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Crane Research Forum: Grappling With and Reconciling History to Improve Child Care Access (Zoom)

Join the Crane Center for a very special research forum in partnership with Ohio State’s Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity during which Dr. Chrishana M. Lloyd will examine why the early care and education field is devalued and underfunded.

Dr. Chrishana M. Lloyd, research scholar at Child Trends

Research consistently notes the value of early care and education for children’s development, parental stability, and the productivity of the country. Despite these benefits, navigating early care and education in the United States is a challenging endeavor. There is considerable fragmentation and variability in early care and education systems, access to high quality and affordable care is limited, and pay is low for the workforce. During this research forum, Dr. Chrishana M. Lloyd will facilitate understanding about why the early care and education field is devalued and underfunded using a historical and equity lens. Dr. Lloyd will also share policy and practice recommendations to address these challenges.

Dr. Lloyd is a nationally recognized expert on the challenges facing the early child care and education sector. Drawing from the social sciences and education fields and through a racial equity lens, Dr. Lloyd integrates research findings and policy in ways that improve high-quality and equitable practices to deliver positive impact to communities.

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World-Building, Method-Bending: Activist Approaches to Qualitative Research in This Moment and Beyond (Zoom)

In a moment of mounting political unrest, attacks on academic freedom, and layered educational crises, the QualLab invites scholars and community members to join us on Wednesday, June 26, 2024, for a panel dialogue on what it might mean to embody activist, justice-centered approaches to qualitative inquiry.

Join the QualLab as we engage four top qualitative methodologists – Dr. Wilson Okello, Dr. Michiko Hikida, Dr. Leigh Patel, and Dr. Pauline Lipman – in a dynamic conversation about what it means to engage critically, employ justice-centered methodologies, and center community-engaged scholarship in our current sociopolitical climate.

Registration is open and free to all.
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Updates to NIH Training Grant Applications (Zoom)

The NIH Institutional National Research Service Award (NRSA) Training Grant Program application is undergoing changes that take effect for submissions due on or after January 25, 2025. These modifications impact the PHS 398 Research Training Program Plan Form (the Recruitment Plan to Enhance Diversity will become its own attachment instead of part of the 25-page program plan) and the NRSA Training Tables (NIH is updating the NRSA Data Tables to reduce burden on the research community).

Additionally, for the parent Training Grant Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs), NIH is:

  • Better-defining expectations for mentor training;
  • Clarifying positive career outcomes within the scope of research and related careers aligned with the NIH mission; and
  • Including “Training in the Responsible Conduct of Research” and the “Recruitment Plan to Enhance Diversity” as items that contribute to the overall impact score.

Wondering about the implications for your application preparation? Consider participating in this live, virtual event where NIH experts will provide insights and updates on these changes, concluding with a live Q&A session.

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QualLab Lunchtime Lecture Series: Navigating the Paradox: Black Queer Revolutionary Selfhood and the Limits of Diversity (Zoom)

In this talk, Dr. Morrow discusses the limitation and impacts of mainstream diversity efforts through a technique called Black Queer Revolutionary Selfhood. This talk invites participants to consider the central question: What might it mean to center Blackness, queerness, and joy within higher education research?

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QualLab Lunch with Dr. Leslie Morrow

The QualLab is excited to welcome Dr. Leslie Morrow, 2022 Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellow at OSU’s College of Education and Human Ecology for our next QualLab Lunch! Join us on Thursday, March 21 2024, noon – 1 P.M, for Dr. Morrow’s lecture on “Navigating the Paradox: Black Queer Revolutionary Selfhood and the Limits of ‘Diversity.'”

In this talk, Dr. Morrow discusses the limitation and impacts of mainstream diversity efforts through a technique called Black Queer Revolutionary Selfhood. This talk invites participants to consider the central question: What might it mean to center Blackness, queerness, and joy within higher education research?

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QualLab Lunchtime Lecture Series: Manageable Subjects: Trans Childhoods and Civic Learning in the Elementary Classroom (Zoom)

The QualLab is excited to welcome Dr. Harper Keenan, inaugural Robert Quartermain Professor of Gender and Sexuality Research in Education at the University of British Columbia, for our first QualLab Lunch of 2024! Join us on Thursday, January 18, 2024, noon – 1 P.M, for Dr. Keenan’s lecture on “Unmanageable Subjects: Trans Childhoods and Civic Learning in the Elementary Classroom.” Registration is open now.

In this lecture, Dr. Keenan discusses the epistemological and pedagogical impacts of positioning trans people as unmanageable subjects within the context of K-12 schools in the United States. This talk invites participants to grapple with two focal questions:
How might educators and scholars embrace this unmanageability? What might it look like to practice civic education that resists rigidly scripting the world, including who children can be and become within it?

Fall 2023 By the Numbers Discussion Series: School Punishment By the Numbers

Friday, November 17, 2023, 12:00pm – 1:00pm: Dr. Daniel Losen, National Center for Youth Law

Title: School Punishment By the Numbers

Please join Dr. Daniel Losen, Director of Education at the National Center for Youth Law, for a discussion of recent findings regarding school punishment.

