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Thank you for visiting the College of Education Research page. In addition to training and shaping the next generation of teachers and education policy makers, College of Education faculty have and continue to make enormous contributions to our understanding of education practice and policy.

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Featured Researcher Dr. Ericka Roland

Dr. Ericka Roland, assistant professor, is a South Florida native and critical scholar whose research examines the processes of development around equity and justice in and through higher education environments.

Professor Roland is best known for her scholarship on Black women in higher education, teaching social justice and equity, graduate education, leadership education, and critical theories.

Her work is important as it informs K-12 and higher education practices and policies. She has also advised higher education administrators, philanthropic foundation executives, community partners, and educators in K-12 schools.

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Dr. Cory Forbes

Associate Dean for Research

Director of the STEM Education Research Collaboratorium and Resource Center

Fenton Wayne Robnett Endowed Professor of Science Education

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Email: cory.forbes@uta.edu

Phone #: 817-272-5310

Office: Hammond Hall 420

Research Interests: K-16 Earth systems education: Cory Forbes is the Associate Dean for Research and the Fenton Wayne Robnett Endowed Professor of Science Education in the College of Education at the University of Texas at Arlington. Forbes holds a B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and M.S. in Science Education from the University of Kansas and M.S. in Natural Resources and Ph.D. in Science Education from the University of Michigan. His teaching and research efforts focus on STEM education in K-12 and undergraduate STEM contexts. He directs multiple externally-funded projects involving STEM curriculum development, assessment design and testing, professional development for K-12 STEM teachers, and classroom-based research on STEM teaching and learning that are based in regional, national, and international partnerships with education researchers, STEM faculty, K-12 teachers, and stakeholders. Forbes is a NARST Early Career Research Awardee and Fulbright Faculty Scholar.

Laura Penuel

Assistant to the Dean for Budgets and Finance

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Email: penuel@uta.edu

Phone #: 817-272-6108

Office: Hammond Hall 514

Deborah Letbetter

Accounting Clerk III

Debra Letbetter

Office: HH 508