruction and remote learning.
MLFTC recently made the decision to offer some teacher-preparation programs remotely with the goal of making them more accessible to in-state residents who don’t live near a campus.
This month, Sherman Dorn says Americans' misplaced concerns for their kids have helped conspiracy theories flourish; Leigh Wolf and Ray Buss on establishing community in an online EdD program; and Lauren Harris and MLFTC alumna
Whether or not you’re a student or faculty member doing academic research or writing, organizing and reading scholarly literature can be overwhelming. Combing through lengthy text, field notes and reviews can get cumbersome and clumsy, leaving room for errors or plagiarism.
Arizona State University has been awarded two new grants to support education among Arizona’s tribal communities. The Arizona Department of Education is allocating $1 million to the Preparing Educators for Arizona's Indigenous Communities Project. The U.S. Department of Education has allocated $1.4 million to the same project through its Indian Educational Professional Development Program.
In February, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College will host the Next Education Workforce Summit 2022. The virtual event, which will take place over a day and a half, will bring together education leaders and experts, and provide the opportunity to collaborate to redesign the education workforce.