Marie Fielder Center for Democracy, Leadership, and Education

Marie Fielder Center for Democracy, Leadership, and Education EQUITY, EDUCATION, AND JUSTICE The mission of the Marie Fielder Center for Democracy, Leadership, and Education is to encourage research that addresses today’s educational and social problems.

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Marie Fielder was the first African American woman with a doctorate to teach in the Bay Area and one of the first researchers to prove cultural bias in IQ tests.

Marie Fielder, 1970. PHOTO CREDIT: OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS OF ALAMEDA COUNTY

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The Fielder Center

Established in 2016, The Marie Fielder Center for Democracy, Leadership, and Education at Fielding Graduate University encourages new research and public discourse that advances social and ecological justice.

Through its work, the Center honors the legacy of its namesake, Dr. Marie Fielder, and her extraordinary life and accomplishments in education, social justice, and civic involvement. Since its launch, the Center has: • received ongoing National Science Foundation-funded grants to advance highereducation leadership focusing on diversity in science, engineering, and technology.

• appointed 15 Fielding doctoral students as Fielder Graduate Fellows and supported their work in developing a Congressional Black Caucus roundtable, researching voting practices, and publishing children’s books that teach empathy.

• honored three extraordinary academics who have distinguished their lives’ work in higher education, civic engagement, and social organizing.

But the Fielder Center is just getting started. This report offers a taste of what lies ahead.

Katrina S. Rogers, PhD President

Orlando L. Taylor, PhD Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Research

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Marie Fielder, PhD, was one of the most influential women in the history of California education. She achieved national prominence for her theories on how diverse cultures and groups relate to one another. In her 60-year career, Dr. Fielder was a teacher, social researcher, and consultant specializing in organizational development and school culture.

She was the first African-American woman with a doctorate to teach in the San Francisco Bay Area and one of the first researchers who documented cultural bias in IQ tests. She helped the Berkeley public schools become the first in the nation to desegregate through two-way busing – one of her proudest accomplishments.

In the 1960s and ‘70s, Dr. Fielder contributed to the work of such civil rights leaders as Martin Luther King Jr. and Whitney Young, and advised the US Department of Education, the Black Panther Party for Defense and Justice, and the National Organization for Women.

Dr. Fielder inspired generations of students at three universities where she held faculty appointments. She was a founding faculty member at Fielding, and served as the Chair of the Board of Trustees. Lenneal Henderson, Fielder Center Advisory Board

Marie Fielder, PhD

Co-Chair and Fielding faculty member, met Dr. Fielder at his high school.

“She had a profound effect on me,” he said. “She knew very well that education was essential in inspiring youth to become leaders for social justice and democracy.”

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Visiting faculty at the National Training Lab, 1967 (Marie Fielder, fourth from right).

PHOTO COURTESY OF NICOLA SMITH

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Fielder Fellows 15 Fielding doctoral students have been appointed Fielder Graduate Fellows, and pursued research projects that address social-justice concerns. Among them are...

Greg Williams, who presented his research on voter fraud claims and its impact on democracy, at the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology QualWorld virtual conference 2018.

Dawn Murphy, who turned her Fielder project on Folk Schools into a $100,000 federal grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service using community-based participatory research to explore how Folk Schools can contribute to economic development in vulnerable regions.

Susan Eddington, who hosted a Washington, DC, roundtable in conjunction with the Congressional Black Caucus, examining Media Representations of Black Women and their Influence on the Well-Being of Black Women and Girls.

Orlando Taylor, PhD, senior vice president of Strategic Initiatives and Research, and Katherine McGraw, PhD, director of Sponsored Programs and Special Projects, serve as mentors to the Fellows.

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Fellowship Means Credibility

Fellowship Means Inclusion

Fellowship Means Support

Greg Williams

Dawn Murphy

Susan Eddington

“My specific research areas and methodological

“Many doctoral students experience a feeling of

“Being a fellow has yielded the unanticipated benefit

approaches immediately earn legitimacy directly

isolation or outsider standing when entering into a

of being supported as I explore new possibilities with

because of my Fellowship status,” says Fielder Fellow

scholar-practitioner community,” says Fielder Fellow

my research,” says Fielder Fellow Susan Eddington,

Greg Williams, who is researching the way voter fraud

Dawn Murphy, who is doing research in Education.

who is doing research in Leadership. “I have found

claims impact Democracy. “Being able to identify

“The award of the Fielder Fellow appointment signaled

an encouraging community of other people who dare

myself with this designation means credibility.

inclusion for me. The title of Fielder Fellow bestowed

to dream, each working to make a difference in the

legitimacy not only to me, but also my research interest

world through their work.

