2017 Black Male Research BootCamp

2017

Contact List: SOTA RBC Chairs: Dr. Tamara Bertrand Jones Dr. Devona Foster Pierre Jesse Ford Jenay Sermon

(850) 322-9531 (504) 430-5503 (843) 731-2371 (470) 249-5119

FSU Important Numbers: (850) 644-1234 FSU Police Department (850) 644-HELP (4357) IT Help Desk

About SOTA............................................................3 College of Education Dean’s Welcome Letter.........4 SOTA President’s Welcome Letter..........................5 Schedule of Events/ Writing & Meeting Rooms......6 Senior Scholar Mentor..........................................10 Workshop Presenters Bios....................................11 Guest Speaker......................................................13 Panelist.................................................................14 Participant Directory..............................................16 Special Thanks.....................................................18

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SISTERS OF THE ACADEMY

ABOUT:

Founded in 2001, the mission of Sisters of the Academy (SOTA) Institute is to facilitate the success of Black women in the Academy. Specifically, the organization aims to create an educational network of Black women in higher education in order to foster success in the areas of teaching, scholarly inquiry, and service to the community; facilitate collaborative scholarship among Black women in higher education; and facilitate the development of relationships to enhance members’ professional development.

SIGNATURE EVENTS: THE RESEARCH BOOTCAMP

The biennial Research BootCamp® is an intense, one-week program designed to help doctoral students and junior scholars develop sound research projects. Senior Scholars as statisticians, methodologists, and theorists facilitate workshops intended to help doctoral students conceptualize and design components of their dissertations (i.e, formulating research questions or hypotheses, developing literature review, selecting instrumentation, designing methodology, and completing data analysis).The Senior Scholars also assist junior scholars in the development of manuscripts for publication and advisement for tenure and promotion. In addition to the research component, every participant is encouraged to cultivate a mentoring relationship.

THE WRITING RETREAT

The Writing Retreat features Writing Circles of 3-5 participants based on research topics and writing goals. Within these group Writing Circles, participants are assigned a Writing Coach or a Facilitator. Writing Coaches provide participants with accountability for their specific writing goals. Writing Facilitators, experts in research, writing, and/or publication, provide individual and on-going advice and feedback to Writing Circle participants prior to and during the Writing Retreat. The Writing Circles and their Facilitators meet face-to-face for three days of writing and professional development.

THE INTENSIVE GRANTSMANSHIP WORKSHOP

This intensive three-day training includes workshops, panel discussions, plaenary sessions, and paired mentoring aimed at assisting particpants in acquiring knowledge and skills relevent to: (1) fundamentals associated with securing research funding to include such topics as proposal development, collobarative partnerships and sthe submission process; (2) key federal and private mechanisms of research support; (3) funding opportunities to engage in collaboraive, international research; and (4) establishing a fundable research trajectory. Participants also have the opportunity to meet one-on-one with representative from various funding agencies.

RESULTS BASED ACCOUNTABILITY

Results Based Accountability (RBA) is a framework that offers a disciplined way of thinking and taking action that communities can use to improve the conditions of well-being for children, youth, families, and communities (population accountability), and leaders can use to improve the quality and effectiveness of service systems, agencies, and programs (performance accountability).“ The RBA framework can be used to teach students, and human service and other professionals to improve professional practice. Whether used to redesign current undergraduate or graduate courses delivered to human service and education professionals, or to design/redesign existing programs, RBA presents a useful framework for program management and improvement for SOTA members.

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Sisters of the Academy “scholarship through collaboration”

Greetings Participants, Guests, and Friends: Welcome and many thanks for attending and supporting the first ever, Black Male Sisters of the Academy (SOTA) Institute Research BootCamp© (RBC)! It is wonderful to be in Tallahassee, Florida on the campus of Florida State University (FSU) to offer this first-time event. Your presence here lets us know that you are committed to your growth as an academician and that you believe in what SOTA does and can offer you.

Founded in 2001, SOTA aims to create an educational network of Black women in higher education in order to foster success in the areas of teaching, scholarly inquiry, and service to the community; to facilitate collaborative scholarship among Black women in higher education; and to facilitate the development of relationships that will enhance members’ professional development.

