School of Professional & Continuing Studies

Tom Shields, SPCS associate dean, graduate education professor & program chair, facilitated a panel discussion reflecting on the Unpacking the Census project during its 10th anniversary celebration on November 7. Panelists were Jovan Burton, Partnership for Housing Affordability; Kendra Norrell, Institute for Sustainable Communities; Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, Virginia Commonwealth University; and Albert Walker, Richmond Memorial Health Foundation.

Daniel Hocutt, SPCS web manager and adjunct professor of liberal arts, has published with several co-authors an article, “Writing Infrastructure with the Fabric of Digital Life Platform,” in the first of two special issues on communication design and infrastructures in Communication Design Quarterly, the journal of the ACM Special Interest Group on Design of Communication (SIGDOC).

SPCS Associate Dean Tom Shields, chair & associate professor of graduate education, recently joined Professor Kim Bridges, GC’13, co-director of VCU’s doctoral program in educational leadership, to present “Socio-economic Issues in School Boundary Lines and Redistricting” during a Friday lunch series on redistricting in politics and government that was organized by Dave Soule in the Robins School of Business.

Wendell Roberts, adjunct professor of educational leadership, recently participated on a UVA K-12 Advisory Council panel discussion on the topic “Managing Matters of Local Governance: Roles of the Respective Local Players,” joining a Hanover County School Board member and the superintendent of Brunswick County Schools in the discussion.