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Dr. Kate Cassada, associate professor and assistant chair of the Educational Leadership & Policy Studies program and director of the Center for Leadership in Education, is a regular Forbes contributor, sharing and helping an international audience make sense of K-12 decisions and practices in the U.S.
Education professor Lisa Micou authored this piece.
As part of a long-standing tradition, a graduating student, faculty member, and an alum will address School of Professional and Continuing Studies graduates during the the School’s graduation ceremony at 9 a.m. on Saturday, May 11.
Geology professor David Kitchen is quoted.
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Ma’asehyahu Isra-Ul, SPCS adjunct assistant professor of education and founder of the Black Judaic Heritage Center, gives a talk titled Through The Spectacles of Ethiopia: Garveyism, Black Judaism and the Virginia Commonwealth at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture.
View BioTom Shields, associate dean and chair of graduate education, with Emmy Ready, visiting lecturer of Latin American, Latino & Iberian studies, co-authored an A&S Next case study titled “Multilingual Student Success in Public Schools” examining issues of Latinx students’ graduation and retention rates in Richmond Public Schools. Alums Lyons Sanchezconcha, GC’23, Victoria Case Gochez, GC’22, and Jonathan Zur, ’03, collaborated on the project.
View BioDaniel L. Hocutt, SPCS web manager and adjunct professor of liberal arts, published “Composing with Generative AI on Digital Advertising Platforms” in a special issue on composing with generative AI in Computers and Composition.
View BioAnn Hodges, SPCS paralegal studies program chair and professor of law emerita, is featured as a labor market expert in a WalletHub article, Hardest-Working Cities in America (2024) and carried by Newsweek. Hodges answers questions about worker productivity, employee engagement, and employer contributions to workers’ quality of life.
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