UCLA School of Education & Information Studies

Spring Quarter Ends
2024-06-13 - 2024-06-14

2023 - 2024 Commencement
2024-06-15 07:00 - 09:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Los Angeles Tennis Center, 420 Charles E Young Drive West, Los Angeles, 90095, United States

Juneteeth
2024-06-18 - 2024-06-19

UCLA Pritzker Center Child Welfare Summer Seminar Series - Housing
2024-07-29 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom
This summer, the UCLA Pritzker Center is hosting a Child Welfare Summer Seminar Series open to all UCLA faculty, staff, and students! Join us for our free summer seminars to learn more about child welfare and related topics alongside other Bruins and get to know the UCLA Pritzker Center!

July 29, 1-2pm PT

Housing: Brenda A. Tully, PhDExplore issues concerning housing for families and youth involved with the child welfare system.

Other Series

August 5, 1-2pm PTPolicy and Practice: Taylor Dudley, JDDevelop an understanding of policy making and laws relevant to the child welfare system.

August 9, 9-10am PT

Education: Tyrone Howard, PhDDeepen knowledge of the interrelated connections between schools and the child welfare system.

August 16, 9-10am PT

Mental Health: Audra Langley, PhDEnhance your insight concerning mental health, trauma and resilience among child welfare involved youth and families.

UCLA Pritzker Center Child Welfare Summer Seminar Series - Policy and Practice
2024-08-05 01:30 - 14:00 | Zoom
This summer, the UCLA Pritzker Center is hosting a Child Welfare Summer Seminar Series open to all UCLA faculty, staff, and students! Join us for our free summer seminars to learn more about child welfare and related topics alongside other Bruins and get to know the UCLA Pritzker Center!

August 5, 1-2pm PTPolicy and Practice: Taylor Dudley, JDDevelop an understanding of policy making and laws relevant to the child welfare system.

Other Series

August 9, 9-10am PT

Education: Tyrone Howard, PhDDeepen knowledge of the interrelated connections between schools and the child welfare system.

August 16, 9-10am PT

Mental Health: Audra Langley, PhDEnhance your insight concerning mental health, trauma and resilience among child welfare involved youth and families.

UCLA Pritzker Center Child Welfare Summer Seminar Series - Education
2024-08-09 09:00 - 10:00 | Zoom
This summer, the UCLA Pritzker Center is hosting a Child Welfare Summer Seminar Series open to all UCLA faculty, staff, and students! Join us for our free summer seminars to learn more about child welfare and related topics alongside other Bruins and get to know the UCLA Pritzker Center!

August 9, 9-10am PT

Education: Tyrone Howard, PhDDeepen knowledge of the interrelated connections between schools and the child welfare system.

Other Series

August 16, 9-10am PT

Mental Health: Audra Langley, PhDEnhance your insight concerning mental health, trauma and resilience among child welfare involved youth and families.

UCLA Pritzker Center Child Welfare Summer Seminar Series- Mental Health
2024-08-16 09:00 - 10:00 | Zoom
Curious about child welfare and related topics? Join us for our free summer seminars to learn more alongside other Bruins and get to know the UCLA Pritzker Center.

August 16, 9-10am PT

Mental Health: Audra Langley, PhDEnhance your insight concerning mental health, trauma and resilience among child welfare involved youth and families.

Eyes on Reading: Maryanne Wolf with Emily Hanford
2024-09-18 17:15 - 19:00 | Friedman Family Auditorium, 925 13th Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, 20005, United States
For better or worse, digital reading is transforming the human brain. Join Maryanne Wolf, the best-selling author of Reader, Come Home, and Planet Word’s Journalist-in-Residence Emily Hanford as Wolf presents Beauty, Threat, and Choice: The Deep Reading Brain in a Digital Culture. Wolf’s thought-provoking talk provides a description of the deep reading brain’s development as the foundation for a moderated discussion demonstrating the impact of digital/screen reading on the perception of beauty, the development of empathy, and the extraordinary importance of critical thinking and reflection in a digital age. Following the talk, Hanford will guide the audience through a Q&A.

5:15 p.m. — Light refreshments6:00 p.m. — Presentation begins7:00 p.m. — Q+A with Maryanne Wolf and Emily Hanford

This program is part of the Journalist in Residence Program, presenting events in the Eyes on Reading series, open to all and designed for those educators, policymakers, advocates, and parents who are immersed in the literacy landscape. This program is presented with support from the Ibis Group.