“The opportunity to convene with a group of scholarly,

in the broader academic community. It also meant that

creative individuals and learn what they are doing

I had a ‘project’ and this project provided and provides

“By adhering to the legacy of Dr. Marie Fielder and

to promote their works, etc., is both inspiring and

a means of contextualizing and integrating my learning

her commitment to fearlessly lead the charge for

practical. The Fielder Center helps Fellows find funds

as I move from PhD student to PhD.

social justice, the Fielder Center can nurture and

if presenting their research overseas would be

support future scholars driven by their intention to

financially burdensome. Not only does this help the

“What brought me to Fielding was not the promise and

bring about more equity, fairness, and justice for all

individual Fellow, but it also increases the research

potential of study, but the belief in the profound social

people as we strive to create a more inclusive society

exposure for democratically important issues.”

impact of scholarly practice,” she continues. “The Marie

that embraces its diversity.”

Fielder Fellow program delivered on this belief and Fielding philosophy in a way not otherwise available.”

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The 2019 Fielder Fellow Cohort

Luis Ellis

Linda Harris

L.E. Johnson II

Program: EdD

Program: EdD

Program: EdD

Educational Leadership for Change

Educational Leadership for Change

Educational Leadership for Change

Theresa Southam

Yvette Strickling

Deborah Johnson

Program: PhD

Program: EdD

Program: EdD

Organizational Development and Change

Educational Leadership for Change

Educational Leadership for Change

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Marie Fielder Medal recipients...

Marie Fielder Medal

for Social Transformation

2016 – Dr. Walter Bumphus, president and CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), whose career achievements strengthened a vital part of America’s higher educational system — the community college — and will be felt for generations to come.

2017 – Dr. Gary Orfield, professor, UCLA Graduate School of Education and co-director, The Civil Rights Project at UCLA, whose life work has been the development and implementation of social policy, with a central focus on the impact of policy on equal opportunity for success in American society. [Dr. Orfield pictured with Fielding President Katrina Rogers, left, and Nicola Smith, JD, Fielding faculty

The Fielder Center awards

member and daughter of Marie Fielder.]

the annual Marie Fielder Medal for Social Transformation to national crusaders for social justice.

2018 – Dr. Patricia Gurin, Nancy Cantor Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Psychology and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, who created the model for Inter-Group Relations Programs used nationally and internationally. Both personally and professionally, her life has been devoted to social justice.

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Partnerships The Marie Fielder Center partners with the University of the Virgin Islands on various projects, including UVI’s doctoral program in Creative Leadership, through which students enroll in the Fielding certificate in Organizational Development and Leadership (ODL). UVI faculty also collaborate with Fielding’s Sustainability Work Group to examine issues of ecological and social justice.

The Center has also partnered with UVI, North Carolina A & T State University, and the Association of American Colleges and Universities to form the Center for the Advancement of STEM Leadership, to broaden the participation of diverse populations in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math.

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Kettering Foundation

National Science Foundation

$10,000 award to produce an in-depth essay on racial and ethnic

Five awards totaling over $4.6 million for conducting and distributing

tensions in the country through various media lenses and scholarly

research on the role of leadership at Historically Black Colleges and

theories and to propose new models that communities might explore to

Universities (HBCUs) in advancing diversity in STEM fields, and using

mitigate them.

that research to develop new leaders; and for providing academic leadership training with STEM Women Faculty in Tribal Colleges and the Society of STEM Women of Color.

Monograph In 2019, the Fielder Center will publish a monograph on the life and legacy of Marie Fielder. Edited by Fielding faculty members, this volume will introduce Dr. Fielder and her important role in civil rights and social justice to contemporary audiences.

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Mission To encourage new research that addresses today’s educational and social problems.

Values All work within the Marie Fielder Center promotes Dr. Fielder’s principles of transformational change for social justice as exemplified through her life’s work, her philosophy, and her contributions to equity, education, and justice.

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Advisory Council Lenneal Henderson, PhD, Co-Chair Claudia Mitchell-Kernan, PhD, Co-Chair Nicola Smith, JD, Ex-Officio Member Orlando L. Taylor, PhD, Ex-Officio Member Katrina S. Rogers, PhD, Ex-Officio Member Richard Appelbaum, PhD Patricia Arredondo, EdD Stacy Blake-Beard, PhD Robert Corrigan, PhD Anna DiStefano, EdD Placida Gallegos, PhD Anthony Greene, PhD Carlos Grijalva, PhD Kelly Mack, PhD Camille McKayle, PhD Margo Okazawa-Rey, PhD Carlos Santiago, PhD

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Thank you, supporters! The Center needs $50,000 each year for its operations. We could not continue our work without your generous philanthropic partnership with us.

Listed on these pages are the contributors to the Fielder Visiting Scholar Endowment and supporters of the Marie Fielder Center as of March 1, 2019.

