IF' College of Education
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Office of Educational Research
September 2006

Office of Educational Research Bulletin (ORB)

News & Notes

Welcome back!

The OER has many exciting initiatives lined
up for the fall semester, most notably the
implementation of training sessions resulting
from the survey we conducted last spring. We
will be announcing these training sessions
throughout the semester, so please stay tuned!

During the last academic year, the Research
Initiatives Task Force helped the OER to
prioritize and develop the ideas set forth
during the faculty retreats. Many are already in
progress, and several have been finalized. We
plan to officially unveil the products of this
important work on Friday, September 8,
before we begin the IFAS Grant Writing
Training follow-up session. Come see for
yourself and help us celebrate our
accomplishments!

Please mark your calendars for the following
OER-sponsored events:

September 8: IFAS Follow-up Meeting:
Grant Writing Workshop

9:00a.m.-1:00p.m. Terrace Room. Lunch
will be served. Please RSVP to Ana:
anapuig@coe.ufl.edu by Monday,
September 4.

September 18: First OER Sponsored
Brown-Bag of Fall Semester:

Topic: "Public Scholarship."
Host: Dean Emihovich

Interest in rethinking the nature of research in
higher education has markedly increased over

the last 15 years, beginning with the
publication of Boyer's book, "Scholarship
Reconsidered Redefining the Priorities of the
Professoriate," in 1990. Since then, the Kellogg
Foundation released a report in 1999 on
engaged scholarship in land grant institutions,
and AERA has recently published a book,
"Education Research and the Public Interest
(2006). The terms 'engaged scholarship,'
'outreach scholarship,' and 'public
scholarship,' are often used interchangeably
but may have subtle differences that leave
faculty wondering how research will be
viewed in the future. Issues to be explored in
this discussion will include:
The changing landscape of higher
education research, especially in more
applied fields such as education
Linking research with advocacy and
social justice issues
Implications of these new paradigms
for UF and the College of Education

The chapter, I' .- Scholarship, "has been placed
in E-Reserve for your review prior to the
session. Please follow these instructions to
access it:

Go to our library homepage at
www.uflib.ufl.edu.
-Click on "Course Reserves," which is located
under the "Find" column. This will take you
to the E-Reserves Home Page.
-Click on the "Course Reserves" link on the
E-Res home page.
-Search by "Instructor" and type in
Emihovich.
-Click on course number.
-Click on "Agree" on the Copyright
Agreement page.
-Download PDF.

Faculty Professional Development
Training

The first training session of the Faculty
Professional Development Training Series
has been scheduled:

Topic: Grants.gov
Location: Terrace Room
Date & Time: Tuesday, October 10, 2006
from 10:00a.m. 1:00p.m.

Bring your laptops! Wireless interest
connection is required. OER will have laptops
available as well. Space is limited to 25
participants. Please RSVP to Ana by Friday,
September 29.

August Awards and Submissions

Congratulations are in order to Maureen
Conroy and Ann Daunic for their National
Institutes of Health award to support their
proposal: Investigating Functions ofProsocial
Behaviors in Children with Autism; to Buffy
Bondy for her award from the City of
Gainesville to support her Bright Futures Project
proposal; and to Fran Vandiver for the FL
Department of Education award that will
support her proposal: Title II, PartA Teacher
and Principal Training and Recruiting Fund. Best
wishes go out to Linda Hagedorn for her
proposal to the Lumina Foundation for
Education; Fran Vandiver for her proposal
to the FL Department of Education; and to
Walter Leite and Luis Ponjuan for their
submissions to the AERA Grants Program.
For more details about these awards and
submissions, see the tables on the next page.

Ana & Paul

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College of Education Funded Projects August 2006
Principal Investigator: M.A. Conroy Co-PI: A.P. Daunic
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Proposal Title: Investigating Functions of Prosocial Behaviors in Children with Autism
Project Period: 08/01/06 07/31/08
Annual Award Amount: $139,538

Principal Investigator: E. Bondy
Funding Agency: City of Gainesville
Proposal Title: Bright Futures Project
Project Period: 08/16/06 05/15/07
Annual Award Amount: $42,649

Principal Investigator: F.M. Vandiver
Funding Agency: Florida Department of Education
Proposal Title: Title II, Part A Teacher and Principal Training and Recruiting Fund
Project Period: 07/01/06 06/30/07
Annual Award Amount: $27,105

College of Education Submitted Proposals August 2006
Principal Investigator: L.S. Hagedorn
Funding Agency: Lumina Foundation for Education
Proposal Title: Dual Pathways: Support and Training of Achieving the Dream Data
Facilitators and Community College Institutional Researchers
Requested Amount: $1,664,181

Principal Investigator: F.M. Vandiver
Funding Agency: Florida Department of Education
Proposal Title: Carl D. Perkins Secondary Vocational Program
Requested Amount: $25,000

Principal Investigator: W.L. Leite
Funding Agency: AERA Grants Program
Proposal Title: Children Who Change Schools and Their Academic Growth: Identifying
Family Factors that Reduce the Risk of Lower Academic...
Requested Amount: $35,000

Principal Investigator: L. Ponjuan
Funding Agency: AERA Grants Program
Proposal Title: Underrepresented Faculty in Academia: Academic Workload and Job
Satisfaction
Requested Amount: $35,000

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