The appointment, effective July 1, 2017, was announced by UB Provost Charles F. Zukoski, who said Dr. Rosenblith emerged from a highly competitive pool of candidates. “Dr. Rosenblith stood out because of her impressive administrative experience, collaborative approach to leadership, creative ideas for approaching issues facing education programs nationally and clear vision for furthering the Graduate School of Education’s mission,” said Provost Zukoski. “That mission is to improve human development, education and the information environment through research, education and engagement.”

UB President Satish K. Tripathi described Dr. Rosenblith as “an ideal candidate to elevate the Graduate School of Education to even greater prominence in the 21 century.” “Dr. Rosenblith is an innovative academic leader who is known for her ability to bring big ideas to fruition,” he said. “With her distinguished record of programmatic success, she will surely advance scholarship in the Graduate School of Education and cultivate the next generation of counselors, librarians and educational leaders while serving as an outstanding advocate for our university’s far-reaching vision.”

During a successful tenure at Clemson, Dr. Rosenblith was integral to the reorganization and reimagining of the university’s College of Education, Provost Zukoski said. “She helped guide faculty and staff through the strategic planning process, expanded and enhanced the school’s relationship with community partners, grew enrollment,” he said, “and introduced a research focus and digital media and learning emphasis within her department.”

Dr. Rosenblith said she is thrilled to join UB and the Graduate School of Education. “The faculty in the Graduate School of Education have a long and impressive reputation for high quality and impactful research. Their collective status as leaders in the field of education – practice, policy and research – is well-deserved. “I am truly humbled to have the opportunity to work alongside them and extend the work already underway.”

Dr. Rosenblith will succeed Dr. Jaekyung Lee, who has served as dean of the Graduate School of Education since 2013. Dr. Lee will return to his full-time faculty role as professor of counseling, school and educational psychology.

Dr. Rosenblith is a prolific scholar widely known for her research on the relationship between religion and public schooling. Her work is grounded at the intersections of educational policy, philosophy of education and educational identity, where she seeks to examine the relationship between religion and education in democratic, pluralist schools.

In 2008, Dr. Rosenblith was one of only three people in the United States who was invited to participate in the United Nations Copenhagen conference on “Education for Intercultural Understanding and Dialogue.”

During her tenure at Clemson, Dr. Rosenblith led the creation or revision of numerous educational programs at all levels in the College of Education, including seven PhD programs, an online Master of Education (MEd) degree, a five-year BA-MEd program, and a transdisciplinary, equity-based STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) initiative. This initiative aimed to diversity STEM disciplines and careers by infusing art and design into educational programs spanning from early childhood through the PhD.

Dr. Rosenblith holds a PhD in educational policy studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a master’s degree in experiential education from Minnesota State University and a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary social sciences from Muhlenberg College.

Provost Zukoski expressed his appreciation to Dr. Marsha L. Lewis, dean of UB’s School of Nursing, and all of the members of the search committee for their outstanding service, which he said was vital to the successful outcome of this search. “I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Jaekyung Lee for his excellent leadership of the Graduate School of Education over the past five years,” Provost Zukoski said.

[From UBNow: Campus News, May 24, 2017]

New country studies are published in the Higher Education Finance and Accessibility in Southeast Asia Website, produced by the HEAD Foundation in partnership with the International Comparative Higher Education Finance and Accessibility Project (ICHEFA) of the Graduate School of Education at the State University of New York at Buffalo. New publications include higher education finance and accessibility profiles of following Southeast Asian countries:

• Brunei
• Cambodia
• Indonesia
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Vietnam

The Terra Conference on English Language Learners (ELLs), organized in cooperation with the departments of Educational Leadership and Policy and Learning and Instruction at the Graduate School of Education, University at Buffalo, took place on Tuesday, October 25 at the Buffalo Marriott Hotel.

This conference provided opportunities for teachers, administrators and future teachers in Western New York to network and share innovative ideas and best practices in the field of English language learning.

Panelists included professors from major research institutions nationally and locally, as well as practitioners at the top of the education field. UB’s own Professor Janina Brutt-Griffler and members of her research team presented initial findings from a study funded by a Terra grant that explores best practices for English language learners in one of the Buffalo Public Schools.

Main Conference Themes

• language learning in a bilingual setting
• challenges and best practices in teaching ELLs
• student perspective
• ELLs and college/career preparedness
• language learning for immigrant/refugee populations

Underlying Conference Themes

• educational equity
• issues of policy and practice

Conference Proceedings

Conference proceedings can be found in the Terra Foundation website. Click here to the proceedings page.