SOTA is an organization of intelligent, inspiring, devoted, and trailblazing women. From its early conception of a small gathering of women at Florida State University, the organization has grown exponentially and internationally. The RBC fulfills our mission to support women and now men of color in the academy—both individually and collectively in meeting their goals. SOTA’s RBC has helped prepare junior scholars to meet tenure requirements and doctoral students complete dissertation research. I joined SOTA in 2003 at a SOTA information session at the National Black Graduate Student Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Since joining the organization, I have accomplished much, SOTA has provided collaboration opportunities and other professional development that have contributed to my success in higher education.

We are delighted to have assembled an amazing panel of Senior Scholar Mentors to work with you. Make sure you are ready to hit the ground running this week. This will be an intensive week of workshops, seminars, and sessions that will certainly advance everyone’s work in a positive manner.

We also appreciate our volunteers, sponsors, and supporters.

Finally, I would like to extend my sincere appreciation to the 2017 Black Male Research BootCamp© Planning Committee Chairs, Tamara Bertrand Jones and Devona Foster Pierre, the SOTA Leadership Team, and the FSU College of Education administration, faculty, staff, and students for making this event come to fruition.

Sincerely,

Kaye Thompson-Rogers, PhD

P.O. Box 3064452 • Tallahassee, FL 32306-4452 Email: membership@sotainstitute.org Website: www.sistersoftheacademy.org 5 | 2017 RESEARCH BOOTCAMP

Senior Scholar Mentor Meeting & Orientation Location: STB 1209

6/4/2017

SUNDAY SUNDAY Level 1 Scholars Level 2 Scholars All Scholars

6/5/2017

Orientation and Opening Dinner

Location: STB Cyber Lounge

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

- Nelson Mandela

8:00am - 8:25am Breakfast

Location: STB Cyber Lounge

8:30am - 10:00am Committee Meeting

MONDAY

6:00pm - 7:30pm

4:00pm - 5:45am

Presenter: Senior Scholar Mentor Location: STB G103

10:15am - 12:45pm Meeting with Senior Scholar Mentor Location: STB G103

1:00pm - 2:00pm Networking Lunch

Location: Fresh Food

2:15pm - 3:45pm Approaching the Dissertation Proposal

Presenters: Dr. Devona Foster Pierre Location: STB G151

Writing Your Research Results

Presenter: Dr. Tamara Bertrand Jones Location: STB G154

3:45pm - 5:15pm Meet with Senior Scholar Mentor/ Planning See Writing & Meeting Room Schedule

Writing Rooms Time

Location

2:00pm - 5:30pm

STB 1203

2:00pm - 5:30pm

STB G103

2:00pm - 5:30pm

STB G154

Senior Scholar Mentor Meeting Room 2:00pm - 5:30pm

STB 1204C

*** Times indicate room availability***

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6/6/2017

TUESDAY

8:00am - 8:25am Breakfast

Location: STB Cyber Lounge

Level 2 Scholars All Scholars

Networking Lunch

Location: Fresh Food

8:15am--10:00am 10:15am 8:30am Developing Research Questions & Conducting a Review of the Literature

Presenter: Dr. Tamara Bertrand Jones Location: STB G103

1:45pm - 3:45pm Quantitative Research Methods Refresher Presenter: Dr. Sandra Harris Location: STB 3301

Meeting with Senior Scholar Mentor or Writing

See Writing & Meeting Room Schedule

10:00am - 10:10am

4:00pm - 6:00pm Meeting with Senior Scholar Mentor or Writing

See Writing & Meeting Room Schedule

Break

Location: STB Cyber Lounge

10:15am - 12:15pm Qualitative Research Design Overview

Presenter: Dr. La’Tara Osborne-Lampkin Location: STB G330

Level 1 Scholars

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

- Malcolm X

6:00pm - 7:00pm Evening Reception Speaker: Dr. Juan Gilbert University of Florida Location: FSU Alumni Center

