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Dr. Sarah Ozuna Brown, EdD ’24, earned the prestigious 2024-2025 Problem of Practice Dissertation of the Year Award for her study on Texas families’ struggles to access high-quality childcare. Her innovative research reveals deep systemic barriers and offers powerful insights that could shape future education policy and support for families nationwide.
Baylor University is launching three fully online graduate programs in Fall 2025 to prepare educators, corporate trainers, and professionals across industries for careers in digital learning and instructional design, with flexible, accelerated pathways and hands-on experience in emerging technologies.
Dr. Joshua Smith, assistant director of the Research and Writing Development Center (RWDC) for Baylor School of Education’s EdD in Learning and Organizational Change (EdD-LOC) and associate graduate faculty member, was named one of the seven recipients of the Baylor 2025 Outstanding Staff Award. Since he joined the RWDC in 2020, Smith has helped equip EdD students with the research and writing skills needed to produce a research dissertation at an R1 university while making an immediate practical impact in their professional practices.
When Carolyn Price’s mother told her, “There isn’t anything you can’t do,” she couldn’t have imagined the far-reaching those words would have on her daughter’s life — including becoming the oldest known doctoral recipient in Baylor history, at age 83.
As we celebrate Black History Month, we asked Dr. Marquita Foster, lecturer and graduate program director for Baylor SOE’s EdD in Learning & Organizational Change, to share insights from her teaching career and research. A former middle and high school English teacher, Dr. Foster has published on topics including Black feminism, cultural approaches to classroom disciplines, and storytelling in Black and indigenous traditions. She explains why storytelling is so important in Black culture and shares some good stories to read.
Baylor School of Education staff member Dr. Lacy K. Crocker Papadakis received the 2024 Baylor Distinguished Staff Leadership Award. Papadakis serves as Director of the Research and Writing Development Center (RDWC) in the EdD in Learning and Organizational Change program.
Dr. Annmarie Crum, a December 2022 graduate of the EdD Learning and Organizational Change online program at Baylor University, was awarded Baylor’s Outstanding Dissertation Award for her work exploring inequities in STEM education.
Dr. Alicia Briancon, EdD ’23, instructor at College of Southern Nevada (CSN), a community college in Clark County, Nevada, received the Outstanding Research Paper Award for the Southeastern Universities Graduate Research Symposium (SUGRS).