Graduate Research Assistants, 2015–23

Graduate Research Assistants by Campus and Department, 2015–23

In 2015–23, the Institute supported 22 graduate research assistants (GRAs) with mentoring and funding, including 13 from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and nine from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. These GRAs represented diverse academic disciplines and departments as follows:

• UNL Departments of Child, Youth and Family Studies (7), Community and Regional Planning (1), Teacher, Learning and Teacher Education (1), Psychology (1), and Educational Psychology (3)

• UNO Departments of Psychology (7), Special Education (1), and Social Work (1)

Current graduate assistants are listed in Appendix A.

Institute Projects Supported by Graduate Research Assistants, 2015–23

• Superintendents’ Early Childhood Plan Evaluation

• Nebraska Early Childhood Workforce Survey (2016)

• Nebraska Early Childhood Workforce Commission report

• Assessing Classroom Sociocultural Equity Scale (ACSES) validation

• Nebraska Child Care Market Rate Survey

• Wages and Well-Being study

• Multiple efforts funded by the Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five initiative