Rendina Room

Writing Rooms Time

Location

8:30am - 10:00am

STB G152

4:00pm - 5:45pm

STB 3203

4:00pm - 5:45pm

STB 3301

Senior Scholar Mentor Meeting Room 8:30am - 10:00am

STB 1204C

4:00pm - 5:45pm

STB 1204C

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6/7/2017

WEDNESDAY

8:00am - 8:25am Breakfast

Location: STB Cyber Lounge

8:30am - 12:00pm Data Analysis Consultation/ Writing

Presenter: Dr. La’Tara Osborne-Lampkin Location: G150

1:15pm - 2:45pm Writing Workshop

Presenter: Janelle JenningsAlexander Location: STB 1210A

2:45pm - 3:30pm Break

Location: STB Cyber Lounge

Presenter: Dr. Sandra Harris Location: G152

12:00pm - 1:00pm

3:30pm - 5:30pm Meet with Senior Scholar Mentor or Writing

See Writing & Meeting Room Schedule

Networking Lunch: Funding Your Graduate Studies

Presenter: Dr. Adrienne Stephenson Location: COE Dean’s Conference Room

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Writing Rooms

Level 1 Scholars Level 2 Scholars All Scholars

Time

Location

8:30am - 12:00pm

STB 1203

8:30am - 12:00pm

STB G103

2:45pm - 5:30pm

STB 1210A

Senior Scholar Mentor Meeting Room 8:30am - 12:00pm

STB 1204C

2:45pm - 5:30pm

STB 1204C

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6/8/2017

THURSDAY

1:30pm - 5:00pm

8:00am - 8:25am Breakfast

Location: STB Cyber Lounge

Meet with Senior Scholar Mentor or Writing

See Writing & Meeting Room Schedule

8:30am - 10:00am Finishing Your Dissertation/ Completion of the Work Plan

Presenter: Dr. Tamara Bertrand Jones Location: STB G150

5:30pm - 6:00pm Mentoring Session

Presenter: Dr. E. Newton Jackson, Jr. Location: STB G103

10:00am - 10:10am Break

Location: STB Cyber Lounge

10:15am - 11:45am

6:00pm - 7:00pm Beyond the BootCamp: Career Tradjectories & Success in the Academy Panel Location: STB G103

Meet with Senior Scholar Mentor or Writing

See Writing & Meeting Room Schedule

Level 1 Scholars Level 2 Scholars

6/9/2017

FRIDAY

All Scholars

12:00pm - 1:15pm Networking Lunch

Location: Fresh Foods

Writing Rooms Time

Location

8:30am - 12:00pm

STB 1203

8:30am - 12:00pm

STB G103

1:30pm - 5:00pm

STB 3203

1:30pm - 5:00pm

STB 3209

Senior Scholar Mentor Meeting Room

8:00am - 8:25am Breakfast

Location: STB Cyber Lounge

8:30am - 10:30am Presentation of Research

Presenter: All Senior Scholars Location: STB G103

10:30am - 12:45pm

8:30am - 12:00pm

STB 1204C

1:30pm - 5:00pm

STB 1204C

12:45pm - 1:45pm Networking Lunch

Location: STB Cyber Lounge

2:00pm - 3:30pm Debriefing the BootCamp Location: STB G150

Debriefing the BootCamp Location: STB G151

Publishing Your Research Presenter: Dr. Adriel Hilton Location: STB G103

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BIO

SENIOR SCHOLAR MENTOR Dr. Adriel A. Hilton is director of the Webster University Myrtle Beach Metropolitan Extended Campus. As the chief administrative officer, he is charged with implementing programs and policies to achieve Webster University’s overall goals and objectives at the extended campus.

Dr. Hilton’s most recent positions include chief of staff and executive assistant to the president at Grambling State University and assistant professor and director of the Higher Education Student Affairs program at Western Carolina University.

Dr. Hilton was the inaugural assistant vice president for inclusion initiatives at Grand Valley State University. He honed his expertise in higher education administration and teaching at Upper Iowa University (UIU) as executive assistant to the president and assistant secretary to the board of trustees. He was the school’s first chief diversity officer and an adjunct chief diversity officer and an adjunct faculty member at both UIU and the University of Northern Iowa.

Dr. Hilton is a noted scholar. He was selected as a Frederick Douglass Teaching Scholar at Clarion University of Pennsylvania where he taught and developed academic programs within the Office of the Provost. Previously, he also served as the first public policy fellow at the Greater Baltimore Committee, a leading regional organization comprised of civic and business leaders, where he worked closely with advisors to research, develop, and advocate a public policy agenda to advance the organization’s work in various areas, including access to health care.

Dr. Hilton is a prolific author and researcher. His research is published in refereed journals, such as Teachers College Record, Journal of College Student Development, Community College Review, Community College Journal of Research and Practice, Journal of Applied Research in the Community College, and the Journal of the Professoriate. His numerous service commitments include membership on the editorial boards of the renowned Journal of Negro Education and the highly acclaimed College Student Affairs Journal.

Dr. Hilton holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in finance from Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia; a Master of Applied Social Science degree, with a concentration in public administration from Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida; and a Ph.D. in higher education, with a concentration in administration, from Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland.

