Faculty members honored with awards, receive new grants
High-impact grants total $42 million to date
By Janet Kiplinger Ciccone
The college continues to focus its grant efforts on addressing pressing needs in communities near and far.
Several national organizations honored the college’s faculty with awards last autumn. More are set to be presented this spring. As a highlight, four of the college’s faculty now appear on Education Week’s Edu-Scholar top 200 list, up from three in prior years.
More faculty and staff have won grants that address our core values of excellence, diversity and inclusion, justice and innovation. In October, awards had reached $17 million. Now, in mid-February, total awards equal $42 million.
Grant award updates
Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration Grant
Scott Graves, associate professor of School Psychology and Rhodesia McMillian, assistant professor of Educational Policy, received a $5.2 million, five-year grant to help Columbus City Schools improve mental health services. With funding from the U.S. Department of Education, Graves will focus on three primary objectives:
- Increase the number of highly qualified school psychologists who can provide mental health services in high-need schools
- Improve the quality and quantity of mental health service access for students in these schools
- Increase the number of underrepresented school psychologists
Ohio Urban and Rural Tutoring Partnership for Student Acceleration
Jamie Lipp, the Mary D. Fried Endowed Clinical Assistant Professor of Reading Recovery, Terri Hessler, associate professor of Special Education, and Terri Bucci, associate professor of Mathematics Education, have a $581K grant that is engaging pre-service teachers in tutoring K-12 students at partner schools.
The Ohio Department of Education and the Ohio Department of Higher Education funded Ohio State, among many colleges and universities statewide to address learning delays due to the pandemic. While tutoring, the pre-service teachers gain valuable experience.
To date, 20 pre-service teachers are providing literacy tutoring services to K-12 students. Lipp’s educators work in central Ohio schools; Hessler’s, in schools near Ohio State’s Newark Regional Campus. Bucci’s pre-service teachers are preparing to provide mathematics tutoring in schools in Columbus and near Ohio State’s Mansfield Regional Campus.
$1.4M to create Ohio career and technical education assessments
The college’s Center on Education and Training for Employment is helping schools assess student learning in career and technical education. Bridget McHugh, senior research specialist and principal investigator, and her team partner with dozens of career and technical education instructors throughout Ohio to create course-specific assessments.
By the end of the one-year grant, funded by the Ohio Department of Education, the center will deliver over 350,000 assessments. The team also will maintain a customized scoring and reporting system to serve instructors, school administrators and other stakeholders.
Honors and awards update
Pope-Davis joins Patton Davis, Ford, Moore on Edu-Scholar list
The 2023 list from Education Week, RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence, highlighted Dean Don Pope-Davis, professor of Counseling Psychology, as among the top 200 for influencing public education. He joins the list, along with professors Donna Y. Ford, Special and Gifted Education; James L. Moore III, Counselor Education and Lori Patton Davis, Higher Education and Student Affairs, who have been on the list in prior years.
Also prominent on the list each year is the college’s alumnus H. Richard Milner of Vanderbilt University.
The 200 scholars listed by Edu-Scholar, out of the thousands who work in the field, are recognized as doing the most last year to shape education practice and policy in the United States.
In addition, the 2023 RHSU Edu-Scholar Top 10 Lists, also just released by Education Week, recognized Donna Ford as No. 10 on the Psychology list.
Ford receives national gifted education honor
Donna Y. Ford, EHE Distinguished Professor of Special and Gifted Education, is the recipient of the 2023 Palmarium Award sponsored by the University of Denver. It will be presented to her in March at the annual Gifted Education Policy Symposium and Conference, where she will deliver the award keynote talk.
Goodway recognized by physical education field
The Research Council of SHAPE America, the national organization for physical education, selected Jacqueline Goodway, professor of Physical Education, to receive the SHAPE America 2023 Daryl Siedentop Scholar Award.
The award was renamed in memory of Siedentop, a founding father of sport pedagogy in North America. He hired Goodway while he was dean at Ohio State. Goodway is also the current president of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity.
Hanna earns CFP legacy award, Loibl wins best paper award
Sherman Hanna and Cäzilia Loibl, both professors of Consumer and Family Financial Services, were honored in November with awards from the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) Board of Standards.
Hanna received the Career Legacy Award. The singular recognition, not given every year, acknowledged his long, productive career in preparing students to become Certified Financial Planners and in conducting research.
Loibl was first author with Ohio State colleagues of the journal article winning the Financial Planning Best Paper Award.
Jones and Quaye distinguished by ACPA awards
Susan Robb Jones, professor emerita, and Stephen Quaye, professor, both of Higher Education and Student Affairs, will receive awards in March at the ACPA ̶ College Student Affairs International conference. Jones will be honored with the ACPA Lifetime Achievement Award for her extraordinary, long-term service to the field.
Quaye will receive the ACPA Presidential Citation Award, which is awarded only rarely at the discretion of the president for lifelong service to the field and to ACPA.
Miranda honored with NASP Legacy Designation
Antoinette H. Miranda, professor of School Psychology, received a rare recognition from the National Association of School Psychologists in early February. She was named the 2023 Featured Presenter of the Legends Address for the Legends in School Psychology Series. The title of her talk, delivered at the annual conference, was “Reconciliation and Hope for the Future: School Psychology and DEIJ.”
Miranda is the college’s endowed William H. and Laceryjette V. Casto Professorship in Interprofessional Education.
NASPA names Patton Davis a Pillar of the Profession
Lori Patton Davis, professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs, received a Class of 2023 Pillars of the Profession award from the NASPA Foundation. NASPA is the national association for student affairs professionals in higher education.
Patton Davis is recognized for her sustained, lifetime professional distinction in the field. In her award video, she answers personal questions and discusses her contributions to NASPA.
International award distinguishes Paul’s contributions in disabilities
Peter V. Paul, professor of Special Education, received the King Salman International Disability Research Award from the Saudi Arabia government’s branch of Educational and Psychological Sciences. It is granted to scientists and researchers for distinguished scientific contributions that affected the field of disability.
Paul’s work concerns individuals who are d/Deaf and hard of hearing in special education programs. This award is the largest in the world in this area, and senior scientists from across the globe compete for it.
ACTFL celebrates Troyan’s achievements in language education
Francis Troyan, associate professor of Multilingual Language Education, received the ACTFL-NYSAFLT Anthony Papalia Award for Excellence in Teacher Education. This is the highest award from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, the national organization for language education.