Tuesday, February 27th 2018, 12:15-1:15pm
Terrace Rooms, Mather Hall, Trinity College, Hartford CT

Updated: see Alvin’s Google Slides presentation and video further below

Alvin Chang is Senior Graphics Reporter at Vox.com, and previously was a data journalist at the Connecticut Mirror in Hartford CT.

Explore his series of interactive digital essays on inequality, poverty, racism, and education:

“We Can Draw School Zones to Make Classrooms Less Segregated,” Vox, January 8, 2018, https://www.vox.com/2018/1/8/16822374/school-segregation-gerrymander-map.

“This Game Shows How College Admissions Discriminates Against the Poor,” Vox, November 1, 2017, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/1/16526202/college-scholarship-tycoon-game.

“The Subtle Ways Colleges Discriminate Against Poor Students, Explained with a Cartoon,” Vox, https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2017/9/11/16270316/college-mobility-culture.

“School Segregation Didn’t Go Away. It Just Evolved.,” Vox, July 27, 2017,https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/27/16004084/school-segregation-evolution.

“Living in a Poor Neighborhood Changes Everything about Your Life,” Vox, June 6, 2016, http://www.vox.com/2016/6/6/11852640/cartoon-poor-neighborhoods.

“This Cartoon Explains How the Rich Got Rich and the Poor Got Poor,” Vox, May 23, 2016, http://www.vox.com/2016/5/23/11704246/wealth-inequality-cartoon.

Video of presentation in four parts:

Co-sponsored by the Educational Studies Program, Educational Technology, Sociology Department, Urban Education Initiative, Bridging Divides Series, and others at Trinity College. For questions, contact [email protected]

Downloadable PDF flyer:

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Apply by September 30th 2018 at https://trincoll.peopleadmin.com/postings/search to receive full consideration. Submit a cover letter (connecting your teaching and research interests with our urban liberal arts college), CV, graduate school transcripts (official or unofficial), a sample syllabus, a sample of scholarly writing, and contact information (including email addresses) for three references. Once a completed dossier is submitted, automatic emails will be generated to each reference provider, directing each referee to a unique URL where he or she must go to upload a letter of recommendation. Applicants using Interfolio (or other dossier service) should provide the appropriate unique Interfolio email address for each reference letter writer.

Trinity College is a coeducational independent, nonsectarian liberal arts college with approximately 2,200 undergraduate students and 200 faculty members, located in Hartford, Connecticut. Candidates should have a strong commitment to undergraduate and interdisciplinary teaching in a liberal arts context, and a well-articulated plan for sustained research. The College is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer committed to attracting and supporting a faculty of women and men who fully represent the racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the United States. We seek applications from minorities, women, and other under-represented groups.

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Trinity College welcomes Dan Douglas as a three-year Visiting Assistant Professor in Educational Studies and Social Science Research Methods, beginning in Fall 2018. Professor Douglas completed his Ph.D. in Sociology at the City University of New York, where he specialized in the sociology of education and research methods, and gained valuable experience in both quantitative and qualitative work. Currently, Professor Douglas is a senior researcher at the Education and Employment Research Center at Rutgers University in New Jersey, where he guides several projects focused on higher education policy and student success and serves as the center’s head of quantitative research.

His dissertation was a mixed-methods study of the social and political history of K-12 teacher evaluation systems, particularly  “value-added” assessment that purports to measure teacher quality based on student performance on standardized tests. He also served as project manager for the CUNY Academic Momentum study of community college student retention and degree completion. His research has appeared in leading journals such as The American Journal of Education, Sociological Quarterly, and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. In addition to educational research, he has also published articles and chapters on social capital during the great recession, Iranian Americans, Armenians in the US, and entries on Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg in The Encyclopedia of African American History.

Professor Douglas is a native of Brooklyn, New York, where he attended public schools. “I’ve always been most at home in classrooms where difference is the rule rather than the exception,” he wrote. In addition, as a first-generation college student, he strives to be a resource and advocate for those who are new to higher education. During Fall 2018, he will teach one section of the introductory Educ 200: Analyzing Schools course and also offer a new course, Educ/Socl 303: Sociology of Education. In Spring 2019, he will teach Socl 201 Research Methods in Social Sciences, and also design a brand-new elective course in Educational Studies. He will also be providing Social Science research support for the Educational Studies, Sociology, and Political Science departments.

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In the fall of 2016, anthropologist Jia-Hui Stefanie Wong was observing students and educators at a high school when the presidential election took place. This winter, she followed up to see what had changed in the last year.

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Come meet with our external reviewers, Professor Grace Kao from Yale University and Professor Lucy Mule from Smith College, in this once-a-decade opportunity to share your feedback about the Educational Studies Program with outside evaluators.

In response to your feedback, we now have TWO student-only sessions on Monday February 5th 2018:

4-4:30pm in McCook 201 conference room
Facilitator: Jennifer Martin ’18

OR

6-6:30pm in Seabury Hall S205 (the classroom where Educ 300 meets at 6:30pm)
Facilitators: Nicole George ‘18 and Julia Burdulis ‘21

Questions to discuss:

• What’s working with the Ed Studies Program?
• What aspects could be improved?
• Your reactions to recommendations in Part 9 of the Ed Studies self-assessment report?

See also the full schedule for this two-day external review.

Updated: Read the Feb 13th 2018 External Reviewer Report by Professors Kao and Mule

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