For questions or concerns regarding accessibility needs, please contact programs@planetwordmuseum.org.

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UCLA STEM+C3 Conference: Learning, Reflection, & Celebration
2024-09-20 08:30 - 17:00
Description:

Let’s Celebrate the Learning! RSVP

Date: September 20, 2024

Time: 8:30a – 5:00p

Location: UCLA Luskin Center (425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095)

We will send parking information and additional details closer to the conference.

We are exploring ways to attain substitute teachers.

Hosted by LAUSD, UCLA Center X, UCLA Teacher Education Program and CVUHSD

Fall Quarter Begins
2024-09-23 00:00 - 23:59

Outdoor Yoga
2024-09-24 11:00 - 12:00 | UCLA Moore Hall Grass
Relax and unwind with gentle, full-body stretches designed to help you de-stress and recharge. This session is open to all students and aims to raise mental health awareness while welcoming new and returning students.

Don’t forget to bring your yoga mat!

Ed&IS Convocation 2024
2024-09-25 10:00 - 12:00 | UCLA Moore Hall 100
9:00 AM Pastries and Coffee on East Side of Moore Hall

10:00 WELCOME from Wasserman Dean Christina Christie

INTRODUCTIONS:

Eddie Cole, Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Annamarie Francois, Associate Dean for Public Engagement

Georgia Lazo (optional), Associate Dean for University Partnership Schools at UCLA

John Rogers, Associate Dean for Research/Public Scholarship

Tonia Sutherland, Associate Dean for Faculty Development

Remarks from Cecilia Rios-Aguilar, Chair, Department of Education

Remarks from Todd Franke, Chair, Department of Education

NEW FACULTY PANEL

Julissa Muñiz, Education

Lori Patton Davis, Education

Jordan Rickles, Education

Cinthya Salazar, Education

Melissa Villa-Nicholas, Information Studies

Jin Wang, Education

ORIENTATION ANNOUNCEMENTS & INTRODUCTIONS

Amy Gershon, Director of Student Services

IS Student Governing Board

GSAE

USAB

Interactions

12:00 Lunch (Boxed Lunches on East Side of Moore)

1:00 Orientation to each program

Fall Quarter Instruction Begins
2024-09-26 00:00 - 23:59

International Students Reception
2024-09-30 15:00 - 18:00 | UCLA Moore Hall, Room 3320
For all international students, faculty and staff and everyone interested international research.

Come share your international experiences and learn about international research in education in our school.

Book Launch of University-Community Partnerships for Transformative Education "Sowing Seeds of Resistance and Renewal"
2024-10-01 15:00 - 17:00 | UCLA Moore Hall, Room 3320
This open access edited volume reports on a unique network of innovative in-school and out-of-school programs, University-Community Links. UC Links connects university faculty and students with young people and their families in diverse communities around the world.

Come learn about community engaged work throughout the UC and CSU system and around the world!

Click here to download a free digital copy or purchase a physical copy of the book.

Early-Career Scholar Series
2024-10-04 10:00 - 11:00 | UCLA Moore Hall, Room 3320
The UCLA Department of Education Early-Career Scholar Series invites Department faculty, staff, and students to come together to engage with early-career scholars and their research, and build community over a Department lunch at noon following the session. At each session, an early-career scholar will either present their research or workshop a paper or study in progress facilitated by an advanced-career scholar.

This monthly event strives to foster community and connection within our Department, come together to learn more about our early-career scholars, and support their work. Coffee and refreshments will be served.

GSAE Coffee & Donut Drop-In
2024-10-09 10:00 - 12:00 | Moore Hall Student Lounge
Happy Fall Quarter! For New Bruins, welcome to UCLA. It was great seeing some of you yesterday, and we hope everyone had a restorative summer!

We’d like to introduce ourselves for the school year. The three of us (Belle, Flora, and Ingrid) will be serving as the co-chairs of the Graduate Student Association of Education (GSAE), a subdivision of the larger Graduate Student Association (GSA). GSAE is made up of student representatives from each of your divisions, which you can find the information for here! If you are seeing open spaces on this contact sheet for your program, we highly encourage you to sign up to become a student representative (responsibilities here)! GSAE as a whole holds social events for the department, works with your respective student representatives, and advocates for student voices by working with our faculty and administration.

