DEI Research and Outreach

 Ongoing Faculty Projects:

  • HDFS 3333 decorative imageDr. Laura Herold and Diana Gonzales Worthen in the College of Education and Health Professions were awarded a U.S. Department of Education grant from the Office of English Language Acquisition for a total of $2,955,256 over five years. They are co-PI on Project ELEVATE, which stands for Ensuring Learner Equity Via Advocacy & Teacher Education. It is an innovative, interdisciplinary project aimed at increasing teacher diversity and providing professional development opportunities for educators working with dual language and emergent bilingual students in PK-12 schools.

    Project ELEVATE has three components:
    1. A "Classic Professional Development" program for PK-12 teachers serving dual language and emergent bilingual students who want to earn an ESL endorsement or TESL Graduate Certificate.
    2. A "Grow Your Own" program for bilingual/bicultural paraprofessionals who wish to become teachers. Participating paraprofessionals can earn an undergraduate degree with a teaching license and ESL Endorsement in either Elementary Education or Birth-Kindergarten.
    3. There are also funds to enrich students' biliterate and academic development that will establish bilingual playgroups during the school year, a bilingual reading summer program and service-learning opportunities for teachers participating in the ELEVATE project.
  • Dr. Jacquelyn Wiersma-Mosley is using a grant from the Wally Cordes Teaching and Faculty Support Center to raise diversity awareness and cultural appreciation, conducting ultural competence development research and trainings and offering IDI trainings.

Student Research

Service-Learning Courses Available

Service-learning provides an excellent high impact experience for introducing students to people of different cultural backgrounds, helping students become aware of the issues these people and communities face related to culture.

Code

Number

Name

Instructor

Contact

HDFS

2493

Introduction to Cultural Competence

Jackie Mosley

jwiersma@uark.edu 

HDFS

3333

Language and Literacy Pedagogy

Laura Herold

lkherold@uark.edu 

HDFS

3453

Parenting and Family Dynamics

Donia Timby

dtimby@uark.edu

HDFS

4473

Multicultural Families

Jackie Mosley

jwiersma@uark.edu 

HDFS

2413H

Family Relations

Amanda Williams

alw077@uark.edu

HDFS

3443H

Honors Families in Crisis

Shari Moxley

moxley@uark.edu

HESC

599V

Festival Management 

Yao-Chin Wang

ycwang@uark.edu 

HOSP

4613

Festival Management 

Yao-Chin Wang

ycwang@uark.edu 

HOSP

4643

Special Events Management (Meetings, Events, and Conventions)

Cora Hamm

corahamm@uark.edu 

HOSP

5643

Meetings, Events, and Conventions

Cora Hamm

corahamm@uark.edu 

HOSP

3601L

Menu, Layout, and Food Prep. Lab

Lobat Siahmakoun

lsiahmak@uark.edu 

HOSP

3602L

Menu, Layout, and Food Prep. Lab

Lobat Siahmakoun

lsiahmak@uark.edu 

NUTR

3103

Culinary Nutrition

Nancy Buckley

nhb@uark.edu

NUTR

3213

Nutrition Education and Counseling

Sabrina trudo

trudo@uark.edu