Dissertation Award Recipients
College of Education Dissertation Award Recipients
College Dissertation Awards offer competitive support for graduate student dissertation projects. The program is administered by the Bureau of Educational Research and the College Research Committee.
2024-2025 Dissertation Award Recipients
| Megan Best | Special Education | Charting the Course: A Mixed Methods Investigation Into Special Educators' Role in Enhancing Transition Services for Students with Disabilities |
| Adetutu Fabusoro | Education, Policy, Organization & Leadership | Experiences of Nonnative English-Speaking Employees in U.S. Organizations: Role of Communicative Competence and Linguistics Profiling on Acceptance, Performance Perception and Career Development |
| Mostafa Hanafy | Education, Policy, Organization & Leadership | 'Ungrading’ as a Transformative Assessment Strategy: A Case Study from a Midwest Selective Admission High School in the United States |
| Hannah Kuneyl | Education, Policy, Organization & Leadership | In the Hearts of Men: From Industrial School to Community College 1903-1983 |
| Aigul Rakisheva | Education, Policy, Organization & Leadership | Teaching for Tomorrow: The Effects of Inclusive Sustainability Education on Pre-Service Teachers’ Knowledge, Efficacy, and Classroom Intentions |
| Taiylor Rayford | Educational Psychology | 'Hope for the Best, Expect the Worse': A Framework for Understanding Belonging Fulfillment Among Black Graduate Students |
| Shiyu Sun | Educational Psychology | Name-based Discrimination Among International Students in Higher Education Introduction |
| Armando Torres | Education, Policy, Organization & Leadership | Multiplying the 'Multiplicador': A Liberatory Learning Framework for Digital Transformation |
| Cecilia Vaughn-Guy | Education, Policy, Organization & Leadership | The Garden Within: The Perspectives of Black Women on Organizational Participation and Organizational Justice as Frontline Healthcare Employees |