Addressing the Shortage of Black Men in the Academy: Insights From the Grad Prep Academy

• In Event: 69.031 - Diversifying the Pipeline to Professor: Insights From the Grad Prep Academy

Abstract

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.

Authors

• 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