Crystal Howell
Education faculty attends Conference on Meaningful Living and Learning in a Digital World

Crystal Howell, Beth Gafford, and Taryn Robertson attended in preparation for launching the fully online Master of Arts in Teaching and Master of Education programs. ... READ MORE >>
Randolph professors granted tenure

Psychology professor Sara Beck, education professor Crystal Howell, and political science professor Aaron Shreve were recently granted tenure by the Randolph College Board of Trustees.... READ MORE >>
Molseed, Howell present at American Association for Teaching and Curriculum conference

They co-presented “Critical Cooperation: Faculty and Library Partnerships.” ... READ MORE >>
Randolph honored for partnership with Lynchburg City Schools

Randolph College was honored for its 20-year partnership with LCS in November. ... READ MORE >>
Howell named president of American Association for Teaching and Curriculum

She also received the 2021 Francis P. Hunkins Distinguished Article Award in the category of teaching from the Curriculum Teaching Dialogue journal.... READ MORE >>
Telling their stories: Summer Research looking at how schools reflect social, economic changes

Kyle May ’21 and education professor Crystal Howell are working to tell the stories of three different communities, reflected in both the industries that sustain them and the conditions of their schools, through work for Randolph’s Summer Research Program.... READ MORE >>
Randolph education professor publishes article in Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue

Education professor Crystal Howell recently published an article titled “Our Professional Obligations in the Education Marketplace” in the journal, Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue. In the article, Howell describes a frustrating experience trying to recruit study participants from an online charter school whose faculty, staff, and operations overall were mostly hidden from public view, even though... READ MORE >>
Mining information: Summer Research considers role of social media in organizing West Virginia teacher strikes

When Caleb Schmitzer ’21 gets deeply engaged in conversation, he knows his Minnesotan accent sometimes slips out. But thanks to his Summer Research project with education professor Crystal Howell, he’s become very familiar with a different type of accent—the one shared by the many West Virginian educators he has talked with about teacher pay and... READ MORE >>
Professor Crystal Howell lectures at Indiana University education symposium

On Friday, February 15, Randolph education professor Crystal Howell delivered an invited lecture at the Curriculum and Instruction Research Creative Activity Symposium at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Howell’s lecture was entitled “Finding a job and finding your way: Navigating the transition from graduate school to the professoriate.” She was one of several faculty from... READ MORE >>
Q&A with new faculty: Crystal Howell

Randolph College’s 2018-19 academic year is officially underway, and there are several new faces among the faculty. Education professor Crystal Howell is one of the new additions: Where are you from originally and what is your background? I am from West Virginia—you’ll probably hear me call it Best Virginia—but I’m delighted to be living here... READ MORE >>