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Student Selected to Attend Prestigious Graduate Seminar

by Nash McCutchen

Roxanne Hughes, a doctoral student in the Program in Educational Policy within the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, was one of 40 graduate students across the country to be selected to attend this year’s David L. Clark National Graduate Research Seminar in Educational Administration & Policy. The seminar −- which is sponsored by the University Council for Educational Administration, divisions of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and Corwin Press −- was held prior to AERA’s 2008 conference in April.

The Clark Seminar brings together some of the nation’s top doctoral students in the areas of educational leadership, administration and/or policy to participate in two days of presentations, generative discussions and professional growth. Students are nominated by their department chairs and/or college deans and must submit detailed research proposals to be ranked by blind review. Only the 40 highest-ranking nominees are offered invitations to attend the seminar.

Gary Crow, department chair of educational leadership and policy studies, said, “The David Clark National Seminar for Graduate Students in Educational Leadership is the longest running AERA graduate student seminar. It provides an excellent way for these doctoral students to meet leading scholars in the field and for them to network with other students who will be their academic career cohorts. Ms. Hughes is an exceptional scholar who will well represent our department.”

“I am truly honored to be representing Florida State University at the Clark Seminar in March,” said Roxanne Hughes. “I will be able to meet with leading researchers and graduate students in the areas related to [both] my research and methodological interests. I feel that these interactions, the advice I receive and the information I glean from those at the seminar will be truly beneficial in my present and future research.”