Dorothy Agger-Gupta, PhD,

David Edelman, MBA, and Katherine Edelman

Sharon Hawley , PhD

Kathleen Edwards, PhD, and George Edwards

Leonard Haynes, PhD

Keith Alward, PhD

Jennifer Edwards, PhD

Lenneal Henderson, PhD,

Julie Anding, PhD, and Lisa Kornetsky

Jo Ellen Eng, PhD

Patricia Arredondo, EdD

Patricia Evans, PhD

Mary Henderson, EdD

Suzanne Baer, PhD

Kevin Fickenscher, MD,

Ruth Hochberg, PhD

and Niels Agger-Gupta, PhD

Christian Batista, MA

and Suzanne Olbricht, MD

and Joyce Henderson

Hallock Hoffman*

Rodney Beaulieu, PhD, and Kat Beaulie

Marilyn Freimuth, PhD

Jerri Lynn Hogg, PhD, and Adrian Hogg

John Bennett, PhD, and Eric T. Johnson

Donna Wickham Furth

Daniel Holland, PhD,

Karen Bogart, PhD, and Zac Bogart

Greta and Luis Smith Garcia

Alma Boutin-Martinez, PhD

Russell Goodman, MBA, and Donna Goodman

Richard and Margo Hunter

Judy Boykin-McCarthy, EdD

Frances Goodrow

Natalie Hurst and Daniel Braden

Brico Fund

Sue Gordon, PhD

Szabi Ishtai-Zee, PhD

Juanita Brown, PhD, and David Isaacs

Laura Gray, MA

Thelma Jackson, EdD

Karin Bunnell, PhD, and Anthony Bettencourt

Sherrie Green, PhD

Kristine Jacquin, PhD

Christine Clark, MA

Nancy Greenspan

Stuart and Tracy Jenkins

Argentine S. Craig, PhD

Toni Gregory, EdD*

Harriett G. Jenkins, EdD

Glory Dierker, PhD, and Bob Dierker

Carlos Grijalva, PhD

Pamela Johnson

Anna DiStefano, EdD, and Deborah Karoff

Harley-Davidson Foundation, Inc.

Kerul Kassel, PhD

Barbara Divver and Ted Reff

Miranda Haskie, EdD

Judith Katz, EdD, and David Levine

Keith Earley, PhD

Stanley and Betty Hatch

Kellogg (W.K). Foundation

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and Deidra Susan Holland, MD

Robert E. Kinsinger, EdD*

Alison and Richard Mitchell

Frank L. Smith*

Zieva Konvisser, PhD, and Marc W. Konvisser

Jerrold A. Moore and Marianne Locke

Richard and Nancy Smith

Anne Kratz and John LaPuma

Eileen Morgan, PhD

Stephen and Carla Smith

Judith Kuipers, PhD

Lynn Newman, EdD, and Andrew Newman

Nicola Smith, JD

Tomรกs Leal, Jr.

Jerry P. Nims, PhD*

Monique Snowden, PhD

Barbara Leary

Patricia Oelrich, PhD

Judith Stevens-Long, PhD,

Otto Lee, EdD

Beverly Palley, EdD

Lisa Lewis, MBA

Marilyn D. Parker, PhD, and Leonard Brooks

Charlease T. Stevenson, PhD

Nancy Lippe, EdD

Wayne Patterson, PhD

Eugene H. Stivers, PhD

Marianne Locke, EdD, and Jerrold Moore

Kay Payne

Donna F. Stonich

Sarah MacDougall, EdD

Nolan Penn, PhD, and Barbara Penn

Ronald and Ann Stratten

Kelly Mack

Georgia A. Persons, PhD

John and Jane Stromberg

William Maehl, PhD, and Audrey Maehl

Gerald Porter, PhD*

Ted Takamura, PhD, and Raynette Yoshida

Patricia Marin, PhD

Marilyn Price-Mitchell, PhD

Orlando Taylor, PhD

John Mateja

Kathleen Randolph, PhD, and John Randolph

Tojo Thatchenkery, PhD

Theresa Mattison, EdD

Sue Reamer, PhD

Gine Thomes-Cotter, EdD

Larraine Matusak, PhD

Margery Regalado-Rodriguez, EdD

Kathy Tiner, PhD

Mary Maxwell, EdD

John Robinson, EdD

Nancy and Sidney Unobskey

Charles McClintock, PhD, and Carol Wilburn

Harriett Robles, EdD, and Felix Robles

Gregory Walsh, EdD

Monica McClintock

Katrina S. Rogers, PhD,

Alan Yurman

Sara Miller McCune

and William A. Cherry, PhD

Katherine McGraw, PhD

Patsy H. Sampson, PhD*

Irene McHenry, PhD

Steven Schapiro, EdD,

Pat McKeldin and Gorman Ortiz Barbara Mink, EdD

and Larry Severance

and Placida Gallegos, PhD Kim Seashore

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