Our first event will be on Wednesday, October 9th. Please drop in for some coffee & donuts to meet and chat with us! The flyer is below – we hope to see you there!

Undergraduate Intro to Mental Health & Resilience Resources
2024-10-09 16:00 - 18:00 | Rise Center at Lu Valle Commons
Are you a new incoming student or a returning student? Not sure how to manage stress? 🧠

Join us for an enlightening workshop in collaboration with the UCLA RISE Center, designed to provide an overview of all the mental health resources available on campus. This session will equip you with essential tools and strategies for managing your mental health effectively. Whether you’re navigating academic pressures, personal challenges, or simply seeking to enhance your well-being, this workshop will offer valuable insights and practical guidance. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with fellow students and take proactive steps towards a healthier, more balanced life. Everyone is welcome! 🪷

Join Us To Discuss Reform in Child Welfare for Families Experiencing Domestic Violence in the Antelope Valley
2024-10-15 09:30 - 11:30 | Lancaster Library, 601 W Lancaster Blvd, Lancaster, California, 93534, United States
On behalf of the UCLA Pritzker Center, we are pleased to announce the forthcoming release of a new report: Collaborative Reform in Child Welfare for Families Experiencing Domestic Violence.

To hear more about the report and additional efforts to make actionable reform, please join us for a special presentation with Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger, DCFS Director Brandon Nichols, and other distinguished guests.

Undergraduate Pumpkin Pick-N-Paint
2024-10-16 15:30 - 18:30 | UCLA Moore Hall Reading Room, 457 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Join us for pumpkin decorating to celebrate the return of spooky season! We’ll provide the pumpkin, paint, and decorations. Just bring your creativity!

RSVP today to reserve your very own cute mini pumpkin! 🎃

Information Studies Colloquia: The Algorithm is a Lie: revisiting blackboxing, transparency and user engagement with AI with Noopur Raval
2024-10-17 14:00 - 16:00
Professor Noopur Raval | October 17 | The Algorithm is a Lie: revisiting blackboxing, transparency and user engagement with AI

Abstract | With the rise of complex computational systems and their real-world applications in all domains of life – work, hiring, socializing, criminal justice etc., we are often told that algorithmic systems are inherently complex, require high degrees of technical expertise, and thus, are unknowable to a degree. We are also often informed that harmful outcomes of algorithmic systems are caused by “bias” and if we control for bias in training data and design, we can make these systems better – or even less harmful and racist and sexist. In response, computational and legal scholars and activists have developed auditing tools to unpack “blackboxed” algorithmic systems and reveal how they function in the hope of producing better social and economic outcomes.

This talk draws on years of ethnographic work across projects and mobilizes case studies to demonstrate how the expertise and unknowability of algorithmic systems is a ruse and a distraction from fundamental questions of values and pedagogy in Computer Science and associated fields. These fundamental challenges are more than just bias or glitches that can be fixed technically. The talk will also argue that algorithmic systems can be investigated as socio-technical systems by non-expert users. In doing so, the talk invites scholars across LIS fields to develop experiential, participatory, archival and experimental methodologies that tackle algorithms as social objects.

Speaker Bio | Dr. Noopur Raval is an assistant professor in Information Studies at UCLA. She is a feminist interdisciplinary interpretivist researcher and educator with a deep interest in how people create and maintain a good life and how technology can support visions of good work and life across the world. She received her PhD in Informatics from UC Irvine and has held positions at UC Santa Cruz, AI Now Institute at NYU, Microsoft Research and Xerox Research in the past.

2024 California Library Association (CLA) Annual Conference
2024-10-18 16:30 - 18:30 | Craft by Smoke and Fire, Pasadena, CA, 30 W Green St, Pasadena, California, 91105, United States
The UCLA Department of Information Studies Reception at the 2024 California Library Association (CLA) Annual Conference in Pasadena, CA.

Don’t miss the opportunity to network with fellow faculty, staff, and students as well as program alumni!

Reception Details

Date: Friday, October 18th

Time: 4:30 – 6:30pm

Location: Craft by Smoke and Fire, Pasadena

Please click here to RSVP for the reception or via the QR code below!

For more information about the reception, contact Michelle Maye at maye@seis.ucla.edu.

