CSULB Ed.D. Program

Congratulations to Dr. Devery Rodgers on her contributions to Artificial Intelligence and Ethical Concerns: Policy Responses Across U.S. Federal and State Systems, a new article on Taylor & Francis online!

You can read it through the link in bio. Go Beach! 🎉

A huge congratulations to Dr. Brenda Estrada of Ed.D. Cohort 9! The National Community College Hispanic Council (NCCHC) Leadership Fellows Program is a year long national leadership development experience for community college professionals ready to grow into senior and executive roles. Go Beach! 💛🦈

Last Saturday, we celebrated the beautiful career of our very own Dr. Vega at the Anatol Center! Faculty, students, and alumni gathered together to wish him a very happy retirement. 💛

Congratulations Dr. Bobby Rodgers on not only the publication of his book, The Sower: Lessons on Leadership, Mentorship, and the Power of Cultivating Lives and the first of many book talks, this one at The Cats Crawl in Hollywood! You can purchase the book from Amazon in the link in bio.

Congratulations to the new Dr. Alberto Jimenez on his successful Dissertation Defense!

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Huge congratulations to Chelsea Acevedo, 3rd year SDHE student! She was selected as one of the CSULB Graduate Fellows for this coming academic year (2026-27), and was also selected as a fellow for the inaugural Rural Research Mentorship Network cohort through MDRC’s National Rural Higher Education Research Center for this summer. Finally, she was recently selected as a Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholar for the upcoming 26-27 academic year and will be mentored by our own Dr. Avery Olson!

Go Beach! 🎉💛

A huge congratulations to Iman Hicks of Ed.D. Cohort 19! She received a CSU Trustee’s Award for Outstanding Achievement, which is given each year to students who demonstrate superior academic performance, personal accomplishments, community service, and financial need. Go Beach!

Congratulations to Dr. Alejandra Priede on the publication of her new book, Systems Transformation for Equity in Education with her colleagues Betina Hsieh and Tim Keirn! The book is out NOW through Myers Education Press, click the link in bio to purchase.

Instead of a formula, Systems Transformation for Equity in Education: Principles for Organizational Change introduces 6 key principles of organizational change. In order to engage in complex systems transformation for equity, we must:

1. know the contexts that surround systems change;
2. develop cohesive project plans and find appropriate funding for these plans;
3. understand the centrality of leadership;
4. work collectively towards equity through relationality, respect, and mutuality;
5. reflect upon success and challenges; and
6. ensure the institutionalization of systems transformation.

Truly an encapsulation of all we do here at EDLD! Go Beach! 💛🦈🎉

Congrats to Dr. Traci Ausby of Cohort 18 and Dr. Devery Rodger’s on their new article being published! The article, titled, How to increase foster youth’s sense of belonging in school, was published in EdCal, by the Association of California School Administrators.

Go alumni! Go Beach! 🦈💛

Congratulations to Dr. Rachelle McClendon-Alexander of Cohort 18 on presenting her doctoral research, Building Bridges, Breaking Barriers: Culturally Responsive Family Engagement through the Los Angeles Unified School District Black Student Achievement Plan (BSAP) at the 2026 National Community Schools and Family Engagement Conference at the end of May right here in Long Beach! 🎊🥳