UWF in the Community

UWF to host Rocky Mountain Educational Research Association 46th Annual Conference

The University of West Florida Community Outreach, Research and Learning Center, also known as CORAL, and the Department of Research and Advanced Studies will host the Rocky Mountain Educational Research Association 46th Annual Conference Oct. 23-25 at the Hampton Inn on Pensacola Beach.

The University of West Florida Community Outreach, Research and Learning Center, also known as CORAL, and the Department of Research and Advanced Studies will host the Rocky Mountain Educational Research Association 46th Annual Conference Oct. 23-25 at the Hampton Inn on Pensacola Beach.

RMERA, an affiliate of the American Educational Research Association, promotes the use of educational research to improve education and benefit local organizations and the communities that they serve. This is the second time that Pensacola and UWF have hosted the RMERA annual conference. Dr. Carla Thompson, associate professor of research and advanced studies and director of the CORAL Center, gained the bid for hosting the 2014 RMERA Conference and serves as program chair for the conference.

This year’s conference focuses on community engagement research activities and features more than 100 educational research presentations. The target audience is comprised of researchers, graduate faculty members and doctoral students from higher education institutions within Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas who are interested in initiating partnerships to conduct mutually beneficial, community-engaged research efforts.

The keynote session, “Community-Engaged Research: Voices from the Community,” will be held on Friday, Oct. 24 at the National Naval Aviation Museum and will feature a welcome from UWF President Judy Bense. Additionally, a panel of presenters from the Gulf Coast community will speak on existing partnerships with the CORAL Center. Each presenter will highlight how UWF and the CORAL Center have made a direct, lasting impact on their organization and the communities they serve by designing, conducting and reporting the results of research. Panel members include local superintendents of area school districts, military personnel and social service agencies.

For additional information, visit http://uwf.im/rmera.