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COE faculty receive $1.25 million grant to support doctoral students studying alternative schools  College of Education Associate Professors David Houchins and Kris Varjas recently received a $1.25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education for a project designed to support special education doctoral students who want to conduct research in alternative school settings.
"There's a great need for this collaboration between special education and mental health, and that's really the foundation for the project," Houchins said. "We want to expose students to research, service and professional development opportunities in these fields." Project Leaders (Leaders in Exceptionalities Alternative and Delinquency-Related Environments through Research and Scholarship) is a collaboration between the Department of Counseling and Psychological Services and the Department of Educational Psychology and Special Education to prepare a cohort of six full-time doctoral students to study and improve academic and mental health services for students with mild disabilities in alternative schools and the professionals who serve them. Students must be certified in special education, have taught for at least three years and have a desire to work in higher education. Students in the program will have a combination of classwork and field experiences in local schools as they work toward earning a Ph.D. in special education with an emphasis on academics and mental health issues of students in alternative schools. The grant funding allows each student to receive up to $30,000 annually. A tuition waiver is provided through a graduate research assistantship. Additionally, monies are provided to cover the cost of textbooks and supplies, dissertation research, travel to academic conferences and other program expenses. Each program student can receive up to $178,000 over the course of the project. To read more about Project Leaders and the grant funding, click here.
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Upcoming Events in the College of Education
3rd Annual Have a Heart Benefit and Silent Auction
February 12, 2012
6 p.m. 
Callanwolde Fine Arts Center
980 Briarcliff Road
Atlanta, GA 30306
Join the College of Education Alumni Club for an evening of dining and entertainment while supporting a worthy cause. Proceeds from the fundraiser will benefit Project One-on-One, an educational mentor initiative through the Children's Restoration Network.
For more information, please contact Elisa Tate, alumni club coordinator, at etate2@gsu.edu.
***************************************************************************** Blurring Boundaries: An International Educational Development Conference April 10-11, 2012  Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel 210 Peachtree Street Atlanta, GA 30303 The Blurring Boundaries Conference, co-sponsored by the United Nations Academic Impact and the Committee for Teaching about the United Nations, will offer two days of panel sessions, symposia and keynote addresses, allowing scholars and leaders to gather and exchange international research on child development, health and mental health, schooling, indigenous education, neuroscience and other relevant topics, which will inform the partnership work of universities worldwide in their educational development efforts. For more information, click here.
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