{"id":55698,"date":"2023-11-30T10:48:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T15:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=55698"},"modified":"2023-12-10T10:14:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T15:14:49","slug":"utc-senior-receives-honor-at-her-final-undergraduate-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2023\/11\/utc-senior-receives-honor-at-her-final-undergraduate-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"UTC senior receives honor at her final undergraduate conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_55701\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"821\" data-attachment-id=\"55701\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2023\/11\/utc-senior-receives-honor-at-her-final-undergraduate-conference\/img_8810\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/11\/IMG_8810-e1701359783715.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,821\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone XR&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1699606972&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.25&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_8810\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/11\/IMG_8810-e1701359783715-1024x657.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-55701 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/11\/IMG_8810-e1701359783715.jpg\" alt=\"Rebekah Cahill presented \u201cSchool District Gerrymandering and Student Performance: A Look into How Central Alabama Is Failing Its Most Vulnerable Students&quot; at the recent National Collegiate Honors Council conference in Chicago (photo courtesy of Rebekah Cahill).\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/11\/IMG_8810-e1701359783715.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/11\/IMG_8810-e1701359783715-1024x657.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/11\/IMG_8810-e1701359783715-768x493.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/11\/IMG_8810-e1701359783715-800x513.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/11\/IMG_8810-e1701359783715-580x372.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/11\/IMG_8810-e1701359783715-610x391.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/11\/IMG_8810-e1701359783715-1536x986.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rebekah Cahill presented \u201cSchool District Gerrymandering and Student Performance: A Look into How Central Alabama Is Failing Its Most Vulnerable Students&#8221; at the recent National Collegiate Honors Council conference in Chicago (photo courtesy of Rebekah Cahill).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brock Scholar and elementary education major Rebekah Cahill has attended numerous Honors College conferences during her time as a University of Tennessee at Chattanooga student, calling the trips \u201cone of my favorite parts about being in honors. I love getting to meet students from all different parts of the country and doing a lot of networking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She can add earning recognition to her personal \u201cfavorite parts\u201d list.<\/p>\n<p>Cahill, who will be graduating from UTC in December, placed second in the 2023 Sloane Prize for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) poster competition at the 58th annual National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) conference in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>NCHC\u2019s annual meeting is the second-largest all-discipline undergraduate research conference and the largest national gathering of honors educators, administrators and staff members. SPUR award winners were selected from more than 250 student participants who presented posters in various categories.<\/p>\n<p>Cahill, a native of Alabaster, Alabama, placed second out of 29 presenters in the Education and Pedagogy category. Her departmental honors thesis, directed by Dr. Rachael Davis, was titled \u201cSchool District Gerrymandering and Student Performance: A Look into How Central Alabama Is Failing Its Most Vulnerable Students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like Cahill, Davis grew up in Jefferson County in Alabama, located in the central portion of the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt turned out to be kind of kismet,\u201d Davis said. \u201cShe was talking to us about the differences of gerrymandering and succession in school systems inside of Jefferson County, Alabama, and I knew exactly what she was talking about because I lived there. It&#8217;s one of those things that&#8217;s really difficult to explain to someone who didn\u2019t grow up in Jefferson County.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRebekah did a fantastic job explaining and presenting at the National Collegiate Honors Conference\u2014and she just passed her thesis defense last week. She is an absolutely outstanding scholar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For her project, Cahill analyzed 2019-2020 third-grade reading achievement scores across 12 school districts located in Jefferson County to make the case that intentional student segregation by socioeconomic status, known as SES, has created an environment where lower SES are set up for academic failure.<\/p>\n<p>She began researching the topic as a high school senior at Jefferson County International Baccalaureate School (JCIB).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a culmination of years and years of research,\u201d Cahill said. \u201cEveryone who goes to JCIB and lives there is aware of the gerrymandering and the segregation of school districts. But it\u2019s not something that\u2019s really formally discussed; it\u2019s kind of just known.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo in high school, I decided to look at the relationship between student socioeconomic class and proficiency. That was where I started taking this idea of what everyone knew was happening and turning it into something quantifiable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cahill continued to be very interested in researching educational inequality during her time in the UTC Honors College, she said, and the topic became the subject of her honors thesis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my thesis, I talk about teacher qualifications, teacher retention, things like that, and just the curriculum availability\u2014all the different things that go into giving someone a high-quality education, which is a student\u2019s right in the United States,\u201d she said. \u201cThe research that I did at NCHC and for my thesis is kind of like a culmination of three or four different projects I\u2019ve done since I was a senior in high school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Linda Frost, dean of the UTC Honors College, lauded Cahill\u2019s placing at the Chicago NCHC conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRebekah\u2019s award is indicative of several things,\u201d Frost said. \u201cFirst, it is a testimony to the impressive work she has done on her departmental honors thesis. Second, it shows Rebekah\u2019s overall concern for the importance of education as a means by which we can increase or, in this case, decrease equity. Third, it shows us how great our students\u2019 work really is. We are all so proud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This was the second consecutive year a UTC student placed in the NHCH poster competition. At the 2022 conference in Dallas, Jannat Saaed\u2019s \u201cCirce to Desi: The Five Stages\u201d won first place in the Arts and Humanities category.<\/p>\n<p>While at UTC, Cahill was a student assistant director for the Honors College and a student research fellow. She also worked with Teach for America and its Ignite Fellowship, tutoring different grade levels and spent this semester as a student teacher at Battle Academy in Chattanooga.<\/p>\n<p>Cahill said she officially submitted her honors thesis while in Chicago, \u201cso I presented my research and finished my actual paper. It felt like a breath of fresh air lifted off my shoulders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if I would not have placed, I still would\u2019ve been very proud of my project because I know what I\u2019m doing is important,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen you feel personally about the subject, it makes it much easier to be proud of what you\u2019ve done. These aren\u2019t just random students who I\u2019ve selected from. I mean, my siblings are students in Jefferson County, Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReceiving the recognition just kind of reaffirmed to me that what I was doing was important and that my years of research really did pay off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learn More<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utc.edu\/enrollment-management-and-student-affairs\/admissions\/visit\">Visit UTC<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utc.edu\/honors-college\">UTC Honors College<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utc.edu\/honors-college\/future-honors-college-students\">Future Honors College Students<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utc.edu\/health-education-and-professional-studies\/school-of-education\">School of Education<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utc.edu\/apply\">How to apply<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock Scholar and elementary education major Rebekah Cahill, who will be graduating from UTC in December, placed second in the 2023 Sloane Prize for Undergraduate Research poster competition at the 58th annual National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) conference in Chicago. 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