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June 2015
Volume 43, Issue 2
The Mid-South
Educational Research Association
LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA
2015 ANNUAL MEETING
SUBMISSION DEADLINE
JULY 15, 2015
MSERA 2015: Investigating Today to Improve Education Tomorrow
2015
ANNUAL MEETING
November 4-6
Lafayette, Louisiana
Submission and
Annual Meeting
Information at
www.msera.org
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Program Chair’s Message 2
Submission Information 2
President’s Message 3
Officers and Directors 3
2014 Award Recipients 4
2014 Meeting Highlights 5
2015 Conference Hotel 6
Call for Nominations 7
Editors’ Column 8
The Mid-South
Educational
RESEARCHER
Julie A. Holmes
Randy Parker
Editors
The
Researcher
Discussion
Sessions
Display
Sessions
Symposia
Training
Sessions
Research In
Progress (RIP)
SUBMISSION DEADLINE
WEDNESDAY
Greetings from the 2015
MSERA Program Chair!
I hope each of you is enjoy-
ing a wonderful summer! What bet-
ter time to get your 2015 MSERA
proposal submitted! The July 15,
2015 deadline for submitting your
proposals for the 2015 MSERA
meeting in Lafayette, Louisiana is
quickly approaching, but there is
still time to get those proposals
submitted. This year’s program is
already shaping up into a one-of-a-
kind event with a wide variety of
topics and themes that are all une-
quivocally important and timely in
the field of education. You won’t
want to miss being a part of it!
Please pass along this annual meet-
ing information to your colleagues
and graduate students. The annual
MSERA meeting will be November
4-6, 2015 at the Doubletree by Hil-
ton Hotel Lafayette. All members of
MSERA and others are invited to
submit proposals for (a) Discussion
sessions, (b) Display sessions, (c)
Symposia, (d) Training sessions,
and/or (e) Research in Progress
(RIP) sessions. Proposals will be
considered if they are submitted
electronically by Wednesday, July
15, 2015 at http://www.msera.org/
annual-meeting-cfp.html. Pro-
posals should be submitted in the
form of an abstract. All submissions
for the James E. McLean Outstand-
ing Distinguished Paper Award and
the Hebert M. Handley Outstand-
ing Dissertation/Thesis Award
must follow special instructions at
http://www.msera.org/awards-
papers.html.
Primary authors will be
notified, via email, both an
acknowledgement of receipt of the
proposal and a final disposition of
the proposal by September 15,
2015. Therefore, it is important that
primary authors are able to access
email from July 15, 2015 through
September 15, 2015. Submit one
completed Proposal Information
web page form for each paper/
display/other session being pro-
posed. The web page form requires
authors to submit cover sheet infor-
mation and the abstract of the pa-
per/display/other session. Authors
submitting a training proposal
must send an abbreviated vita for
each trainer to the Program Chair
as an email attachment.
If you have questions about
submitting your proposals, please
contact me, Dr. Rebecca Robichaux
-Davis, at [email protected].
Many of you have already contacted
me, and I thank you for your inter-
est and excitement with regards to
attending and presenting at the
2015 MSERA Meeting. Thanks, al-
so, to all of you who have already
submitted your proposals. I’m
thrilled to be given the opportunity
to be able to put together such a
fine program based on the submis-
sions that I’ve already seen! Look-
ing forward to seeing you in Lafa-
yette in November! Laissez les bon
temps rouler!
Rebecca R. Robichaux-Davis
2015 MSERA Program Chair
SUBMIT PROPOSALS
ONLINE AT
WWW.MSERA.ORG
2
2015 INCOMING PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Hello! I hope you are having a wonderful summer and planning
to submit proposals for our upcoming conference. Lafayette is a won-
derful place to visit and, at our spring Board Meeting, we considered it
part of our sworn duty to sample the local food and culture. The hotel
has great meeting space, hospitality, and delicious food. Our hosts
(formally known as the local arrangements committee) Dustin Herbert
and Michelle Haj-Broussard are making wonderful plans for your en-
joyment. Meanwhile, Rebecca Robichaux is planning for your profes-
sional development as she arranges our 2015 Meeting Program. Be-
cause one of the great aspects of MSERA is forming professional friend-
ships, we are planning two new sessions to allow time for connections.
The first session will be networking round tables. When you arrive at
the conference, you will be asked if you wish to attend the networking
session and, if so, to indicate three areas of research that interest you.
We will then match responses and form groups for that session. Lead-
ing into the Business Meeting, we will also hold committee meetings. If
you are interested in serving on a committee or simply finding out more
about a committee, please plan to attend the committee meeting during
this time. If you wish to serve on multiple committees, simply rotate
among the meeting rooms at your discretion.
Our Past President, Kathy Campbell, has arranged a very timely
panel for our keynote lunch. In light of the monumental cuts in higher
education, and the overall privatization movement in K-12 education,
the panel will discuss challenges, dilemmas, and solutions. The panel
includes Faculty Senate Presidents from six Louisiana Universities: Dr.
J Kirylo, Southeastern Louisiana University; Dr. K Cope, Louisiana
State University; Dr. V. Menon, McNeese State University; Dr. S. Hes-
ter, Southern University at Shreveport; Dr. L. Deaton, University of
Louisiana at Lafayette; and Dr. B. Salvador, Louisiana State University
– Shreveport. When you make your hotel reservations, even if you are
using hotel points instead of
the great MSERA rate, be sure
to tell them that you are with
our organization to ensure
that we get the low rates on
meeting rooms. I look forward
to seeing you in November.
