MCE Students Receive Prestigious Awards
MCE Students Receive Prestigious Awards
LIS students Vivienne Houghton and Jacob Ratliff were awarded the coveted and prestigious "New Leaders" award by ASIS&T, the American Society for Information Science and Technology. The ASIST awards represent the greatest recognition and respect professionals may afford their colleagues. Selections of awards recipients were made after thoughtful and thorough consideration by appropriate committees or official bodies of the Society. Since 1937, the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) has been the society for information professionals leading the search for new and better theories, techniques, and technologies to improve access to information. To learn more about ASIST, please visit http://www.asis.org/index.html.
Higher Education doctoral student Shametrice Davis was selected by UCEA to be a Barbara L. Jackson Scholar. The University Council for Education Administration (UCEA) is creating a network of graduate students of color who are studying in UCEA members' educational leadership doctoral programs and who are planning to enter the professoriate. UCEA's Jackson Scholars Network connects future leaders by providing students of color with a system of support-- across all UCEA member institutions-- that spans from the completion of academic requirements to their entrance into professorial roles. To learn more about UCEA, please visit http://www.ucea.org/.
