The semester started yesterday, and my first day of teaching is today! Here’s to Year 4 on the tenure track at the FSU Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences and to creating more joy every day.

#FacultyLife #HigherEducation #AcademicSky #EduSky

How have you been impacted by the changes we've seen under the current administration? What would you want to say to those in charge?

I'm launching a new research initiative to collect and share anonymous stories of the human toll. And I'd be very grateful for your help.

tinyurl.com/thehumantoll

We demonstrate how participants recognize and build hard and soft skills; clarify career interests; receive managerial and organizational support; navigate gender, age, and racial dynamics; and access future professional opportunities.

#AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEdSky #Engineering #Internship

We used multiple sources of longitudinal qualitative data (i.e., timelines, interviews, reflective journaling) to understand how undergraduate students with minoritized gender identities experience internships in engineering.

Our article, "'Do I Even Belong?': Internships as Gendered Career Socialization Experiences in Engineering," was just assigned a volume/issue with the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education! It's always exciting to see "Online First" work move to a permanent home.

psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

New publication out today! @dffeldon.bsky.social, @anniewoff.bsky.social, Kaylee Litson, and I developed and tested a brief intervention to transfer orientation/advising that significantly increases transfer students' beliefs about the value of earning PhDs in CS doi.org/10.1007/s111...

#AcademicSky #HigherEdSky #EduSky #Mentoring #STEM

It's not lost on me that the quote we used for this title might resonate with many working in education at this moment. I firmly believe we can continue to change cultures through individual engagements. Demonstrating this in research and practice is one of the biggest honors of being faculty.

Findings discuss how attributes of equity-minded mentoring shaped participants’ mentoring motivations, benefits, and costs. Participants illustrated how qualities of social exchange (e.g., reciprocity) were often shaped by identity-based experiences and unclear boundaries in doctoral education.

The EM3 supports the goal of viewing mentors’ relational engagement through a lens that attends to identity/ies, power dynamics, and organizational structures.

SET helps one understand reciprocal processes – like mentorship – and we apply its tenets to examine doctoral students’ motivations, benefits, and challenges as they engage in mentorship.

In this study, we examine how US doctoral students in computing-related fields understand their roles as mentors by using a conceptual framework that merges social exchange theory (SET) and the equity-minded mentoring model (EM3).

New pub!

"'We Can Change the Culture Through Those Individual Engagements': Social Exchange and Equity-Mindedness in STEMM Doctoral Students' Roles as Mentors," is newly out with Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education. Find it here (and DM if you don’t have access): doi.org/10.1108/SGPE...

Just Education Policy is coming back! We’re excited to announce that we are planning for an *in-person* Just Education Policy Institute this Fall 2025. Applications & more details will be released in early May. For more info. about the Just Education Policy Institute, visit justeducationpolicy.org.

What an incredible honor to hood Dr. Denise Gonzalez McHale yesterday! Thank you for trusting me from the beginning—a then brand-new faculty member—and allowing me to be part of your journey. You’ll always be part of mine and will forever be the first person I hooded! #graduation #facultylife

Stay safe, FSU community. Active shooter report near the Student Union.

This is the literal destruction of knowledge.

Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

As a born and raised Kansan, I will never get over the fact that I now live in a place that gets tornado warnings but A) has nearly zero basements, and B) has no city-wide tornado sirens. 😩

Big cuts at the Education Department’s civil rights office will affect vulnerable students for years to come by Erica Frankenberg & @maithgopalan.bsky.social theconversation.com/big-cuts-at-...

1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.

🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.

Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.

Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...

I'm super excited to share this short brief on who has power over the Department of Education, what the ED Sec can do, and what Executive Orders can do.

There's a lot of info (and links!) packed into one place. I hope it's helpful. Please share.
drive.google.com/file/d/1QpeK...

Collect 'em all!
go.bsky.app/FLUwv5d