Rachel Glade
Rachel Glade, clinical assistant professor and program director for the communication sciences and
disorders program, College of Education and Health Professions.
Rachel Glade has served on the COEHP Honors Council for the past two years and co-led
the Health Teams Abroad Sweden course that included honors students this past year.
In the past three years, Glade has chaired 11 honors theses for COEHP, served on an
additional eight honors thesis committees and also mentored eight undergraduate research
projects.
Her students have conducted research on topics such as how adolescents with hearing
loss experience bullying and the impact of hearing loss on executive function skills
and working memory in young adults. All of her honors thesis mentees received funding
for their research and presentations of their work, and one received a SURF grant.
Glade’s honors students have consistently presented at local, state and national conferences.
Glade has won numerous awards at the U of A, including the Outstanding Service Award
for Rehabilitation, Human Resources, and Communication Disorders (2017), Outstanding
Faculty Mentor for COEHP’s Honors Program (2019), the Innovative Teaching Award for
COEHP (2019), and the University of Arkansas Faculty Gold Medal (2019).
In addition to her role as program director for the communication sciences and disorders
program, Glade is also currently serving as the program’s interim clinical education
coordinator and was elected by her colleagues and peers across Arkansas to serve as
the president-elect for the Arkansas Speech-Language-Hearing Association, a three-year term that started in January of 2019.