UND College of Education & Human Development Research

NEWS  Dr. Rachel Navarro was named a Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor, which is UND’s highest academic honor. To name a few of Dr. Navarro’s accomplishments, her record of scholarship and research productivity includes 39 refereed journal articles, five refereed published conference proceedings, nine book chapters, and 119 refereed conference presentations. Dr. Navarro has 11 externally […]

NEWS  Drs. Diana D’Amico Pawlewicz and Caitlin Brecklin had a book accepted for publication at Harvard Education Press, entitled “Danger Zones?: How the Politics of Fear Shapes School Safety.” This volume brings together leading researchers from around the country to examine how fear and conceptions of danger and safety are formed beyond the schools and […]

NEWS  Dr. Ryan Flinn will join the editorial board (2025-2026) of the Journal of Counseling Psychology. Dr. Flinn also received an EPPP Preparation Scholarship Award from the University of North Texas, Center for Psychosocial Health Disparities, funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Shaylah Anderson (Advisor: R. Flinn) was selected for a CEHD […]

NEWS  Several CEHD faculty received UND Connect funding, which provides UND faculty and students with the opportunity to engage in community-based research, development, and outreach projects: Drs. Renuka de Silva and Julie Robinson, “Creating Ribbon Shirts and Skirts with Dakota Students: Sustaining Dakota Oyate Cultural Pride”; Dr. Akorede Teriba, “Decreasing Teacher Burnout Through Action Research: […]

NEWS  Dr. Ryan Flinn led a UND team to receive a 5-year (2024-2029), $3,889,250 grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), in partnership with the University of Nevada, Reno, to continue operating the Mountain Plains Addiction Technology Transfer Center for the next five years (2024-2029). CEHD faculty, staff, and graduate students […]

NEWS  Dr. Matt Knutson received a Fulbright Specialist award from the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and World Learning. His project will take him to Germany to conduct research about a local league in the 1980s on the Atari 2600. Dr. Knutson also published “Accessible Sport and ‘Wheelchair Romance’: […]

NEWS  Dr. Laura Link, associate professor of teaching and leadership, provides guidance on maintaining grade integrity in an article for The Conversation, “Teacher lawsuits over forced grade inflation won’t fix unfair grading – here’s what could” https://theconversation.com/teacher-lawsuits-over-forced-grade-inflation-wont-fix-unfair-grading-heres-what-could-225946 Dr. Ryan Summers shared the article linked below that was recently posted by WestEd, which talks about the […]

NEWS  Richard Hoberg has been selected for a Fulbright U.S. Student Research Grant in Norway and to be an American Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) Fellow for the academic year of 2024-2025 .  His project is titled “Investigating Equity in the Reorganization of Norway’s Rural Schools”, which will be conducted at the Norwegian University of Science and […]

NEWS  Dr. Pempho Chinkondenji won the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), 2024 Joyce Cain Award for Distinguished Research on People of African Descent. Pempho received this award for her article titled, “Schoolgirl pregnancy, dropout or pushout?: An Ubuntucentric re-construction of the education for student mothers in Malawi.” Each year with the Joyce Cain Award, […]

NEWS  Dr. Lee Ann Rawlins Williams was featured in UND Today about her recent article in The Conversation on Why Teachers Need, Deserve Mental Health Support. Dr. Williams writes about how, in a forthcoming paper about teacher experiences during the pandemic, she identified four benefits of prioritizing teacher mental health that create a more stable […]