College of Education News

Dimpal Jain received an NSF grant for $3 million dollars. The grant is titled “Creating Opportunities for Minoritized Undergraduate Students to Participate in Mentored Research” with Gaby Chavira, Crist Khachikian, Melanie Bocanegra, and Chris Stanford as Principal Investigators.  Dr. Jain will serve as a faculty fellow. Congratulations, Dr. Jain! Read more

Stress and upheaval are harmful at any time, but the pandemic has forced many families onto a roller coaster ride that seems unending. Families and caregivers are concerned about what this period of great instability means for their children, so the LA Times turned to psychologist Dr. Jennifer Vargas Pemberton (Educational Psychology & Counseling), who has worked with children and teenagers for decades, for some answers. Read more on the LA Times

Congratulations to Dr. Zhen Chai and the rest of the Project CREATE team for receiving a United States Department of Education award in the amount of $1.1 million. The purpose of this project is to support a newly modified Early Childhood Special Education Preliminary Credential Program and to prepare competent culturally responsive early childhood special educators/early interventionists who will be eligible for the California Preliminary Education Specialist Credential. Read more

Participants are kindly asked to watch translucent prior to this event by using the link below. translucent is the moving 24 minutes documentary about a young adult's gender transition journey and was a finalist for the 48th annual Student Academy Awards. CSUN alum, Avery Fox, the subject of the documentary and co-director of the film will join a diverse panel of varying perspectives on the topic of how educators and families can best support transgender individuals. Q&A will be encouraged. this session is intended to build on and go deeper into issues touched on in last semester's panel discussion. Read more