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Clifton F. Conrad
Professor
Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis
University of Wisconsin-Madison(608) 263-3411
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Research Interests: Curriculum trends and innovations, liberal and general education, curriculum design, program review and evaluation, academic change, and diversity in higher education

Selected Publications:

Kim, M. M. & Conrad, C. F. (2006). The impact of historically Black colleges and universities
on the academic success of African-American students. Research in Higher Education, 47(4),
399-427.

Johnson, J. N., Conrad, C. F. Perna, L. (2006). Minority-serving institutions of higher education:
Building upon and extending lines of inquiry for the advancement of the public good. In The
SAGE Handbook on Research in Education: Engaging Ideas and Enriching Inquiry, (Clifton
Conrad and Ronald Serlin, Eds). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, pp. 263-277.

Weerts, D. J. & Conrad, C. F. (2002). Desegregation in higher education. In Encyclopedia of
Higher Education in the United States, (James JF Forest and Kevin Kinser, Eds). Santa Barbara,
California: ABC-CLIO, pp. 161-167.

Conrad, C. F., Brier, E. M., & Braxton, J. (1997). Factors contributing to the matriculation of White students in public HBCUs. Journal for a Just and Caring Education, 3, 37-62.

Conrad, C. F., & Shrode, P. E. (1990). The long road: Desegregating higher education. Thought
and Action, 6(1), 35-45.

Laura Perna
Associate Professor
Policy, Management, & Evaluation Division
Penn Graduate School of Education

(215) 746-2522
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Research Interests: Access and higher education

Selected Publications:

Perna, L. W. (in press). The benefits of higher education: Sex, racial/ethnic, and socioeconomic group differences. Review of Higher Education.

Perna, L.W. (2004). Understanding the decision to enroll in graduate school: Sex and racial/ethnic group differences. Journal of Higher Education 75: 487-527.

Perna, L.W. (2003). The status of women and minorities among community college faculty. Research in Higher Education 44: 205-240.

Perna, L. W. (2002). Pre-college outreach programs: Characteristics of programs serving historically underrepresented groups of students. Journal of College Student Development 43: 64-83.

Perna, L.W. (2001). The contribution of historically Black colleges and universities to the preparation of African Americans for faculty careers. Research in Higher Education 42: 267-294.

Perna, L.W. (2000). Differences in the decision to enroll in college among African Americans, Hispanics, and Whites. Journal of Higher Education 71: 117-141.


James T. Minor
Assistant Professor of Higher Education
Department of Educational Administration
College of Education
Michigan State University

(517) 432-1519
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Research Interests: organizational theory; governance and decision making in higher education; higher education policy; how governance patterns influences the performance of historically Black colleges and universities, and African higher education systems

Selected Publications:

Minor, J. T. (in press). Groundwork for studying governance at historically black colleges and universities. In Gasman, M., Benjamin, B., and C. Turner (Eds.), Understanding minority serving institutions: Interdisciplinary perspectives. SUNY Press.

Minor, J. T. (2005). Faculty governance at historically Black colleges and universities. Academe, 91(3), 34-37.

Minor, J. T. (2004). Dilemmas of decision-making in historically Black colleges and universities:
Defining the context. Journal of Negro Education, 73(1), 40- 52.


Florence B. Bonner
Professor and Chair
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Howard University

(202) 806-6853
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Research Interests: Race, ethnic and gender relations, urban sociology, sociology of deviance, and sociology of the family

Selected Publications:

Bonner, F. B. (2001). Addressing gender issues in the historically Black college and university community: A challenge and call to action. The Journal of Negro Education 70(3): 176-191.

Bonner, F. B., & Thomas, V. G. (2001). Introduction and overview: New and continuing challenges and opportunities for Black women in the academy. The Journal of Negro Education 70(3): 121-23.


