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The Institute for Educational Research and Public Service

Faculty Research and Service

The Institute supports School of Education faculty and staff as they seek to secure external funding.

 

 

Programs

An Innovative Mentoring Model for Underrepresented Students at the University of Kansas and Partnering Community Colleges in Kansas
FIPSE: model mentoring program

CAREER: Plant Evolution at Low CO2
Responses of Ice Age Trees

Collaborative Evaluation Communities in Urban Schools - CEC
Create school-based collaborative evaluation communities

Galvanizing Factors of Communities Chosen to be One of the Best 100 Communities for Music Education
Identify those galvanizing factors that discriminate communities maintaining and promoting high-quality music programs from those communities that do not.

Kansas Character Education Initiative
Facilitate survey administration and data collection components

Milestones & Danger Zones for Talented Women in STEM
Science, Technology Engineering and Math

Narrowing the Attainment Gap: The Growth of African American Secondary Education, 1940-1970
Research on the growith of black high school graduation

Predicting Latino Student's College Participation: State, School and Individual Effects
Factors that affect time to doctorate degree

Transition to Teaching: KU-KCKPS Partnership in Education
Recruitment of mid-career professionals to teach high-need subject areas for Kansas City, Kansas secondary schools.

The Institute exists to assist School of Education faculty in their pursuit of external funding and to serve the State of Kansas. Major programs areas are:
Educational Opportunity Programs
Faculty Research and Service
Professional Development
Public Service