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WORKSHOP PRESENTERS BIO

Dr. Tamara Bertrand Jones is an Associate Professor of Higher Education at Florida State University. Her research examines the sociocultural contexts that influence the graduate education and professional experiences of underrepresented populations, particularly Black women, in academia. Her previous work as an administrator and program evaluator also influence other research interests in culturally responsive assessment and evaluation. She is a founder and past president of Sisters of the Academy Institute, an international organization that promotes collaborative scholarship and networking among Black women in the academy. She collaborated with fellow scholars to write Pathways to Higher Education for African American Women (Stylus Publishing) and Cultivating Leader Identity and Capacity in Students from Diverse Backgrounds (Jossey-Bass). She completed a Doctor of Philosophy in Research and Evaluation Methods from FSU. She also holds a master’s degree in Higher Education from FSU and a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin.

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Dr. Sandra M. Harris is the Director of Assessment for the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Walden University. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Educational Psychology as well as a Master’s of Education in School Psychometry from Auburn University in Alabama. She obtained Master of Arts and Bachelor Arts Degrees in General/Experimental Psychology from California State University. Her professional background includes 20 years of active duty service in the United States Air Force. During those 20 years she gained experience avionics communication, aircraft maintenance, leadership, management, supervision, supply functions, and career counseling. She In terms of education, she gained experience in curriculum design and development, lesson plan development and preparation, test construction, and formalized classroom instruction. She served as manager of distance education programs, manager for a paper-based career development career development courses, as well as manager of developing interactive, computer, delivered instructional media. Dr. Harris has 27 years of experience in working with adult learners. She has 28 years of experience in teaching in higher education. Her experience includes developing and delivering instruction in the online learning environment. Her experience in mentoring is extensive. She has served as chair, committee member, university reviewer, or consultant to over 100 completed theses and dissertations. Dr. Harris was recently awarded the Walden University Faculty Excellence Award for her effort and dedication in mentoring graduate students. Dr. Harris also has a solid research background.

She has 20 scholarly publications in peer reviewed journals and over 80 presentations at local, regional, and national level conferences. She has engaged in other scholarly activities such as proposal reviewer, session moderator, textbook reviewer, and editor.

Janelle Jennings-Alexander is Ph.D. candidate at Florida State University. Her research critically examines whiteness within the context of late 20tth and early 21st century African American literature and seeks to explore the role an antiracist pedagogy might play in transforming modern race relations and in recruiting social justice allies. Her teaching explores the intersection of race, rhetoric and composition in the literature classroom.

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Dr. La’Tara Osborne-Lampkin is an Associate in Research at Florida State University (FSU), and former Assistant Professor of Educational Policy and Leadership at the University of North Florida. She examines diversity in higher education institutions, with a particular focus on diversity policies and practices designed and implemented to increase the recruitment, retention, and development of minority faculty and students. She has maintained an on-going commitment to graduate student development which is evidenced in her continued efforts to engage students in the research process (i.e., training and supervision of junior research scholars) and her scholarly work in the area (i.e., series of publications on the recruitment, development and retention of students and faculty). As a policy and research scholar, Dr. Osborne-Lampkin is also engaged in large-scale, federally funded research projects that focus on accountability policies and reform efforts research projects that focus on accountability policies and reform efforts aimed to increase educational outcomes for traditionally underperforming student populations and students in low-performing K-12 schools, with a recent focus on principal related reform efforts. She currently serves as the principal investigator and co-principal investigator on multiple leadership and policy studies and technical support projects funded by the Institute of Educational Sciences (IES). In her role at the REL-Southeast, Dr. Osborne-Lampkin is also the lead researcher for the North Carolina Leadership and Blended On-line Learning Research Alliances and the REL-Southeast representative on the Educator Effectiveness and Rural Education Cross-REL working groups. She has developed and implemented systems for securing, managing, coding, and analyzing data for large-scale qualitative and mixed methods research projects, including those funded by IES and the Spencer Foundation. Dr. Osborne-Lampkin also uses her research expertise and experience in building collaborative partnerships to build the capacity of state and local educational stakeholders to plan and conduct rigorous research.

Dr. Devona Foster Pierre serves in the Office of Diversity, Inclusion & Equal Opportunity at the University of South Florida. Dr. Pierre earned her Doctorate of Education in Administration of Higher Education and Master of Education in Adult Education from Auburn University in Alabama. She is also a proud alumna of Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Pierre has served as the Coordinator for Office Operations for Sisters of the Academy Institute (SOTA), worked as an administrator in higher education and taught courses in higher education administration. She has also presented at several national and international conferences. Her research interest include the exploration of the recruitment, retention, persistence, and advancement of minorities and marginalized populations in post-secondary institutions and perception of campus climate for minorities and marginalized populations.

