(L-R): Theresa Southam, Emily Sinclair, President Katrina Rogers, Iya K. Ritchie, and Ashley Roth Fielding students exhibited their research posters during Summer Session in Chicago recently -- and a winner and honorable mention recipients have been announced. Congratulations to: Winner Iya M. Ritchie, Clinical Psychology Research Topic: “Lifestyle Choices and Social Resources Are Mediating Effects on the Physical and Mental Health of Immigrants” Honorable Mention: 1.) Sonia Rodrigues-Marto and Emily Sinclair, Clinical Psychology Research Topic: “Does English Fluency Impact Parental Involvement with their Child’s Homework?”   2.) Ashley Roth (Co-Authors: Keisha Cameron & Jacob Hanks), Clinical Psychology Research Topic: “A Replication Study of [...]

Faculty lead an inspiring field trip at Summer Session By David Blake Willis, PhD Chicago as an urban landscape has long inspired hope. In many ways it was the first modern city, with the invention of the skyscraper, urban transportation networks, and the dominant role of commodities trading having an outsize impact on the world. Under the El, Western Station on the Brown Line, Chicago Chicago has also been the site of massive ecological dislocations such as the shifting of the course of the Chicago River, the Great Chicago Fire, and perhaps the greatest concentration of railroads of any [...]

Fielding Renews Collaboration with University of Guadalajara In 2010, Fielding Graduate University began collaborating with the University of Guadalajara to help promote a love of reading among the children and residents of Mexico’s Jalisco region. The University of Guadalajara Working together, they created and grew the Letras para Volar (Letters to Fly) program, which has now taught over 380,000 children to read through workshop and teaching experiences — and reaches 46,000 students every week in Mexico’s schools.  The program was founded to promote a love for: Science and math Ecological sustainability and environmental care Ancient traditions and colorful art Social [...]

‘Dr. Dang’ Chonwerawong brings passion for helping marginalized students Creating community. Connecting people. Collaborating. Helping students with problem solving, thinking through what they want to study, and answering their big questions. Using data to determine best practices for improving students’ experience. These are all areas that Fielding’s new Dean of Student Development excels at. And if you haven’t yet had the pleasure of meeting Ruttanatip Chonwerawong — or “Dr. Dang,” as everyone knows her — and taken advantage of her considerable skills and charismatic personality, it’s high time you do. New to Fielding this year, Dr. Dang comes from the University [...]

Nearly 20 Fielding staff members recently spent a couple of hours picking up trash on Montecito’s Butterfly Beach on Friday with Santa Barbara Channelkeeper. Butterfly Beach was hit hard by January’s devastating mud and debris flow, and our intrepid team suited up in their Fielding T-shirts to head down to the shore and do their part to keep oceanside trash from winding up in the Pacific. Over two hours, they collected 59 pounds of trash, including: 81 cigarette butts 17 plastic straws 68 pieces of micro plastic 61 pieces of foam Metal rebar Part of a wicker chair A piece of [...]