Tag: Distinguished Educators

Wood Uses Scholarship to Promote Advocacy

Growing up in the small town of McCloud, California, Dr. J. Luke Wood became interested in higher education after noticing the lack of diversity in the faculty and administration during his undergraduate years at the California State University, Sacramento.

September 28, 2018

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Transitioning to Urban Education

After spending a decade at the University of Oklahoma, Dr. T. Elon Dancy II has joined the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh as the Helen S. Faison Chair and director of the Center for Urban Education.

September 27, 2018

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A Product of South Carolina

Despite his meteoric rise through the ranks of academia, Dr. James L. Moore III, isn’t shy about reminding anyone who he comes into contact with, that he’s a product of South Carolina.

September 27, 2018

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Learning from ‘Absentee’ Mentors

Dr. Vanessa Siddle Walker began her trajectory into education believing she wanted to be a journalist. She enrolled at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a journalism major but discovered that the field was not her calling.

September 26, 2018

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A Passionate Advocate for Gifted and Special Education Equity

Dr. Donna Y. Ford did it for her son. She was single and 18 when she gave birth to Khyle, and he motivated her to aim higher.

September 25, 2018

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A Social Scientist Committed to Inclusive Research

Dr. Margaret Beale Spencer’s scholarship is fueled by a responsibility to make her research on human development inclusive for youth of color. In doing so, she has resisted the traditional, stereotypical notions about the development of diverse children throughout her decades-long career.

September 24, 2018

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Professor Broadens Research Beyond the Academy

Seven years after Dr. Jerlando F. L. Jackson began teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an assistant professor, he earned tenure in 2007, was promoted to full professor in 2011, and then was named a Vilas Distinguished Professor of Higher Education in 2012. Created by the Vilas Estate Trustees, the professorships are university-wide distinctions with approximately 30 recipients. Jackson was the first African-American to be selected for this high honor.

September 21, 2018

Scholar Inspires Next Generation of Researchers

Even though Dr. James Earl Davis grew up in the rural South, near Huntsville, Alabama, he has always loved cities. Now, Davis — a prolific researcher and teacher — uses urban spaces as a platform for his scholarship at Temple University, where he holds the Bernard C. Watson Endowed Chair in Urban Education and is a professor of higher education and educational leadership.

September 20, 2018

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Scholarship at the Intersection of History, Education and Blackness

Were it not for the social tumult in Chicago in the summer and fall of 1967, Dr. James D. Anderson likely would not have walked away from the joy of teaching high school social studies, found refuge in a Ph.D. program studying the history of education and transitioned to a career in higher education.

September 19, 2018

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