2022-2023 Honors and Professional Association Awards
Kent Butler, professor of counselor education, won the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development’s Samuel H. Johnson Distinguished Service Award.
Viki Kelchner, associate professor of counselor education, won the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors’ Training and Mentorship Award and the Association for Child and Adolescent Counseling’s Counselor Educator Advocate Award. Additionally, she received the Samuel T. Gladding Inspiration and Motivation Award from the Association for Creativity in Counseling.
Ann Shillingford, associate professor of counselor education, was elected to be the 2024-2025 president of the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development. She also received the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision’s Professional Leadership Award.
Dalena Dillman Taylor won the Association for Child and Adolescent Counseling’s Researcher Advocate Award and the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision’s Locke-Paisley Outstanding Mentor Award.
Amanda Walden, associate lecturer of global health management and informatics, received the American Health Information Management Association’s Triumph Educator Award.
Su-I Hou, professor of global health management and informatics, received a Fulbright Specialist Award to travel to Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
The School of Teacher Education was one of only two of its kind to receive the Shirley S. Schwartz Urban Education Impact award at the Council for the Great City Schools’ annual conference.
Staci Zavattaro, professor of public administration, was named a Richard P. Nathan Public Policy Fellow by the State University of New York’s Rockefeller Institute of Government for the 2022-23 term.
Donita Grissom, association lecture of world languages education, was selected by the U.S. Department of State for a three-week English Language Specialist project in Vietnam at Hai Phong University.
Journal Editorial Leadership
Seongho An, Associate Editor, Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, School of Public Administration
Andrea Borowczak, Associate Editor, Journal of Science Teacher Education; Associate Editor, The ASEE Computers in Education Journal, School of Teacher Education
Dan Eadens, Associate Editor, International Journal for Educational Professionals, Department of Educational Leadership and Higher Education
Jacinta Gau, Editor-in-Chief, Race and Justice, Department of Criminal Justice
Glenda Gunter, Associate Editor, Journal of Formative Design and Learning, Department of Learning Sciences and Educational Research
Shiva Jahani, Associate Methodology Editor, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Insights, Department of Learning Sciences and Educational Research
Varadraj Prabhu Gurupur, Associate Editor, Frontiers in Digital Health; Associate Editor, Journal of Integrative Medicine; Associate Editor, Journal of Integrated Design Process Science, School of Global Health Management and Informatics
Jeremy Hall, Editor-in-Chief, Public Administration Review, School of Public Administration
Richard Hartshorne, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, Department of Learning Sciences and Educational Research
Qian Hu, Associate Editor, Chinese Public Administration Review (International Journal) and Associate Editor, Natural Hazards Review, School of Public Administration
Naim Kapucu, Associate Editor, Public Management Review and Associate Editor, Disaster Communications, School of Public Administration
Claire Knox, Associate Editor, Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management and Associate Editor, Natural Hazards Review, School of Public Administration
Sarah Larson, Associate Editor, Public Finance Journal, School of Public Administration
Young-Joo Lee, Associate Editor, Nonprofit Management and Leadership and Associate Editor, Public Administration Review, School of Public Administration
William Moreto, Associate Editor, Deviant Behavior, Department of Criminal Justice
Joyce Nutta, Co-Editor, Journal of English Learner Education, School of Teacher Education
Elsie L. Olan, Co-Editor, Florida Literacy Journal and Frontier Secondary Education; Associate Editor, Frontiers in Education, School of Teacher Education
Enrique Ortiz, Co-Editor, NCTM Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, School of Teacher Education
Jennifer Peck, Deputy Editor, Journal of Crime and Justice, Department of Criminal Justice
Sherron Killingsworth Roberts, Associate Editor, Early Childhood Education Journal, School of Teacher Education
William Russell, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Social Studies Research, School of Teacher Education
Sara Shaw, Managing Editor, Career and Technical Education Research, Department of Educational Leadership and Higher Education
Judit Szente, Associate Editor, Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, School of Teacher Education
Dalena Dillman Taylor, Editor, Journal of Child and Adolescent Counseling, Department of Counselor Education and School Psychology
Michelle Taub, Associate Editor, Learning and Instruction; Associate Editor, European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), Department of Learning Sciences and Educational Research
Samuel D. Towne, Associate Editor, BMC Public Health, School of Global Health Management and Informatics
Scott Waring, Editor-in-Chief, Social Studies and the Young Learner; Editor-in-Chief, Trends and Issues in Social Studies; Editor-in-Chief, Teaching with Primary Sources Journal, School of Teacher Education
Jungwon Yeo, Associate Editor, Informatization Policy and Associate Editor, Natural Hazards Review, School of Public Administration
Staci Zavattaro, Editor-in-Chief, Administrative Theory Praxis, School of Public Administration
2022-2023 University of Central Florida Awards
Luminary Awards
- Michele Gregoire Gill, Department of Learning Sciences and Educational Research
- Staci Zavattaro, School of Public Administration
