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Dr. Emily J Summers

  • Associate Professor - Curriculum And Instruction
Portrait of Dr. Emily J Summers

Education

Doctorate Degree

EDD in Curriculum and Instruction

University of Houston, 2004

Bachelor's Degree

BA in Environmental Studies and Foreign Service

Baylor University, 1994

  • Cordero, Rafael A (Principal), Summers, Emily J (Co-Principal), McEwen, Danielle (Co-Principal), Perez, Renee (Co-Principal). Childcare Access Means Parents In School (CCAMPIS), U.S. Department of Education, Federal, $4700000. (Funded: September 2025 - August 2029). Grant.
  • Solem, M. (Principal), Boehm, R. G. (Co-Principal), Summers, Emily J (Co-Principal). RAPID: Geospatial Resources, Materials, and Tools for STEM Teacher Preparation, National Science Foundation, Federal, $19981. (Funded: 2014 - 2015). Grant.
  • Summers, Emily J (Principal). An investigation responding to educators' needs for increased social studies college and career readiness equity and access, Social Studies Faculty Collaborative on College and Career Readiness Initiative, State, $23471. (Funded: 2011 - 2014). Grant.
  • Summers, Emily J (Principal), Dickinson, G. D. (Co-Principal). Developing teacher competence to support college and career readiness standards, Faculty Collaborative on College and Career Readiness Initiative, Austin Community College District, Institutional (Higher Ed), $6063. (Funded: 2010). Grant.
  • Solem, Michael (Principal), Huynh, Niem (Co-Principal), Boehm, Richard G (Co-Principal), Summers, Emily J (Co-Principal). Geospatial Resources, Materials and Tools for STEM Teacher Preparation, National Science Foundation - RAPID, Federal, $199816. (Funded: August 15, 2014 - August 15, 2015). Grant.
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  • Summers, E. J., Fosu, F. A., Hanson, L. S., & Kelemen, W. L. (n.d.). Understanding Psychology Undergraduate Student Perceptions on the Use of Generative AI in a Research Methods Course. Translational Issues in Psychological Science.
  • Summers, E. J., Barantsova (Баранцова), T., & Womack, L. S. (2025). Educational continuity, resiliency, and allyship: Virtually supporting internally displaced Ukrainian students. In Book of Abstracts of the 9th World Conference of Qualitative Research. Anais Eletrônicos, Galoá. Retrieved from https://proceedings.science/wcqr-2025/papers/
  • Tufano, V. E., & Summers, E. J. (2025). Pandemic era phenomenological research about nursing education. New Trends in Qualitative Research, 21(1), 1–13.
  • Summers, E. J., McEwen, D., Cordero, R. A., & Silva, J. (2024). A mixed methods study of student veterans’ academic and service transitions before, during, and after attending community college(s). New Directions for Community Colleges., (Practices, policies, and support for student veterans in community colleges.), 1–16. Retrieved from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cc.20626
  • Tufano, V. C., Summers, E. J., & Covington, B. G. (2023). Motivators for nurse educators to persist in their profession: A phenomenological research study. Nurse Education Today, 123. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2023.105725
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  • Award / Honor Recipient: Taylor & Francis Journal of College Reading and Learning Research Grant, Taylor & Francis Journal of College Reading and Learning Research. October 2024 - April 2026
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Twelfth Annual Award for Excellence in Online Teaching, Runner Up, Texas State University Online & Extended Programs (OXP). 2025
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Favorite Professor, Alfred H. Nolle Chapter (Texas State University) of the Alpha Chi National Honor Scholarship Society, Alfred H. Nolle Chapter (Texas State University) of the Alpha Chi National Honor Scholarship Society. 2023
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Teaching Award of Honor. 2020
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi Favorite Professors, 2016, Alfred H. Nolle Chapter (Texas State) of the Alpha Chi National Honor Scholarship Society. 2016
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  1. Peace Corps Virtual Service Pilot, Support for Displaced Vulnerable Youth through English and Resiliency Club, Luhansk Region Association of Women, Youth, Families with Disability of Eastern Donbas– East, Ukraine.

  2. Member

    TXST Classroom Technology Committee

  3. Editorial Review Board Member

    New Trends in Qualitative Research

  4. Other

    Journal of College Academic Support Programs

  5. Chair

    Postsecondary Student Success Scholarship Committee

  6. Editorial Review Board Member

    Scientific Committee, World Conference on Qualitative Research and Congresso Ibero-Americano em Investigação Qualitativa

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