Please read the following Census report authored by Dr. Losen before attending the event:

 

Dr. Daniel Losen

Bio

Daniel J. Losen is the Senior Director for the Education team at the National Center for Youth Law and contributes to the organization’s efforts in the area of education on behalf of all students, especially children of color and others that have historically been discriminated against. Dan’s work includes promoting resource equity, the Honest Education campaign, and fighting against the school-to-prison pipeline at the national state and local levels. Dan oversees staffing for the Education Civil Rights Alliance, a National Center for Youth Law initiative that conducts research relevant to civil rights concerns, and engages in direct advocacy for systemic education reforms at the national, state, and local levels.

Dan came to the National Center for Youth Law with over 23 years of experience as a civil rights lawyer and education researcher as the Director of the Center for Civil Rights Remedies at UCLA’s Civil Rights Project. Dan is the author of several books and award winning reports addressing the racially disparate impact of education policies regarding: special education; school discipline; and accountability for graduation rates of students of color.  Regarded as a national expert on these topics, Dan has also testified about racial inequities in education before the United Nations, the U.S. Congress, the National Academies of Science, and the U.S. Commission on Civil and Human Rights. As a consultant, Dan has provided technical assistance to numerous states and school districts. Dan has also served as an adjunct professor at Harvard Law School, and was a public school teacher for 10 years before entering law school.

When Dan is not working, he can be found playing his sax at a local bar, photographing owls at dusk, or surfcasting for stripers by the light of the moon ’til dawn.

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Fall 2023 By the Numbers Discussion Series: School Segregation By the Numbers (Zoom)

Friday, October 6, 2023, 12:00pm – 1:00pm: Jacqueline Nowicki, Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Title: School Segregation By the Numbers

Please join Ms. Jacqueline Nowicki, the Director of  Education, Workforce, and Income Security at the Government Accountability Office (GAO), for a discussion on recent reports regarding school segregation among US K-12 schools.

Please read the following report written by Dr. Nowicki before attending the event:

K-12 Education: Student Population Has Significantly Diversified, but Many Schools Remain Divided Along Racial, Ethnic, and Economic Lines

Jacqueline Nowicki

Bio

Ms. Nowicki is a Director in the Education, Workforce, and Income Security Team at the U.S. Government Accountability Office. She is responsible for leading GAO’s work on a wide range of pre K-12 issues, including special education, school facilities, K12 COVID spending, equitable access, school climate and safety, and Head Start.  A nationally recognized expert in K-12 education, she regularly testifies before Congress and has made dozens of recommendations to Congress and federal agencies to improve federal oversight and educational outcomes for kids. She also has 25+ years of experience with federal budgeting and grants management issues. Additionally, she teaches a wide range of leadership and writing courses in GAO’s Learning Center, and is a certified diversity and inclusion facilitator.

Ms. Nowicki joined GAO in 1998 and has received numerous awards during her GAO career, including GAO’s Client Services award for exemplary commitment to providing expert and timely service to Congressional clients; two Chief Learning Officers Awards for exceptional commitment to and outstanding performance in redesigning and teaching writing and leadership courses; and both Distinguished and Meritorious Service awards for her dedication to staff development and motivating staff to achieve high levels of performance.

Prior to joining GAO, Ms. Nowicki worked in private sector consulting and led projects on education, job training and social policy issues for state and local government clients, and served as a Senior Fiscal Analyst at the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue. She earned a Master’s degree in public policy from the University of Maryland’s School of Public Affairs and a Bachelor’s degree in finance from Lehigh University. She and her family live in New England.

 

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QualLab Lunch: The Question of Blackness in Qualitative Inquiry (Zoom)

QualLab Lunches are back for Fall 2023! Join us for our first QualLab Lunch of the 2023-2024 academic year – Dr. Wilson Kwamogi Okello, Assistant Professor at Penn State University will discuss “The Question of Blackness in Qualitative Inquiry.” This event will be held on Thursday, September 28th, 2023 from 12 PM to 1 PM.  

In this talk, Dr. Okello discusses how theorizing Blacknessprovides the conditions of possibility for upsettingepistemic, ontological, and axiological foundations thatstructure Western knowledge production and Blackexistence. This talk invites participants to consider thecentral question:
what does it mean to center Blacknessin educational research?

If interested in attending, you may register here: go.osu.edu/okellolunch.  

More information about QualLab Lunches can be found on our website. 

Fall 2023 Speaker Series: Incentivizing Equity? The Effects of Performance-Based Funding on Reducing Racial Disparities in College Completion (Zoom)

Friday, September 8, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm: Dr. Monnica Chan, Assistant Professor of Higher Education, University of Massachusetts-Boston (UMass-Boston)

Title: Incentivizing Equity? The Effects of Performance-Based Funding on Reducing Racial Disparities in College Completion

Dr. Monnica Chan

Bio

Monnica is an assistant professor of higher education at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. Her research examines how higher education policies and practice provide (and limit) students’ opportunities to earn a credential. Of particular interest is how students pay for college – through traditional financial aid, employment, and other resources – and the implications for students’ academic and long-term success.

Prior to joining UMB, Monnica was the director of policy and research at the New England Board of Higher Education.

Monnica earned her Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Program Evaluation from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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