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Perspectives: A Golden Opportunity

by ANSLEY ABRAHAM , January 20, 2009

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My belief is that young faculty members like Youngblood should recognize from whence they came and embrace the responsibility that circumstance and fortune have provided. “I am charged with energy to give back in so many ways, I shake at the awesomeness of the responsibility (and) the duty of this cherished mission,” Youngblood told us in an interview after he finished his Ph.D. “I owe more than I ever could repay,” he said.

Now, it’s the new generation of faculty members’ responsibility to lift students higher.

Dr. Ansley Abraham is the founding director of the SREB-State Doctoral Scholars Program, which is based in Atlanta. He can be reached at ansley.abraham@sreb.org. For more information about the SREB program, visit www.sreb.org and click on “Doctoral Scholars.”

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