2020 Alumni Award recipient Christine Carver featured in the Stamford Advocate.
Author: Leah Ward
Neag School Accolades – Winter 2020
Congratulations to our Neag School alumni, faculty, staff, and students on their continued accomplishments inside and outside the classroom, outlined in this fall’s issue of Neag School Accolades.
Region 10 hires new teaching and learning director
EDLR alumna Vonetta Romeo-Rivers has been appointed director of teaching and learning for Regional School District #10, as noted in The Register Citizen, January 2020.
Former legislator Kelvin Roldan takes big education job in Rhode Island
EDLR alumnus Kelvin Roldan was recently appointed as Rhode Island’s deputy education commissioner, as noted in the Hartford Courant, December 2019.
Here’s why these 3 CEOs joined Lamont’s workforce council
EDLR alumna, Kelli-Marie Vallieres was recently interviewed by the Hartford Business Journal for her role on a Connecticut workforce council.
Sport Management Doctoral Student Recent Success
Ajhanai (AJ) Channel Inez Newton, a doctoral student in sport management, received the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport’s Gary Sailes Award in November. She also co-published “Being Black in a Sea of Color: AA Phenomenological Study Exploring Black Students’ Racial Experiences at AANAPISI and Emerging HSI” for the December issue of Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity.
When urban college campuses lead to gentrification
Santana Mowbray, a current graduate student in the Higher Education and Student Affairs program, writes an op-ed on gentrification and how it has an impact on low-income individuals, as well as racial and ethnic minorities, in the Hartford Courant.
How School Leaders Create the Conditions for Effective Coaching
Lowering financial barriers to higher education is great, but it’s only the first step
Kailee Himes, a graduate student in the Higher Education and Student Affairs program, writes an op-ed about financial needs of incoming students in the Hartford Courant.
Students are telling us what they need, just not where we expect it
Tessa Bravata, a master’s student in the HESA Program writes an Op-Ed on the value students feel when administrators connect with students in a relate-able way, Times Higher Education.