Learning Café: A Community Engaged Scholarship Series with Michelle Caswell & Anna Robinson-Sweet
2024-10-22 12:00 - 13:00 | UCLA Moore Hall Reading Room, 457 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Join us for our monthly Learning Café series highlighting the community engaged work of our faculty and graduate students. Listen, learn and engage with the work of our school.

Featuring Michelle Caswell, Ph.D., PhD, Professor, Information Studies, Special Advisor to the EVCP on Community Engaged Scholarship & Anna Robinson-Sweet, Doctoral Candidate, Information Studies

“Virtual Belonging: Assessing the Affective Impact of Digital Records Creation in Community Archives” is a four-year participatory action research project led by two community archives, Texas After Violence Project (TAVP) and South Asian American Digital Archives (SAADA), in collaboration with researchers from the UCLA Community Archives Lab. This presentation will address how academic researchers can engage in equitable, mutually beneficial relationships with independent community archives. It will also report some of the project’s findings on the impact of online peer-to-peer oral history projects and the implications of these findings for archival practice.

Future Dates

Fall 2024

Jason Dario – November 5

Chris Jadallah – November 12

Nikki Barry – December 3

Winter 2025

Karen Hunter Quartz – February 11

Thuy Do Vang – Winter Quarter

Ananda Marin – Winter Quarter

Spring 2025

Cinthya Salazar – Spring Quarter

Melissa Villa-Nicolas – Spring Quarter

Julissa Muñiz – Spring Quarter

Information Studies Colloquia: User-Centered Knowledge Graph Design
2024-10-24 14:00 - 16:00
This is a virtual presentation. Sign up for the event on this Google Form.

User-Centered Knowledge Graph Design

This presentation outlines the research I conducted as a part of my PhD dissertation, in which I involved the group of students in an interdisciplinary PhD program to design a knowledge-graph based information system that will help them progress through their education program and obtain their degree. I will present the human-centered design approach that was conducted through three stages, using different methodological approaches and will involve the seminar attendees in a graph design hands-on exercise using Neo4J Arrows.app.

Presenter: Dr. Stanislava Gardašević

Stanislava (Stasha) Gardasevic obtained her PhD at the Communication and Information Sciences (CIS) interdisciplinary program, University of Hawai’i at Manoa (UHM). Her research is focused on creating and visualizing user-centered knowledge graphs for information discovery and exchange in academic settings. She holds an MLIS degree from Digital Library Learning program (joint degree from Norway, Estonia, and Italy) and specializes in metadata for digital resources and interoperability. Her bachelor’s degree is in LIS from the University of Belgrade, Serbia. Currently, she is engaged in a re-description and digtization project at Kawaiaho’o Church Archives (Hawai’i), and also works as a project manager for a congressional papers digitization project at Hamilton Library, UHM. She worked as teaching assistant/course instructor at the Library and Information Science (LIS) at UHM for five years. Prior to coming to Hawaii, as a digital librarian at National Library of Serbia, she was involved in designing and creating multiple cultural heritage databases and international projects.

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Book Talk and Signing with OiYan Poon Ph.D.
2024-10-30 18:15 - 20:00 | James West Alumni Center, Founders Conference Room
[RSVP Link Coming Soon]

UCLA is inviting Dr. OiYan Poon to speak about her new book, “Asian American is Not a Color: Conversations on Race, Affirmative Action, and Family.” The talk will take place Oct. 30, from 6:30 – 8 p.m. PDT at the James West Alumni Center.

Please RSVP via the link above, and indicate whether you plan to attend in-person or virtually on Zoom. The Zoom Registration Link will be provided after the RSVP form is completed.

Early-Career Scholar Series Presenter: Dr. Nicole Mancevice and Scholar Facilitator Dr. Marjorie Elaine
2024-11-01 10:00 - 11:00 | UCLA Moore Hall, Room 3320
The UCLA Department of Education Early-Career Scholar Series invites Department faculty, staff, and students to come together to engage with early-career scholars and their research, and build community over a Department lunch at noon following the session. At each session, an early-career scholar will either present their research or workshop a paper or study in progress facilitated by an advanced-career scholar.

This monthly event strives to foster community and connection within our Department, come together to learn more about our early-career scholars, and support their work. Coffee and refreshments will be served.

In this session, Dr. Mancevice will workshop a preliminary analysis of data from a yearlong study of young children’s pathways of becoming readers. The primary data source for the analysis was a series of photograph-based interviews conducted during three periods of the school year. Dr. Mancevice encourages comments and questions regarding the analysis as well as next steps for future research.

