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May 12, 2021
By Sherwin Francies, College of Education
A Washington State University College of Education professor has been invited to be a part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Mathematics Standing Committee.
Professor of mathematics education Amy Roth McDuffie accepted a two-year appointment to the committee to develop the 2026 NAEP assessment.
“It is an honor to be asked to join as a committee member and this assessment is critically important for our nation,” she said.
The NAEP assessment, often referred to as the nation’s report card, is a federally-legislated requirement to collect data that reports on educational progress among students in the context of teaching and teacher preparation. The assessment is distributed to a sample population of students in grades 4, 8 and 12.
A team of four WSU students are awaiting their score sheets after their public relations campaign won an honorable mention for the 2021 Bateman Case Study Competition.
Emily Harris, Bateman competition team leader and senior public relations major, said it was amazing to get recognized, especially because there were 54 teams nationwide.
Sherwin Francies, writing and research director for the Bateman competition and senior public relations major, said he was still sleeping when he received a call from another team member, Steffi Ludahl, social media coordinator for the competition and senior public relations major.
“The first thing she said was, ‘We didn’t place, but we got honorable mention,’” Francies said. “And it was bittersweet because we were really expecting to place, but we still received an honorable mention, which is huge.”
Sherwin Francies never quite knows what to say when people ask him where he is from.
The international student was born in India but spent much of his life growing up in Kuwait. Francies, senior public relations major, said his English accent throws most people off as he explains his complex background.
Francies’ parents are from India but immigrated to Kuwait during the early years of his life. Due to Kuwait’s distaste for the nation’s sizable immigrant population, he had to attend a private Engltudent sh school, he said.
“It’s almost as if being an immigrant … never feels safe in Kuwait,” Francies said. “Anytime you go outside, you’re supposed to carry [identification], and if you don’t, they have the right to just arrest you and deport you.”
April 6, 2021
According to the report, campus leaders were the least trusted among college personnel. Approximately 30% of first-year Black students said they trusted campus leadership very little or did not trust them all at a rate two times that of non-Black students.
By Sherwin Francies, College of Education, and
Maegan Murray, WSU Tri-Cities
Students of color trust colleges and college leadership less compared to their white peers, according to a national study developed by education researchers at Washington State University Tri-Cities and Indiana University.
The researchers’ results showed campus leaders were the least trusted among college personnel. Approximately 29% of first-year Black students said they did not trust their college leaders, while 16% of non-Black first-year students said the same.