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Dr. Shirin Antia died on February 6th, 2022. I can’t believe I wrote that sentence. Shirin has been a part of my academic life since I had an academic life. She was at my first professional conferences in the US (AERA in New Orleans, 2000) and internationally (ICED in Australia, same…

Education, like many of our social structures, is in a period of reckoning as it strives to become more equitable. Our educational institutions — both K-12 and higher education — have received calls to action to become more inclusive, amplify marginalized perspectives, and address historical biases against many in our…

This is part of a series of HDCLS area chair updates by Dr. Stephanie Cawthon, written for Human Development, Culture and Learning Sciences (HDCLS) students, faculty, and staff in the Department of Educational Psychology at the College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin.Does anyone else feel like…

This guest blog post is written by Cassie Franklin, BSW, MS, a fierce momma bear of twin tweens, one hearing and one deaf. She has over 20 years of experience supporting access for deaf people as they navigate barriers in education, one layer at a time. Cassie also loves coffee,…

Dr. Stephanie Cawthon is the lead author of two new publications that address the unique challenges that deaf students face when it comes to testing and offer steps on how to improve accessibility and equity of assessments. Accessibility Planning for Postsecondary Entrance and Placement Exams for Deaf Students by Stephanie W.…

In a guest blog post for the National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes (NDC), Dr. Stephanie Cawthon — who founded NDC in 2017 and served as its director until January 2021 — explains the key ways that faculty in colleges and training programs can boost outcomes and achievements of their…

This blog post is brought to you by some intensive reflection on leading with vulnerability, courtesy of Dr. Brene Brown. Her emphasis on removing your armor and allowing for vulnerability to be a part of who you are and how you lead is influential in my thinking about what it…

A popular assumption is more deaf people are continuing their education because high schools, training programs, colleges, and universities are now more accessible to a wider range of deaf people — thanks to a myriad of factors, including the Americans with Disabilities Act, parental advocacy, and the work of organizations…

As I write this, it is the end of November, just past Thanksgiving and Indigenous People’s Day. I have just finished a check on student posts about their final projects in my online course — the lurch to the finish line has begun. While it is technically the weekend, we’re all…

First-Generation CORE Project: Cultivating Opportunities, Resources & Equity, led by doctoral student Ana Guadalupe Vielma with faculty support from Dr. Stephanie W. Cawthon, has been selected to receive an Actions that promote Community Transformation (ACT) seed grant from the Vice Provost for Diversity at The University of Texas at Austin.…