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69.031 - Diversifying the Pipeline to Professor: Insights From the Grad Prep Academy
Mon, May 1, 12:25 to 1:55pm, Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 217 BSession Type: Symposium
Abstract
In light of national calls to diversify the professoriate, this session will highlight the Grad Prep Academy as an effective program model for graduate school outreach recruitment and preparation.
This session will advance discourse around the need for a more diversified professoriate generally and specifically among Black men. Bringing together a panel of past participants in the Grad Prep Academy, an initiative launched in 2009 at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, to prepare talented Black undergraduate men for doctoral study and research-related careers in the field of education. The project is also a longitudinal research study that examines Black men’s trajectories from undergraduate education through graduate degree programs and eventually into their careers.
Sub Unit
Division J - Postsecondary Education / Division J - Section 2b: College Student Success and Outcomes
Chair
Papers
Addressing the Shortage of Black Men in the Academy: Insights From the Grad Prep Academy - Mauriell H. Amechi, University of Redlands; Demetri L. Morgan, Loyola University Chicago; Justin Avery Coles, Michigan State University; Jalil Bishop, University of California - Los Angeles; Anthony Johnson, Northwestern University; Chauncey Delorian Smith, John H. Hopps Defense Research Scholars - Morehouse College - SROP - University of Michigan
Disrupting the Status Quo Through Racial Justice: Reflections on the Grad Prep Academy - Jalil Bishop, University of California - Los Angeles
Exploring the Experience of a Black Male in a Teacher Education Doctoral Program - Justin Avery Coles, Michigan State University
Role Models, Pipelines, and "Secret Handshakes": The Influence of the Grad Prep Academy - Chauncey Delorian Smith, John H. Hopps Defense Research Scholars - Morehouse College - SROP - University of Michigan