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UWF hosts research conference

October 22, 2014
/ Staff Reports
/ education

Using research to improve education and benefit local organizations is the topic of discussion at a conference sponsored by the University of West Florida. The Rocky Mountain Education Research Association 46^th annual conference will be from Thursday through Saturday at the Hampton Inn on Pensacola Beach. The conference focuses on community engagement research activities and features more than 100 educational research presentations. The keynote session, “Community-Engaged Research: Voices from the Community,” will be held on Friday at the National Naval Aviation Museum. An affiliate of the American Education Research Association, RMERA promotes the use of educational research and seeks to help local organizations and the communities they serve. This marks the second year that UWF Community Outreach, Research and Learning Center, known as CORAL, and the Department of Research and Advanced Studies have hosted the annual conference. The conference will include researchers, graduate faculty members and doctoral students from colleges and universities in Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Florida who are interested in partnerships to conduct research efforts. A panel of presenters from the Gulf Coast community will talk about partnerships with the CORAL Center. The panel will include area school superintendents, members of the military and social service agencies. Each presenter will highlight how UWF and the Coral Center have made an impact on their organization and the communities they serve by designing, conducting and reporting the results of research. For more information, visit http://uwf.im/rmera.

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