Tennessee Temple University was a private Christian university in Chattanooga,Tennessee. Temple Baptist Seminary was the university's graduate school of Christian theology,also operating in Chattanooga. The university merged with Piedmont International University in 2015.
Open educational resources (OER) are teaching,learning,and research materials intentionally created and licensed to be free for the end user to own,share,and in most cases,modify. The term "OER" describes publicly accessible materials and resources for any user to use,re-mix,improve,and redistribute under some licenses. These are designed to reduce accessibility barriers by implementing best practices in teaching and to be adapted for local unique contexts.
Kathleen P. King is an American author and educator. As of 2006,she was a professor and director of Fordham University's Regional Educational Technology Center (RETC),Center for Professional Development and Program Director of the graduate program in Adult Education and Human Resource Development at the Graduate School of Education.
Wake Forest University School of Medicine is the medical school of Wake Forest University,with two campuses located in Winston-Salem,North Carolina and Charlotte,North Carolina,United States. It is affiliated with Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist,the academic medical center whose clinical arm is Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist. In 2021,U.S. News &World Report ranked Wake Forest School of Medicine 48th best for research in the nation and 80th best for primary care. The School of Medicine also ranks in the top third of U.S. medical schools in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Centennial Campus is a research park and educational campus owned and operated by North Carolina State University in Raleigh,North Carolina,United States. Composed of two locations,the 1,334 acres (5.4 km2) property provides office and lab space for corporate,governmental and not-for-profit entities,in addition to providing space for 75 university research centers,institutes,laboratories and departmental units. Currently,5,000,000 sq ft (460,000 m2) of constructed space has been built. Upon completion,Centennial Campus is anticipated to have 9,000,000 sq ft (840,000 m2) of constructed space.
A hackerspace is a community-operated,often "not for profit",workspace where people with common interests,such as computers,machining,technology,science,digital art,or electronic art,can meet,socialize,and collaborate. Hackerspaces are comparable to other community-operated spaces with similar aims and mechanisms such as Fab Lab,men's sheds,and commercial "for-profit" companies.
The Rowan-Salisbury School System is a PK–12 graded school district in North Carolina covering nearly all of Rowan County including the city of Salisbury. The second largest employer in the county,the system's 35 schools serve 20,000 students as of 2013–2014. Salisbury split off from the original county-wide system in 1921,but merged back into the county system in 1989.
Keith M Lewin is a British Professor of International education and Development at the University of Sussex and Director of the Consortium for Research on Educational Access,Transitions and Equity (CREATE). He is known for his work in educational planning,economics and finance of education,teacher education,assessment,science and technology education policy in developing countries,educational aid and program evaluation. He has been adviser to various governmental,multilateral and non-profit organisations on education planning and policy,including the World Bank,DFID,UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning,UNICEF,UNDP,AusAID and others. His country experience includes projects in Ghana,Rwanda,Uganda,Kenya,Tanzania,Malawi,South Africa,Zimbabwe,Mauritius,Trinidad and Tobago,Barbados,India,Sri Lanka,Bangladesh,Malaysia,and China.
Torrens University is an Australian international private,for-profit university and vocational registered training organisation,with campuses in Sydney,Melbourne,Brisbane,Adelaide,Blue Mountains,Australia,Auckland,New Zealand,and Suzhou,China. As of 2022 the university has about 21,000 enrolled students.
Barnett Berry is a research professor at the University of South Carolina,where he is the founding director of Accelerating for Learning and Leadership for South Carolina (ALL4SC) —an initiative launched in 2019,to marshal the resources of an entire R1 institution of higher education in service of high need school communities. Barnett's career includes serving as a high school teacher,a social scientist at the RAND Corporation,a professor at UofSC,a senior state education agency leader,and senior consultant with the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future,leading its state partnership network. From 1999 to 2018,Barnett led Center for Teaching Quality website,a non-profit he founded to conduct research and ignite teacher leadership to transform the teaching profession and public education for more equitable outcomes for students. Barnett has authored a wide array of over 120 policy and research reports,journal articles,and commissioned papers. His two books,TEACHING 2030 and Teacherpreneurs:Innovative Teachers Who Lead But Don't Leave,frame a bold vision for the profession's future. He is the 2021 recipient of the James A. Kelly Award for Advancing Accomplished Teaching from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and is a policy advisor for the Learning Policy Institute.
Graig R. Meyer is an American politician serving as a Democratic member of the North Carolina Senate. He has represented the 23rd district since 2023. He previously served as a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives,where he was elected to the 50th district seat 4 times. In 2022,Meyer announced his candidacy for District 23 of the North Carolina Senate,that district includes all of Caswell,Orange and Person counties,and was elected to that seat in November 2022.
Patricia A. Edwards,a member of the Reading Hall of Fame,is a Distinguished Professor of Language and Literacy in the Department of Teacher Education and a Senior University Outreach Fellow at Michigan State University. She is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in parent involvement,home-school-community partnerships,and multicultural,early,and family/intergenerational literacy with a focus on poor and minority children. She served on the International Literacy Association Board of Directors from 1998–2001,as the first African American President of the Literacy Research Association from 2006–2007,and as President of the International Literacy Association from 2010–2011. Edwards also served as a member of the Board of Directors for the American Educational Research Association's (AERA) Family,School,and Community Partnerships Special Interest Group (SIG) from 2014–2016 and was elected to serve as its President-Elect/President from 2016–2020.
Erica Nicole Walker is an American mathematician and the Clifford Brewster Upton Professor of Mathematics Education at Teachers College,Columbia University,where she also serves as the Chairperson of the Department of Mathematics,Science,and Technology and as the Director of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education. Walker’s research focuses on the "social and cultural factors as well as educational policies and practices that facilitate mathematics engagement,learning and performance,especially for underserved students".
Carol Fowler Durham is an American Clinical Professor of Nursing and Doctor of Education who is known as a leader in the fields of Healthcare Quality and Safety,nursing education,interprofessional education,and medical simulation.
Rosalind Ivanić is a Yugoslav-born British linguist. She is currently an honorary professor at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University,United Kingdom. Her research focuses on applied linguistics with a special focus on literacy,intertextuality,multimodal communication,adult literacy,educational linguistics,critical language awareness,punctuation,and second language writing. Along with Theo van Leeuwen and David Barton,she is considered one of the most prominent researchers on literacy.
Jeannette Louise Oakes is an American educational theorist and Presidential Professor Emerita in Educational Equity at UCLA's Graduate School of Education &Information Studies. She was the founder and former director of UCLA’s Institute for Democracy,Education and Access (IDEA),the former director of the University of California’s All Campus Consortium on Research for Diversity (ACCORD),as well as the founding director of Center X,which is UCLA’s reform-focused program for the preparation of teachers and school administrators.
Hollylynne Stohl Lee is an American mathematics educator and statistics educator who describes herself as an "educational designer" focusing on technology-based learning. She is a professor of mathematics education in the College of Education at North Carolina State University,where she directs the Hub for Innovation and Research in Statistics Education in the William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation.
Ruth Wright Chabay is an American physics educator known for her work in educational technology and as the coauthor of the calculus-based physics textbook Matter and Interactions. She is professor emerita of physics at North Carolina State University.
Marian Cecelia Johnson-Thompson is an American virologist who was a professor at the University of the District of Columbia. She was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Ricky Hurtado is an American politician and educator who previously served as a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives from the 63rd district. Elected in November 2020,he assumed office on January 1,2021.
