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From the Director - Dr. Robert Gabriner
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From the Director
Dr. Robert Gabriner (gabriner@sfsu.edu)
The focus of this issue is the Northern California Research Symposium held on Saturday, February 15 at SF State. The symposium featured presentations from twenty-one graduates of five CSU educational leadership programs in Northern California: Sacramento; Sonoma/UC Davis; Stanislaus; East Bay and San Francisco. This event was a milestone for the five programs, the first time we worked together on a joint event which brought over 130 students and faculty together to present and discuss findings from recent graduate dissertations.
The symposium program can be accessed here.
We asked two students from the SFSU program to share their reflections on the symposium; you will find their reflections in this newsletter.
If you are interested in applying to our program for the fall 2014 cohort please check our web site: http://edd.sfsu.edu/
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Student Reflections on the First Northern California Research Symposium
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Ms. Marrujo-Duck is a first year student in the SFSU program and a professor of history at City College of San Francisco
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As a first year student caught between the first semester's fresh-faced heady excitement of theoretical studies on how to save our national educational system and the second semester's actual grind of practice methodology, I sooooo.... needed this symposium! The passion with which the newly minted Dr.'s showed off their inquiries, methods, and findings was a vital infusion. If they can do it, I can do it! And if the symposium had met just that goal, I would have been satisfied with how I spent my Saturday. But when the post-presentation discussions began, the thoughtful inquiries and candid answers revealed not only a shared set of interests and goals between all the participants but also a remarkable display of best practices in education that we all aspire to.
You can find the rest of Ms. Marrujo-Duck's reflection here.
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Ms. Rudd is a second year student at SFSU studying women in STEM programs
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