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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.…

This is the third in 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. The most recent…

The popular #DeafEd Twitter Chat, which engages people worldwide on timely topics in deaf education, will feature Dr. Stephanie Cawthon as their topic expert on November 18. She will lead an online conversation about accommodations and standardized assessment — an essential consideration throughout a deaf student’s education and a focus…

SXSW EDU announced Dr. Stephanie Cawthon’s solo session, The Tyranny of Low Expectations: Ableism in EDU, is scheduled for the 2022 annual conference that fosters innovation and learning in the education industry. It will be on March 8 at 11:30 a.m. in Salon J at the Hilton Austin Downtown. >>…

A new article in the September issue of the Journal of Faculty Development, From Access to Inclusion: A Faculty Learning Community Curriculum, was co-authored by Dr. Stephanie Cawthon and Drs. Sara Schley, Carol Marchetti, and W. Scot Atkins.The Access to Inclusion project designed and implemented a semester-long professional development program…

Dr. Stephanie Cawthon will present a live online workshop, Deaf Students with Learning Disabilities: Frameworks, Data, and Strategies for Support and Success, to the annual conference of the Canadian Educators Association of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (CAEDHH-BC 2021) on Friday, October 22. Born in Canada, Dr. Cawthon is…

This is the second in 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. The first update…

Dr. Stephanie Cawthon has been appointed an affiliate of the Center for Research to Community Impact (CRCI), an interdisciplinary research center at The University of Texas at Austin that is committed to addressing and eliminating disparities in education and health among underserved populations. She joins nine other distinguished faculty members…

This is a guest blog post written by Ana Guadalupe Vielma, one of Dr. Stephanie Cawthon’s mentees. Ana is a third-year doctoral student in the Human Development, Culture, and Learning Sciences in the Department of Educational Psychology at The University of Texas at Austin. Recently featured among St. Edward’s University’s 200…