Marybeth Gasman
Associate Professor of Higher Education
University of Pennsylvania

(215) 573-3990
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Research Interests: Issues of philanthropy and historically black colleges, black leadership, contemporary fundraising issues at black colleges, African-American giving

Selected Publications:

Gasman, M. (2007). Envisioning Black colleges: A history of the United Negro College Fund Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Gasman, M. (2006). Truth, generalizations, and stigmas: An analysis of the media’s coverage of Morris Brown College and Black Colleges overall. Review of Black Political Economy.

Gasman, M. (2006). Education in Black and White: New perspectives on the history of historically Black colleges and universities,” Teachers College Record (www.tcrecord.org).

Gasman, M. (March-April 2006). Salvaging ‘academic disaster areas’: The Black college response to Christopher Jencks’ and David Riesman’s 1967 Harvard Educational Review Article. Journal of Higher Education, 77(1), 317-352.

Gasman, M. (2005). Coffee table to classroom: A review of recent scholarship on historically Black colleges and universities. Educational Researcher, 34(7), 32-39

Gasman, M. (2005). The role of faculty in fundraising at Black colleges: What is it and what can
it become? International Journal of Educational Advancement, 5(2), 171-179.

Gasman, M. and Epstein, E. (2004). Creating an image for Black colleges: A visual examination of the United Negro College Fund’s publicity, 1944—1960. Educational Foundations, 18(2).

Gasman, M. (2004). Rhetoric vs. reality: The fundraising messages of the United Negro College
Fund in the immediate aftermath of the Brown decision. History of Education Quarterly, 44(1).

Gasman M., & Anderson-Thompkins, S. (2003). Fund raising from Black college alumni.
Successful strategies for supporting alma mater. Washington, D.C.: CASE Books.

Gasman, M. (2002). A word for every occasion: Appeals by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. to White
donors on behalf of the United Negro College Fund. History of Higher Education Annual, 22,
67-90.

Gasman, M. (2002). An untapped resource: Bringing African Americans into the college and
university giving process. The CASE International Journal of Educational Advancement, 2(3),
280-292.

Gasman, M. (2002). W.E.B. Du Bois and Charles S. Johnson: Opposing views on philanthropic
support for Black higher education. History of Education Quarterly, 42(4), 493-516.

Gasman, M., & Epstein, E. (2002). Modern art in the old south: The role of the arts in Fisk
University’s campus curriculum. Educational Researcher, 31(2), 13-20.

Gasman, M. (2001). Charles S. Johnson and Johnnetta Cole: Successful role models for
fundraising at historically Black colleges and universities. The CASE International Journal of
Educational Advancement, 1(3), 237-252.

Gasman, M. (2001). Passport to the front of the bus: The impact of Fisk University’s
international program on race relations in Nashville, Tennessee. 49th Parallel – The International
Journal of North American Studies, 7. Retrieved January 12, 2006 from
http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk/back/issue7/gasman.htm.

Gasman, M. (2001). The president as ethical role model: Instilling an ethic of leadership at Fisk
University during the 1950s. Journal of College and Character, 2. Retrieved online January 17,
2006 at http://www.collegevalues.org/articles.cfm?a=1&id=510.

Gasman, M. (1999). Scylla and Charybdis: Navigating the waters of academic freedom at Fisk
University during Charles S. Johnson’s administration (1946-1956). American Educational
Research Journal, 36(4), 739-758.


Gregory N. Price
Charles E. Merrill Professor & Chair
Department of Economics
Morehouse College
Atlanta, GA 30314
404 - 653 -7870
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Research Interests: Black colleges (particularly economics departments/research)

Selected Publications:

Price, G. N. (2000). The idea of the historically Black university. Negro Educational Review,
51(3), 99-113.

Agesa, J., Granger, M., & Price, G. N. (2000). Economics faculty research at teaching institutions: Are historically Black colleges different? Southern Economic Journal, 67(2), 427-447.

Price, G. N. (1998). Black colleges and universities: The road to Philistia? Negro Educational Review, 49, 9-21.

Agesa, J., Granger, M., & Price, G. N. (1998). Economics research at historically Black colleges and universities: Rankings and effects on the supply of Black economists. Review of Black Political Economy, 25(4), 41-55.


 

 
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