Congratulations to these members of the NIU College of Education family!
Peitao Zhu, assistant professor in the Department of Counseling and Higher Education, has been chosen to receive the North Central Association for Counselor Education and Supervision’s Outstanding Research Award. This award is given to an NCACES member to honor significant research in the profession, including the areas of counseling, counselor education or counselor supervision.
Babatola Arogundade, a doctoral student in the Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision program, will receive an NCACES research grant. Arogundade’s funded project is titled, “Supervising Black Counselors with Intersecting Minoritized Identities: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis.”
Both honors will be presented at the October 2024 NCACES Conference in Rosemont, Illinois.
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Faculty and students in the Department of Counseling and Higher Education were honored, and/or presented, this month at the Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling (AARC) national conference, held from Sept. 5 through 7 in Pittsburgh.
Peitao Zhu, assistant professor, received the AARC Executive Council Member. Doctoral student Priyanka Jha was honored as AARC 2024 Emerging Leader and a recipient of the AARC 2024 Sponsored Scholarship Program ($2,495).
Both were among the NIU presenters of 11 different talks. The group also includes assistant injprofessors Injung Lee and Timothy “T.J.” Schoonover, along with students Babatola Arogundade, Kavita Khara, Yasmin Ramos, Madelaine Romito and Yixin Xu.
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Michael Manderino, associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and Eric Junco, the college’s director for Equity, are among the newly named co-editors of the International Literacy Association’s Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy.
Composed of renowned scholars and practitioners in the field of literacy education, this team brings together a wealth of experience and expertise to lead the next chapter of the field’s foremost peer-reviewed journal dedicated to learners ages 12 and older. Their term concludes June 30, 2028.
The team’s vision is grounded in a commitment to social justice, critical literacies and civic engagement. Their shared interests include disrupting challenges and injustices in literacy practices; deconstructing ideologies; amplifying silenced voices; and fostering the exchange of global and local knowledge.
“We are a multi-institutional, multi-racial and multi-cultural team that represents a multifaceted team,” the team stated. “Collectively, we embrace literacies as inclusive, expansive, empowering and centered on praxis. We will call attention to the erasure of the contributions from, and ingenuity within, educators and communities that have been historically excluded and marginalized.”
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