{"id":115967,"date":"2016-08-24T11:19:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T15:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&#038;p=115967"},"modified":"2016-08-24T11:20:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T15:20:36","slug":"memoriam-associate-professor-robert-colbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2016\/08\/memoriam-associate-professor-robert-colbert\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Associate Professor Robert Colbert"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_115968\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-115968\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/school-stories\/memoriam-associate-professor-robert-colbert\/dsc_9061-colbert-small\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-115968\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115968 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DSC_9061-Colbert-Small.jpg\" alt=\"Associate Professor Robert Colbert\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DSC_9061-Colbert-Small.jpg 550w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DSC_9061-Colbert-Small-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DSC_9061-Colbert-Small-150x100.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 550px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 550\/367;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-115968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Colbert, associate professor in the Neag School, passed away on Aug. 12, 2016.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Robert Colbert, associate professor in the Neag School of Education,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.legacy.com\/obituaries\/gazettenet\/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&amp;pid=181142247\">passed away on Friday, Aug. 12, 2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Colbert arrived as a faculty member at the Neag School in 2001, coming to UConn from University of Massachusetts \u2014 Amherst. He received tenure and appointment to associate professor in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>For the past three years, Colbert has served as program coordinator of the counseling program within the Neag School\u2019s Department of Educational Psychology. His research expertise and interests\u00a0focused on addressing disparities in public schools based on race and included the study of microaggressions, discipline sanctions, school counselors\u2019 role in facilitating positive student racial identity development, and college and career readiness in urban schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUConn students, fellow faculty, and schoolchildren around the region have benefited from Dr. Robert Colbert\u2019s longtime commitment to alleviating disparities in public schools and to enhancing the role that school counselors can play as change agents in schools,\u201d says Del Siegle, department head and professor of educational psychology at the Neag School.<\/p>\n<p>Colbert earned his bachelor of science degree in elementary education and master of arts degree in school counseling from the University of Kansas; and a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the University of Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legacy.com\/obituaries\/gazettenet\/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&amp;pid=181142247\">Read Robert Colbert\u2019s obituary<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Colbert, associate professor in the Neag School of Education, passed away on Friday, Aug. 12, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":115968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1855],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1878],"class_list":["post-115967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-neag"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-03 14:03:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/115968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115967"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=115967"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=115967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}