FACULTY SECURE
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MAJOR GRANTS
In addition to supporting our students on their educational journeys, our talented and diverse faculty are dedicated to conducting impactful research, scholarship, and other creative activities that align with the four priority areas of our strategic plan: community-engaged, culturally sustaining, holistic, and interdisciplinary.
“Ultimately, the idea is that residents will be hired in the participating districts,” says Dr. David Whitenack, Professor of Teacher Education. “The support that they receive after they are hired is also coordinated with the residency partnership so that it’s more of a seamless process.”
This year, numerous faculty secured substaintial grants to address critical needs and create opportunities for our students, our college, our university, and our region. Learn about some of those faculty and their grants on these pages and catch up on other faculty news and stories at sjsu.edu/education/faculty
Dr. Whitenack and Dr. Lisa Simpson, Assistant Professor of Special Education have expanded the work around their teacher residency program with the help of a $600,000 grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Learn more about the residency program and its impact through a podcast and video with them at bit.ly/lurie-lisa-david
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“It is not a secret to those of us in speech pathology,” says Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences Chair Nidhi Mahendra “that California has one of the most dire shortages in the nation of speech-language pathologists and audiologists.” Dr. Mahendra and her department have responded to this shortage by securing a $333,000 grant from the CSU Chancellor’s Office to attract and train more speech therapists. Given all of the events of 2020, Mahendra and her department are also hopeful they will be able to utilize the grant to train a more diverse, justice-oriented wave of students. Listen to our podcast with Nidhi at bit.ly/lurie-nidhi-mahendra
