In and Out of the Archive - 1/23/09 through 1/24/09

We are pleased to present In and Out of the Archive: Archival Practice and Political Information in the Early Modern Period, a conference hosted by the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at UCLA. The conference is co-sponsored with the UC Riverside Department of History, the UC Riverside Humanities Center, the UCLA Department of Information Studies/Center for Information as Evidence, and the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies.

Friday and Saturday, January 23 - 24, 10 AM. Includes lunch. Free for UCLA faculty, staff and students. The conference is organized by Randolph Head (UC Riverside) and Jennifer Milligan (Harvard University), with special thanks to the Thyssen Foundation.

Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited, and conferences frequently reach capacity. Registration is required.

Linda Sax: Chronicle of Higher Education

Today's Chronicle of Higher Education features an article by Sudikoff Fellow and Associate Professor Linda Sax, called Her College Experience Is Not His.

Gary Orfield: The Sprint

Education Professor Gary Orfield argues that candidates should tackle Iraq war, international affairs, migration.

Patricia Gandara: The Sprint

Education Professor Patricia Gandara argues that we should make education an issue.

Linda Sax: The Gender Gap

Women have the numbers but find college is still a struggle.

UCLA Writing Project Korean Academy

UCLA summer program strengthens writing skills for Korean students.

Ifeoma Amah - Outstanding Graduate Student

Ifeoma Amah ’02 has been named a 2008 Outstanding Graduate Student. Amah received her bachelor’s degree in psychology and a minor in education from UCLA in 2002. She is currently a doctoral candidate in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies (GSE&IS), Division of Urban Schooling.

UCLA Announces Partnership with LAUSD

The UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies has been selected as the Los Angeles Unified School District's first partner to operate one of five pilot schools united by a social justice philosophy.

Bruin Community School Backgrounder

Get the basics on UCLA's new partnership with LAUSD, Bruin Community School.

Professor Johanna Drucker Joins IS

Professor Johanna Drucker has joined the faculty of the UCLA Department of Information Studies as the inaugural holder of the Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professorship in Bibliography.

Professor Drucker is a highly distinguished, creative and prolific cultural historian and visual theorist, whose publications include Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity (University of Chicago Press, 2005), Theorizing Modernism (Columbia University Press, 1994), The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art (University of Chicago Press, 1994), The Alphabetic Labyrinth (Thames and Hudson, 1995), and The Century of Artists' Books (Granary Books, 1996). She is also a skilled printer and is internationally known as a book artist. She comes to UCLA from the University of Virginia, where she held the Robertson Chair in Media Studies in the Department of English and served as the first director of the Media Studies program she developed there. Prior to her appointments at Virginia, she was on the faculties of Purchase College, SUNY; Yale University; Columbia University, and the University of Texas, Dallas.

Ernest Morrell Wins Distinguished Teaching Award

Education Department Chair Sandra Graham has announced that Ernest Morrell is this year's winner of the Education Department Distinguished Teaching Award.

Ernest Morrell is an associate professor in Urban Schooling and Associate Director for Youth Research at the Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access (IDEA) at the University of California at Los Angeles. For more than a decade he has worked with adolescents, drawing on their involvement with popular culture to promote academic literacy development. Morrell is also interested in the applications of critical pedagogy in urban education and working with teens as critical researchers. Morrell is currently involved in a research project examining the applications of critical pedagogy in several classrooms across Los Angeles. Additionally he is working with colleagues in IDEA to develop a Mayor's Council of Youth Researchers, which will involve local teens in research that contributes to educational reform and social justice. For the past ten years he has also been involved in a summer seminar where urban teens conduct research project in local neighborhoods and schools.

Morrell previously taught English for six years at Oakland High school in Northern California where he was nominated five times for "Who's Who Among America's High School Teachers" and was recognized by the Oakland Unified School District, Oakland Community Organizations, US Congresswoman Barbara Lee, and the California State Senate for his service to the Oakland Public Schools. At UCLA Morrell teaches courses on critical pedagogy, English methods, literacy theory, activist research, and Pan-African Education. Morrell is the 2007-2008 recipient of UCLA's Department of Education Distinguished Teaching Award.

Morrell is the author of four books, Linking Literacy and Popular Culture: Finding Connections for Lifelong Learning (Christopher-Gordon), Becoming Critical Researchers: Literacy and Empowerment for Urban Youth (Peter Lang), Critical Literacy and Urban Youth: Pedagogies of Access, Dissent, and Liberation (Routledge) and The Art of Critical Pedagogy: Possibilities for Moving from Theory to Practice in Urban Schools (co-authored with Jeffrey M.R. Duncan-Andrade). Morrell received his Ph.D. in Language, Literacy, and Culture from UC Berkeley.