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Dr. Adrienne Stephenson serves as Assistant Dean of The Graduate School and Director of the Office of Fellowships and Awards. She received her B.A. in Chemistry from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and a MS and PhD in Pharmacology and Toxicology from Florida A&M University. Prior to working at Florida State University, Dr. Stephenson served as a STEM Center Director at Tallahassee Community College (TCC) where she managed the NSF FAMU-TCC Bridges to the Baccalaureate in the Biomedical Sciences, FGLSAMP and NSF STEM Star Scholars Programs. She also served as a Science Specialist/STEM Coordinator at the Florida Department of Education for several years in the Bureau of Curriculum and Instruction and the Bureau of School Improvement. She is passionate about inspiring, mentoring, and challenging the next generation of leaders. Her research interests include: education, access, equity, marginalization and disparities. Adrienne describes her “why” by the anonymous quote, “You have been given this mountain to show others it can be moved.”

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GUEST SPEAKER BIO

Dr. Juan E. Gilbert is The Banks Preeminence Chair in Human-Centered Computing and Chair of the Computer & Information Science & Engineering Department at the University of Florida where he leads the Human Experience Research Lab. Dr. Gilbert has research projects in spoken language systems, advanced learning technologies, usability and accessibility, Ethnocomputing (Culturally Relevant Computing) and databases/data mining. He has published more than 180 articles, given more than 250 talks and obtained more than $25 million dollars in research funding. He is a Fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of Science and a member of the National Academy of Inventors. In 2012, Dr. Gilbert received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring from President Barack Obama.

He also received the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2014 Mentor Award. He was recently named one of the 50 most important African-Americans in Technology. He was also named a 2015-2106 AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassador, Speech Technology Luminary by Speech Technology Magazine and a national role model by Minority Access Inc. Dr. Gilbert is also a National Associate of the National Research Council of the National Academies, an ACM Distinguished Scientist and a Senior Member of the IEEE. Dr. Gilbert was named a Master of Innovation by Black Enterprise Magazine, a Modern-Day Technology Leader by the Black Engineer of the Year Award Conference, the Pioneer of the Year by the National Society of Black Engineers and he received the Black Data Processing Association (BDPA) Epsilon Award for Outstanding Technical Contribution. In 2002, Dr. Gilbert was named one of the nation’s top African-American Scholars by Diverse Issues in Higher Education. In 2013, the Black Graduate and Professional Student Association at Auburn University named their Distinguished Lecture Series in honor of Dr. Gilbert. Dr. Gilbert testified before the Congress on the Bipartisan Electronic Voting Reform Act of 2008 for his innovative work in electronic voting. In 2006, Dr. Gilbert was honored with a mural painting in New York City by City Year New York, a non-profit organization that unites a diverse group of 17 to 24 year-old young people for a year of full-time, rigorous community service, leadership development, and civic engagement.

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PANELISTS

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Dr. Antonio C. Cuyler has consistently demonstrated a commitment to teaching, research, and service as an educator. His passion for providing students with experiential learning inspired him to develop a service-learning program that has placed 73 graduate students who have served 2,394 hours with 30 different cultural organizations in and beyond Tallahassee, FL. His students have also interned and worked for renowned cultural organizations such as the Joffrey Ballet, Kennedy Center, National Repertory Orchestra, North Carolina School of the Arts, Rebuild Foundation, Smithsonian Institute, and Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, among others.In his research, Dr. Cuyler explores questions central to developing knowledge on arts administration education and social justice in cultural policy. His scholarship has appeared in the American Journal of Arts Management, ENCACT Journal of Cultural Management and Policy, GIA Reader, Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, International Journal of Arts Management, and Music Entertainment and Industry Educators Association Journal. He has also presented research in Australia, Canada, Italy, Korea, Portugal, Spain, and across the U. S. Dr. Cuyler remains active in Tallahassee through his public service to the community. For two years he served on the Cultural Plan Advisory Committee (CPAC), which oversaw implementation of the 2014 Capital Area Cultural Plan. He currently serves on the board of Tallahassee Youth Orchestras (TYO), and has reviewed grants for the U. S. Department of Education, Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, Council on Culture & Arts (COCA), and the Arts Council of Fairfax County. Dr. Cuyler is a member of the Association of Arts Administration Educators (AAAE) and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). He joined the faculty at Florida State University (FSU) in the Fall of 2012. Before returning to his alma mater, he held positions at SUNY Purchase College, American University, and Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD).

