Barbara Bush Fellowships at TCALL

The 2012-2013 Barbara Bush Fellowship
The Texas Center for the Advancement of Literacy and Learning (TCALL) announces the availability of up to $100,000 in Barbara Bush Fellowships for the 2012-2013 academic year. Each fellowship will consist of a one-year financial award, which may be used to offset the cost of travel expenses to conferences, dissertation research, tuition and fees, and/or maintenance while a student is enrolled in a doctoral program at Texas A&M University’s College Station campus. Up to four Barbara Bush Fellowships of $25,000 each will be awarded for research on topics relevant to Family Literacy.

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The Barbara Bush Fellowship Program

Since 2007, The Texas Center for the Advancement of Literacy and Learning (TCALL) has hosted Barbara Bush Fellows with original funding from the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, and with funding since 2010, from The Barbara Bush Texas Fund for Family Literacy.

The Barbara Bush Fellows are doctoral students at Texas A&M University-College Station who are engaged in research, writing, and development of resources and presentations in topics relevant to the field of family literacy education. TCALL administers the annual Fellowship competition and selection process, and its faculty leader, Dr. Mary V. Alfred, guides and mentors the Fellows in their research, publication and presentation activities.

These generous fellowships consist of a one-year award of up to $25,000, which may be used to offset the cost of travel expenses to conferences, dissertation research, and/or tuition, fees, and maintenance while a student is enrolled in a doctoral program at Texas A&M University. During their fellowship year, students have the opportunity to present their work at national family literacy conferences and to submit their research for publication in peer-reviewed journals.


The 2011-2912 Barbara Bush Fellows are:

Juana Vaquero, a doctoral student in school psychology, is interested in bilingual language development and migrant populations. She will address the scarcity of instruments for measuring the emergent literacy skills of preschoolers whose primary language is Spanish.

A doctoral student in adult education and human resource development, Mattyna Stephens will explore the participation in family literacy programs of grandparents who are primary caregivers of their grandchildren and how new skills are incorporated into family life.

Feyi Obamehinti, a doctoral student in K-12 school administration, will investigate the perception of family literacy among non-English speaking families and help to correct inaccurate perceptions that create barriers to setting and meeting family literacy goals.

Read more about accomplishments of the Barbara Bush Fellows since 2007.