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Underserved Populations at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 266

Underserved Populations at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

This book focuses on the experiences of underserved student and faculty at historically Black colleges and universities. Encompassing institutional supports, identity development, and socialization patterns, it explores how “outsider” perspectives will impact future research and practice, while also emphasizing issues of diversity and inclusion.

The Beauty and the Burden of Being a Black Professor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

The Beauty and the Burden of Being a Black Professor

By presenting discussions on professional development, and emphasizing the challenges and triumphs experienced by Black professors across disciplines, this book provides advice for junior Black scholars on how to navigate academe and tackle the challenges that Black scholars often face.

Journeys of Black Women in Academe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 201

Journeys of Black Women in Academe

Journeys of Black Women in Academe provides lessons that are instructive to faculty and administrators across race and gender boundaries relative to the successes and challenges that African American women continue to experience in academia.

Professional Education at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

Professional Education at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-08-07
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book focuses on the significant role that professional education programs play at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and these programs’ impact on society. Chapter authors discuss the contexts and experiences of students who have attended these programs, including their relationships with faculty, research opportunities, professional growth, personal enrichment, and institutional support. Taking into account social supports, identity development, and doctoral student socialization patterns, this book sheds light on what development and status of such professional education programs mean for future research and practice, while emphasizing issues of race, oppression, and marginalization.

Young, Gifted and Missing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 152

Young, Gifted and Missing

Acting as a bridge between the academic and policymaking communities, Young, Gifted and Missing sets the stage for addressing critical issues around why African American men are absent in the STEM disciplines.

The Future of American Higher Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 181

The Future of American Higher Education

"This impressive anthology presents the reader with an introduction to a gallery of public intellectuals through the critical eyes of a wide array of contributing writers from various academic fields. Both the latter and the public intellectuals themselves are responding to the state of American higher education. Importantly, most of them (there are a few public intellectuals in the book who cling closer to the status quo) do not separate colleges and universities from the political, economic, and social currents of American society. They attack the realities of growing social inequality, the intractable presence of institutional racism, and the recurrent reliance on the free market as the a...

Best Practices and Programmatic Approaches for Mentoring Educational Leaders
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

Best Practices and Programmatic Approaches for Mentoring Educational Leaders

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-02-17
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

In today’s educational world, supporting graduate students from all backgrounds and ensuring they receive the best education possible is vital. Due to this, academic mentors and graduate student mentoring programs must provide equitable support within learning environments as a construct of social justice for supporting the success of advanced, underrepresented student learners. Best Practices and Programmatic Approaches for Mentoring Educational Leaders discusses empowered perspectives about conceptual and best practice approaches regarding mentoring and supporting doctoral students' success and considers the area of diversity and inclusion in higher education related to best practices in programming. Covering topics such as educational leadership, higher education, mentoring networks, and communities, this reference work is ideal for industry professionals, administrators, policymakers, researchers, academicians, scholars, practitioners, instructors, and students.

Broadening Participation in STEM
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 378

Broadening Participation in STEM

This book reports on high impact educational practices and programs that have been demonstrated to be effective at broadening the participation of underrepresented groups in the STEM disciplines.

Diversity and Triumphs of Navigating the Terrain of Academe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 165

Diversity and Triumphs of Navigating the Terrain of Academe

This volume is written as a treatise to dismantle the powers of discriminatory incubuses that have haunted institutions of higher learning, one narrative at a time.

Research Anthology on Instilling Social Justice in the Classroom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1673

Research Anthology on Instilling Social Justice in the Classroom

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-11-27
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

The issue of social justice has been brought to the forefront of society within recent years, and educational institutions have become an integral part of this critical conversation. Classroom settings are expected to take part in the promotion of inclusive practices and the development of culturally proficient environments that provide equal and effective education for all students regardless of race, gender, socio-economic status, and disability, as well as from all walks of life. The scope of these practices finds itself rooted in curriculum, teacher preparation, teaching practices, and pedagogy in all educational environments. Diversity within school administrations, teachers, and studen...