Marcella McCollum

Lecturer, Communicative Disorders & Sciences

Marcella McCollum is a speech-language pathologist, lecturer, and doctoral candidate at San Jose State University. Her research interests focus on access of underrepresented/underserved student populations to appropriate education. She teaches courses and provides seminars in many areas, including language development, aging, clinical perspectives, supervision, accent, and multicultural issues. Marcella has been a member of medical and educational diagnostic/treatment teams and worked with diverse populations, including Native American, Hmong, and Somali families in Minnesota and California.

Education

• Candidate, Ed.D., Educational Leadership, San Jose State University
• M.A., Speech-Language Pathology, San Jose State University
• B.A., Psychological Services, University of San Francisco

Recent Presentations

• “Past, Present, and Future Directions of Dual Language Immersion in California Post Proposition 58” co-presented at the National Association of Bilingual Educators (NABE) conference, Las Vegas, NV (February, 2020)

• “Latinx and Hispanic Culture” invited speaker for Tapestry Grant project, San José State University (February, 2020)

• “Collaborating with Interpreters and Translators”, invited speaker for Tapestry Grant project, San José State University (December, 2019)
  
  
• “Educación Especial”, invited speaker, bilingual seminar, San José State University (October, 2019)
  
  
• “Introduction to Implicit Bias” invited speaker for Communication Works, Lafayette, CA. (August, 2019)

Noteworthy Grants and Awards

• 2020 - Awarded a Lurie College Strategic Plan Grant to develop a Social Justice Minor with Rebeca Burciaga.

• 2019 - Awarded a Lurie College Research and Teaching Collaboration (LC-RTC) grant with Matthew Love and Eduardo Munoz-Munoz to investigate the intersection between Dual Language Bilingual Education (DLBE) and Special Education.

• 2019 - Awarded three strategic priority grants to provide a cultural humility module to incoming graduate students, a gender equity module to graduate students in their final year of school, and an inaugural orientation for incoming undergraduate students.

Areas of Research Interest

• Bilingual immersion
• Higher education
• Latinx/Hispanic/Chicanx
• Speech-language pathology
• Undergraduate success

Recommended Reading

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• We Want to Do More Than Survive by Bettina Love

Personality Playlist

Listen to Marcella's playlist below and access all of the personality playlists on our Lurie College of Education Spotify account