Dr. Mancevice is an Assistant Professor-in-Residence in the Social Research Methodology Division and Associate Director of CONNECT. Her research focuses on reading instruction, curriculum design, and teachers’ professional learning. She is especially interested in collaborative approaches to designing and conducting research with educators. Dr. Mancevice’s current work examines young children’s pathways of becoming readers from their perspectives.

With Different Eyes: A Conference for Teachers of Multilingual, Multicultural Students Across the Disciplines
2024-11-02 08:30 - 15:00
The UCLA Writing Project invites you to the 34th annual With Different Eyes Conference, November 2, 2024. We focus on access and equity for all students, with our multilingual and multicultural students center-stage, including newcomers, students approaching advanced literacy, and speakers of African American English and indigenous languages. We attend to a spectrum of social justice issues—connected to matters of race and gender, environment, media. Given we are the Writing Project, we love to demonstrate how writing empowers all students, up and down the grade levels and across content areas.

Our conference theme this year: The Power of Words, The Strength of Story. Many students don’t think they have any stories to tell. We know otherwise. How do we as teachers encourage students to speak and write their own, everyday stories? And help them realize the stunning impact their words carry?

November 2, 20248:30 AM – 3:00 PMat UCLA

SCHEDULE

8:30 – 9:40 Keynote Speaker Joseph Velasco, “The Power of Story: Helping Students Find Their Voice”9:50 – 11:05 First Session Workshops11:15 – 12:30 Second Session Workshops12:30 – 1:30 Lunch Break1:45 – 3:00 Third Session Workshops

Conference Fee: $185 per participant

Full-time Students: $40

Includes parking, continental breakfast and lunch

Ask your administrators to support your attendance! We accept purchase orders.

GSAE Halloween Candy Swap
2024-11-04 16:30 - 18:00 | UCLA Moore Hall Student Lounge 2nd Floor
Join GSAE on Monday 11/4 from 4:30-6pm on the 2nd floor lounge in Moore Hall!

Come meet others in the department, bring some candy and swap to try something new. We are also raffling off 3 additional “UCLA Education” t-shirts at the event! Be there for new friends, new candy, and perhaps even new merch!

Learning Café: A Community Engaged Scholarship Series with Jason Dorio
2024-11-05 12:00 - 13:00 | UCLA Moore Hall Reading Room, 457 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Join us for our monthly Learning Café series highlighting the community engaged work of our faculty and graduate students. Listen, learn and engage with the work of our school.

Featuring Jason Nunzio Dorio, PhD, Associate Director of Undergraduate Programs for Community Engagement, Ed&IS

Based on personal observations, student work, and feedback grounded in community-engaged praxis themes, Jason will reflect on his time as the current Associate Director of Undergraduate Programs for Community Engagement. He will showcase community engagement opportunities for students in the Education and Social Transformation undergraduate program, discuss promising practices and challenges of community engagement, and share ideas for future cultivation of community-engaged praxis.

Future Dates

Fall 2024

Nikki Barry – December 3

Winter 2025

Karen Hunter Quartz – February 11

Thuy Do Vang – Winter Quarter

Ananda Marin – Winter Quarter

Spring 2025

Cinthya Salazar – Spring Quarter

Melissa Villa-Nicolas – Spring Quarter

Julissa Muñiz – Spring Quarter

Chris Jadallah – Spring Quarter

Creating Inclusive Sociotechnical Systems: Classification, Inequality, and Expertise in Epilepsy Care
2024-11-05 14:00 - 15:00 | CSW | Streisand Center, 1500 Public Affairs Building
Inclusive Sociotechnical Systems: Classification, Inequality, and Expertise in Epilepsy Care

Come join us for an enlightening talk by Dr Megh Marathe on Inclusive Sociotechnical Systems: Classification, Inequality, and Expertise in Epilepsy Care event. This in-person event will be held at Room 1500, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

Description: This talk examines how classification amplifies or alleviates the exclusion of marginalized people in healthcare. Through the case of epilepsy, the talk shows how reductionist classifications lead to narrow definitions of wellbeing and reinstate gendered, racist, classist, and ableist hierarchies. These findings advance our understanding of how experts navigate classificatory decisions and of technology’s role in amplifying inequality and how to work towards a more just society.

The talk will be followed by a Q&A and a reception.
