{"id":201679,"date":"2017-08-31T11:05:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T15:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=201679"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:17:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:17:58","slug":"special-education-program-receives-1-3m-leadership-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2017\/08\/special-education-program-receives-1-3m-leadership-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Education Program Receives $1.3M Leadership Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Education has awarded $1.3 million in funding through its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/about\/offices\/list\/osers\/osep\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Office of Special Education Programs<\/a>\u00a0(OSEP) to the Neag School\u2019s special education program for a project that will fully fund five doctoral students in the areas of literacy, positive behavioral supports, and transition, with four-year competitive fellowships for each student.<\/p>\n<p>The project, titled Project NeXus II, seeks to \u201cserve as a means of connection between the most promising future scholars and the field of special education,\u201d says\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/education.uconn.edu\/person\/michael-coyne\/\">Michael Coyne<\/a>, a co-principal investigator, along with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/education.uconn.edu\/person\/allison-lombardi\/\">Allison Lombardi<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/education.uconn.edu\/person\/brandi-simonsen\/\">Brandi Simonsen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As the nation faces an ongoing shortage of doctoral-level special education graduates, the research team intends to help address this critical shortage. The purpose of Project NeXus II, Coyne says, is \u201cto prepare at least five doctoral-level personnel who have the conceptual, research, and practical competence to formulate and answer essential educational questions, and lead others in the generation and examination of new questions.\u201d It is a continuation of Project NeXus, which similarly funded doctoral students in special education who have since gone on to leadership and faculty positions in the field, according to Coyne.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cGiven the Neag School\u2019s pre-eminence in educational training and research, I\u2019m sure the Ph.D. candidates funded through this program will \u2018pay it forward\u2019 in their work with special education students and educators.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Radenka Maric, vice president for research, UConn<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funding will be provided for five doctoral students over the next five years, with applications being accepted as early as Dec. 1. The Project NeXus II training plan will be organized into three components, including coursework, applied experiences, and leadership competencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a great recognition of the outstanding work of our special education faculty working together to prepare the next generation of professionals,\u201d says Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Scott Brown, head of the Neag School\u2019s Department of Educational Psychology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContinuing the wonderful work done through Project NeXus, the current program will prepare educational leaders to better support the growth and development of students,\u201d adds Radenka Maric, UConn\u2019s vice president for research. \u201cGiven the Neag School\u2019s pre-eminence in educational training and research, I\u2019m sure the Ph.D. candidates funded through this program will \u2018pay it forward\u2019 in their work with special education students and educators.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Access\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0Byx9oFviMFiieUk5LUZGVnN6YTQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the project abstract<\/a>\u00a0for more information. To learn more, contact Michael Coyne at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"mailto:mike.coyne@uconn.edu\"><em>mike.coyne@uconn.edu<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Education has awarded $1.3 million in funding through its Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) to the Neag School\u2019s special education program for a project that will fully fund five doctoral students in the areas of literacy, positive behavioral supports, and transition, with four-year competitive fellowships for each student.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":201680,"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":[2428,1855],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1878],"class_list":["post-201679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-educational-psychology","category-neag"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 13:54:02","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\/201679","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=201679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201681,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201679\/revisions\/201681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/201680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201679"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=201679"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=201679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}