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UCLA Ed&IS In the News: How Reading — Not Scanning, Not Scrolling — Opens Your Mind | The literacy scholar Maryanne Wolf maps out the ways “deep reading” nourishes our capacity for attention, empathy and insight. Via The New York Times: nytimes.com/2022/11/22/opi… Ezra Klein

New UCLA CTS Research Highlights “Bright Spots” That Prioritize Black Youth Success in Los Angeles | Researchers from UCLA’s CTS today released a new report examining the benefits of providing targeted support for Black students. Via The Latest: seis.ucla.edu/news/new-ucla-…

Our ability to read hangs in the balance. UCLA Ed & IS literacy scholar Maryanne Wolf discusses how "deep reading" nourishes our capacity for attention, empathy and insight. nytimes.com/2022/11/22/opi…

SEIS, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine WeCREATE Initiative Provides Heart Screening to Student Athletes at Mann UCLA Community School | UCLA education professor Federica Raia’s research explores how people care for one another via The Latest: seis.ucla.edu/news/seis-ucla…

Literacies of Love: Trauma, Healing, and Pedagogical Shifts in an English Classroom | It is my own journey through grief and trauma and healing that brought me to this dissertation, to teaching, to love via The Latest: seis.ucla.edu/news/literacie…

First Generation College Persistence: University-Assisted Schools and Their Influence on College Degree Attainment | An in-depth look at the importance and long-term impacts of university-assisted schools on first-generation students via The Latest: seis.ucla.edu/news/first-gen…

The Walls Around Opportunity: The Failure of Colorblind Policy for Higher Education | An excerpt from the book and Q&A with author Professor Gary Orfield about his perspective on social and economic barriers to higher education. via The Latest: seis.ucla.edu/news/the-walls…

Honoring Martin Luther King—our nation’s revered social and racial justice leader. #MLKDay2023 Read: seis.ucla.edu/news/on-monday…

On Employee Appreciation Day, thank you to Ed&IS’s wonderful faculty and staff. Your commitment and service fill me with optimism and make a difference every day.

So much to celebrate at #AERA2023: Ed&IS student, faculty, and alumni research; the induction of AERA Fellows with UCLA roots; the start of Tyrone Howard’s presidency and Janelle Scott’s year as president-elect. Travel safe, see you in Chicago! #UCLAatAERA

UCLA's Education Professor Tyrone Howard is named President of AERA #UCLAatAERA #AERA23 #UCLA seis.ucla.edu/news/ucla-educ…

Governor Gavin Newsom proclaimed this week as #NationalLibraryWeek I would like to offer my thanks to those who are committed to ensuring that our libraries remain vital, inclusive spaces of growth & understanding. Your work is essential to this broader project of social justice.

Dr. Cole has a portfolio of scholarship that illuminates the critical role university & college leaders play in the furtherance of civil rights, racial justice & opportunity in higher ed. We celebrate Dr. Cole and his receipt of this prestigious new award. seis.ucla.edu/news/eddie-r.-…

Before Stonewall, there was The Black Cat and Cooper Donuts. Los Angeles has a long history of supporting and celebrating the LGBTQ+ community. Even as we continue the fight for justice, let’s celebrate equality, diversity, and solidarity. Happy Pride! 🌈

You made the choice to enroll in your Ed&IS degree program, you chose to be part of a larger project of change. You chose to help make this world a better place through your scholarship and your activism.

Our UCLA graduate students in both education and information studies are powerful agents for change.

You are armed with the understanding, compassion, responsiveness, and determination to make a difference. You can use these qualities to empower individuals with knowledge and reason, and ensure that free and open dialogue continue.

As you leave UCLA to change the world, I hope you will remember to talk across differences, incite creativity in your students and colleagues, and treat one another with dignity. I know that you will continue grow and hope and try.

Juneteenth is a celebration of freedom and Black excellence—and an opportunity to reflect where we are on the path to justice. I wish all a meaningful holiday, whether your celebration includes reflection & learning, public service, music, dance, & fireworks, or all of the above!

Today's @SCOTUS Supreme Court ruling on #AffirmativeAction and what it means: