UNC School of Education faculty and faculty emeriti, students, postdoctoral researchers, and alumni will present at and attend the annual American Educational Research Association (AERA) meeting, held in Denver April 23-27.
Each year, the conference serves as the world’s largest gathering of education researchers and a showcase for groundbreaking, innovative studies across a number of fields. The theme for the 2025 meeting is “Research, Remedy, and Repair: Toward Just Education Renewal.”
UNC School of Education scholars — including 22 faculty members, one faculty emerita, and more than 30 students and postdoctoral researchers — will participate in paper and poster sessions where they will present authored or co-authored papers throughout the conference. Also included in the conference are various symposia, roundtable discussions, professional development courses, and more. Though not presenting, even more faculty members and graduate students are represented in presented papers they co-authored.
Linda C. Tillman, Ph.D., professor emerita, has been selected as a 2025 Fellow of the American Educational Research Association ahead of the annual meeting. Nominated by peers, Tillman joins a group of 29 exemplary scholars named 2025 AERA Fellows who will be inducted during an April 24 ceremony. With this cohort, there are a total of 791 AERA Fellows, including current faculty member Dorothy Espelage, Ph.D., who was selected in 2008, and Jeff Greene, Ph.D., who was selected in 2024.
Doctoral students Tia Byers and Darren Williams will attend the conference as 2025 David L. Clark Scholars, an honor awarded by the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA). They will participate in the 2025 David L. Clark Graduate Student Research Seminar in Educational Administration and Policy, which brings together emerging educational administration and policy scholars with noted researchers for presentations, discussion, and professional growth.
UNC School of Education faculty, staff, students, and alumni activities at AERA 2025 include:
- 23 faculty and faculty emeriti, 24 graduate and undergraduate students, 4 post-doctoral researchers and recent post-doctoral researchers, and 2 staff members
- Involved in authoring 54 papers to be presented in:
- 20 roundtable sessions
- 12 paper sessions
- 11 symposia
- 8 poster sessions and 6 structured poster sessions
- Faculty members and doctoral students will serve as chair or discussants for 12 sessions
- One faculty member, Stephanie Anne Shelton, and one professor emeritus, Gregory J. Cizek, will deliver invited speaker talks
- Two faculty members will join AERA governance sessions
- Dorothy Espelage will chair the AERA Research Advisory Committee session
- Daniel Klasik will participate in the Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis session
For details and the full program of events for AERA 2025, visit aera.net.