Jazmine Sargent
Jazmine Mae Sargent is currently working towards a bachelor’s degree in general psychology, a minor in technical communication, and a UX design user certificate at Eastern Washington University. Jazmine is a pink and bubbly person who looks for all the good things this world has to offer. She loves to dance, crochet, and try new things. Jazmine is also highly disciplined in her work and continuously puts full effort into all her academic and personal projects.
She says that after attaining her undergraduate degree she plans on pursuing a doctoral program in a more specific field of psychology. Jazmine is an Honors student, a Trio Ronald E. McNair scholar, a PSI CHI member, and a member of the National Honor Society of Collegiate Scholars. She is also the treasurer for the swim club at EWU and plans to get more involved with the club as time goes on.
She is interested in researching areas related to the development of Social-emotional learning (SEL), and emotional intelligence among adolescents and children. Jazmine plans to present her ideas at research symposiums and psychology research conferences in the future. Her career goal is to implement a research-based SEL curriculum in the K-12 school systems to help support student’s well-being and decrease the rate of suicide among children and adolescents.
Jazmine will keep putting effort into her academics to achieve her life goal of helping the youth of our future.
2025 EWU Faculty Research Mentor: Dr. Sarah Johansson
Qualitative Comparison of Social Emotional Infrastructure across Washington, Oregon, & New York
Abstract: This study explores qualitative data from state legislation document, to answer the question: How does Social Emotional Learning (SEL) state infrastructure compare across Washington, Oregon, and New York. Collected the most recent state legislation documents on state government websites regarding SEL. Organized, typed, coded, and examined this qualitative data in an excel
document. When analysis of policies, standards, and approaches in state legislation is complete, hopefully it can be determined whether state SEL differs from state to state and in what critical ways it does or does not. This research can provide insight on the potential value for moving towards a federal system of infrastructure for SEL.