Keynote Videos on YouTube

Dr. Claude Goldenberg: English Learners in US Schools: Research, Findings, and Directions for the Future

Dr. Yasuko Kanno: Neither College nor Career Ready: English Learners’ Transition to Postsecondary Education

Dr. Gerald H. Campano: Honoring Cosmopolitan Communities: Learning with Immigrant Students through Practitioner Inquiry

Dr. Janina Brutt-Griffler, Nadia Nashir, Wilfredo Garcia, Kathryn L. Foy, Namita Thomas, Jon Veenis: Perspectives on Policy and Practices in ELL Education

The D. Bruce Johnstone International Student Dissertation Research Travel Fund, created and endowed by D. Bruce Johnstone, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor of Higher and Comparative Education, is intended to provide qualified doctoral students with financial support to help alleviate travel related expenses during the process of completing their dissertation research in their home countries and/or in other countries outside of the United States. The selected students are expected to pursue innovative and significant research on global and comparative educational topics.

Amount of Award
The amount of award shall be determined by the selection committee but ordinarily should be limited to necessary travel expenses (which may include round trip to the destination country as well as necessary in-country travel) and not to exceed $2,000. An award should be awarded one time during an academic year, in either semester.

Any disbursements made to individuals must be made in accordance with federal and state law and the policies of the State University of New York, which prohibit discrimination on the basis of age, religion, color, disability, national origin, race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity, predisposing genetic characteristics, marital status, veteran status, military status, domestic violence victim status or ex-offender status.

Eligibility
Eligible students must:
1.  be on a student visa;
2.  have written a dissertation proposal in a draft suitable for the advisor to approve the topic and methodology, as well as outline the need for a significant portion of the search to be conducted in a country or countries outside of the United States;
3.  be doctoral students from the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy. If there should be no eligible awardees in an entire academic year from ELP, the selection committee at its discretion may consider applications from doctoral students in the Graduate School of Education.

Application Requirements
Applications must:
1.  contain a letter to the selection committee stating the purpose of the research, the methodology, and the need for the international travel to the student’s home country and/or other countries outside the United States;
2.  include a recommendation from the applicant’s dissertation committee chairperson approving the topic and methodology and the need for a significant portion of the research to be conducted in a country or countries outside of the United States, as well as an indication of the applicant’s progress toward a proposal defense;
3.  attach a plan for the international travel to include tentative dates, places to visit, data to be collected in those places and evidence that the data can be collected (such evidence to include e.g., letters of permission from ministries, government agencies, schools, or universities);
4.  include a travel budget, including approximate ticket prices.

How to Apply
Applicants must submit the complete application package to the Chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy in an envelope. Applications will be reviewed after November 30th during the fall semester and will be considered in the spring semester by April 30th provided that there are funds.

If you have any additional questions about the travel fund, please contact ELP Department Chair Janina Brutt-Griffler at bruttg@buffalo.edu

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

8:00 am – 4:30 pm

Buffalo Marriott Niagara Hotel
1340 Millersport Hwy, Buffalo, NY

The Terra Conference on English Language Learners (ELLs), organized in cooperation with the departments of Educational Leadership and Policy and Learning and Instruction at the Graduate School of Education, University at Buffalo, is on Tuesday, October 25 at the Buffalo Marriott Hotel.

This conference provides opportunities for teachers, administrators and future teachers in Western New York to network and share innovative ideas and best practices in the field of English language learning.

Panelists will include professors from major research institutions nationally and locally, as well as practitioners at the top of the education field. UB’s own Professor Janina Brutt-Griffler and members of her research team will present initial findings from a study funded by a Terra grant that explores best practices for English language learners in one of the Buffalo Public Schools.

• ELL Conference Poster PDF

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Dr. Janina Brutt-Griffler and Dr. Namsook Kim discuss ‘multilingualism and e-learning’ in their chapter that appears in ‘The SAGE Handbook of E-learning Research‘ (2016).

This chapter situates multilingualism in the context of national/transnational language policy initiatives and transnationalism and aligns it with educational initiatives in the domain of the use of technologies and new media (e-learning). It provides a broad discussion of research on the impact and effectiveness of e-learning in promoting multilingualism. From the standpoint of educational policies, we observe a worldwide trend towards introducing foreign/second language education earlier in school systems with the goal of developing advanced levels of proficiency in languages and the concern to give access to linguistic resources to populations across the various occupational domains. Our review of contemporary literature concludes that e-learning–utilizing an extended range of network-based information and communication technologies that include Web 2.0 technologies, software, corpora, mobile phone applications, virtual worlds, technology-supported glossing, an intelligent web-based instruction system, (a)synchronous video-web communication, and tablets–facilitates to promote multilingualism among language users across specific language skills—writing, reading and vocabulary, speaking, and listening—and that e-learning also contributes to twenty-first century teacher education and professional development in the digital era and the notable increase in transnational collaborations in research studies

Click here to view/download the chapter: Multilingualism and Elearning (Brutt-Griffler & Kim, 2016)

The APA Style citation of this book chapter is as follows:

Brutt-Griffer, J., & Kim, N. (2016). Multilingualism and e-learning. In C. Haythornthwaite, R. Andrews, J. Fransman & E. Meyers (Eds.). The SAGE handbook of e-learning research (2nd ed., pp. 187-208). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.

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