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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) was no exception. Dr. Linda Darling- Hammond The leadership of the national research society that strives to advance knowledge about education and currently boasts a membership of about 25,000 scholars — remained exclusively white until the 1990s.

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Community-Engaged Scholar Dr. DeLeon Gray Believes in the Value of Hyperlocal Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. DeLeon Gray Gray is an associate professor of educational psychology and equity at North Carolina State University. Gray is also codesigning lapel pins with his mentees and selling them to raise money for their attendance at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

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Replacing Affirmative Action with ‘Positive Practices’

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Organizational exemplars who have been selected by their peers to lead national scholarly organizations include such esteemed figures as Aldon Morris from the American Sociological Association, Gloria Ladson-Billings from the American Education Research Association, and Caroline Turner from the Association for the Study of Higher Education.

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Research in Action: Dr. Jerlando F. L. Jackson

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She recalls appearing on a panel with him at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and following his research in the years following. An expert on rural education and school desegregation, Williams arrived at MSU as department chair a few years ago after serving on the faculty at the University of Georgia.

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2022: Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dietra Trent, a Hampton alumna, was appointed executive director of the White House Initiative on Advanced Educational Equity, Excellence and Economic Opportunity through Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Jackson, a prolific educational researcher, is the new dean of Michigan State University’s College of Education.