Gail Hughes
MSERA
President
MSERA 2015
OFFICERS &
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President Gail Hughes
President-Elect Dustin
Hebert
Secretary Shannon
Chiasson
Past-President Kathy
Campbell
Executive Director Cliff Hofwolt
Historian Jane Nell
Luster
Alabama Director Nancy
Gaillard
Arkansas Director Rachelle
Miller
Florida Director Franz
Reneau
Kentucky Director Yuejin Xu
Louisiana Director Susannah
Craig
Mississippi Director Rebecca
Robichaux-Davis
Tennessee Director Jwa Kim
At-Large Director Mindy
Crain-Dorough
At-Large Director Carol
Christian
At-Large Director Larry Daniel
3
2014 MSERA AWARD RECIPIENTS2014 MSERA AWARD RECIPIENTS2014 MSERA AWARD RECIPIENTS
4
Randy Parker Jane Nell Luster
2014 Harry Bowman 2014 Walter Mathews
Service Award Recipient Historical Contribution
Award Recipient
Tony Onwuegbuzie
2014 James McLean Outstanding Research
Paper Award Recipient
2014 Research In Progress (RIP) Graduate Student Award Recipients
5
MSERA 2014—KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE HIGHLIGHTS
6
Past Presidents at the 2014 Past Presidents’ Breakfast
2014 Annual Meeting—Knoxville, Tennessee
Our 2015 Annual meeting will be held at the
Doubletree by Hilton
Lafayette
(Formerly the Hilton-Lafayette)
This completely remodeled property is Acadiana’s premier conference
venue and will provide you with an exceptional conference experience.
Please plan to reserve your room at the Doubletree.
MSERA can afford to keep our conference fees low when we
have members reserve rooms at the conference hotel.
Plan to join us in Lafayette for our 44th Annual Meeting !!!
Allons à Lafayette, mes amis!!
2015 Annual Meeting
Hotel Information
7
Call for Nominations
2016 Board of Directors and Officers
The Nominations Committee seeks nominations for the following leadership positions on the MSERA Board of Directors: Vice President/President Elect 4 At-Large Directors Graduate Student Representative The Vice President/President Elect serves as Vice President for 2016 and as President for 2017. At-Large Directors serve on the MSERA Board for two years (2016 and 2017). Graduate Student Representative is a one year term. Nominations may be made by any active member of MSERA. Nominees need to submit a letter of acceptance to the Nominations Committee. Four active members must endorse any nominee. Send nominations via email by July 15, 2015 to: Kathy Campbell, MSERA Nominations Committee Chair [email protected]
2015 Call for Outstanding Awards2015 Call for Outstanding Awards
MSERA members are encouraged to apply for the James E. McLean Outstanding Re-
search Paper Award or the Herbert M. Handley Outstanding Dissertation/Thesis Award.
The award application process is a two-step process. First, submit the abstract through
the on-line submission process outlined in the Call for Papers. Next, submit an electron-
ic copy (pdf or Word) of the paper or dissertation/thesis summary and a separate elec-
tronic cover sheet to the Awards Chair, Dustin Hebert ([email protected]) by July
15, 2015. Submissions may not exceed 25 double-spaced, typewritten pages, including
narrative, tables, and references. To be eligible for the Dissertation/Thesis Award the dis-
sertation or thesis must have been completed during or after the summer of 2014. The
Outstanding Paper Award recipient receives a plaque and $500 travel stipend upon
presentation of the paper at the next AERA meeting (2016). The Outstanding Disserta-
tion/Thesis Award recipient receives a plaque and $250.
FUTURE CONFERENCE
DATES
NOVEMEBER 2016
RENAISSANCE RIVERVIEW
PLAZA
MOBILE, ALABAMA
NOVEMBER 2017
THE MILL AT MSU
STARKVILLE, MS
GOT AN IDEA FOR A FUTURE MSERA MEETING SITE?
CONTACT: GAHAN BAILEY
GBAILEY @SOUTHALABAMA.EDU
OR KATHY CAMPBELL
Editors’ Colum Editors’ Colum Editors’ Colum
We hope that each of you are having a safe and
productive summer and that the material in this edition of
the Researcher provides you with the information you
need to complete and submit your proposal for our 44th
Annual Meeting this November in Lafayette. Please share
this information with your colleagues and help insure a
successful and meaningful Annual Meeting.
We are also grateful for the continued support pro-
vided by Louisiana Tech University through the Depart-
ment of Curriculum, Instruction, and Leadership and the
College of Education for the production of the Researcher in
2015. We welcome suggestions and comments from the
membership on both content and format as we move for-
ward with future issues of the Researcher – please feel free
to contact us at anytime.
Julie A Holmes Randy Parker
[email protected] [email protected]
The Mid-South
Educational
RESEARCHER
Published at
Louisiana Tech University
for the
Mid-South Educational
Research Association
Department of
Curriculum, Instruction,
and Leadership
P.O. Box 3161, Louisiana
Tech University
Ruston, LA 71272
Julie A. Holmes
Randy Parker
Editors
Photo Credits:
Hilton Hotels
Lafayette CVB
Louisiana Tech University
Randy Parker