Dr. Lamar Garnes is an Assistant Professor of English at Florida A&M University.

His essay, “Oral Pleasures: Orality as Liberation for History’s Sexual Binds in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora,” appeared in The Griot, “From Migrants’ Son to Hustler in Claude Brown’s Manchild in the Promised Land” appeared in The College Language Association Journal, and his short story, “End Credits,” appeared in, Black Gay Genius: Answering Joseph Beam’s Call.

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Dr. E. Newton Jackson, Jr., (a native of Washington, DC) is a tenured, Full Professor in the College of Education and Human Services (COEHS) at The University of North Florida (UNF). Prior to spring 2014, he served as the Associate Provost and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, in the Office of Academic Affairs at UNF. He is a seasoned and successful administrator with over 35 years of hands-on experience in higher education, including university administration, classroom instruction, service and research. He is considered an energetic, self-motivated and goal-oriented leader with strong time management skills. Dr. Jackson is considered professionally and thoroughly knowledgeable in academic affairs, accreditation, student services, athletics, compliance & certification, logistical planning, budget management, facility and project management.

Prior to his appointment in Academic Affairs, he served UNF as a Professor and Department Chairperson for the Leadership, School Counseling and Sport Management unit within the College of Education and Human Services (COEHS). Dr. Jackson came to UNF from Tallahassee, Florida where he held various administrative appointments including Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Education at Florida A&M University (FAMU), and years earlier as a department chair and also the Interim Director of Athletics for the NCAA D-I member institution. While in Tallahassee, he previously served as Program Coordinator of the Sport Management program in the College of Education at The Florida State University (FSU) with 50 doctoral students, 150 master students, and over 350 undergraduates in the program. For nearly two decades, he held a variety of roles at Howard University in Washington, DC. Dr. Jackson is considered an authority in sport management. He has held graduate faculty appointments at four different universities (Howard University, FSU, FAMU and UNF). He has published his scholarship in a variety of journals within his field, including the International Journal of Sport Management, Sport Marketing Quarterly, Academic Athletic Journal, The Sport Journal, Quest, Strategies, International Journal of Sports Marketing & Sponsorship, Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, International Sports Journal, and also in The Western Journal of Black Studies, Journal of Research on Minority Affairs, and the Journal of African American Studies. Dr. Jackson holds a solid record of instruction at the undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral levels; he has supervised clinical experiences of sport management students; and has served on and chaired numerous master’s and doctoral committees (45+) at UNF, Florida State, Florida A&M, and Howard.

Dr. Jackson has been inducted as a “Research Fellow” in two (2) academic societies within his field. Dr. Jackson formerly worked as a special assistant to the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) President (Emeritus), Dr. LeRoy T. Walker. He has extensive experiences serving as a NCAA Division I Head Coach (Men & Women Swimming & Diving), NCAA Division I Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach, also as a Division II Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach. He has various college student affairs experiences along with “creating” a study abroad instruction and global education opportunity for The Florida State University “Global Sport Management Program” over a decade ago in London (United Kingdom) and Paris, France.

Dr. Demetriss Locke is the Assistant Director for the Office of Access and Opportunity under the Undergraduate Student Success Center at Florida A&M University. He began his career in higher education in 2001 at DeVry University in Atlanta, GA. He has experience working with students, faculty, and staff at forprofit institutions of higher education, predominately white institutions, community colleges, and at a Historically Black College/University (HBCU). Dr. Locke completed his doctoral degree in higher education administration from Auburn University in 2010. His current scholarly focus investigates how educational policies and practices affect the educational experiences of at-risk students, including the social organization of universities, instructional practices, student outcomes, and the distribution of educational opportunities.

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LEVEL 1 PARTICIPANTS

Clausell Mathis

Mark Akubo Major/Academic Discipline: Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction Current Institution: Florida State University

Current Institution: Florida State University Preferred Email: mathis.clausell@gmail.com

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Preferred Email: ma15d@my.fsu.com

Major/Academic Discipline: Ph.D., Science Education

Erdell Maurice Major/Academic Discipline: Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction Current Institution: Florida State University Preferred Email: erdellmfx2@gmail.com

Joshua Scriven Major/Academic Discipline: Ph.D., Political Science Current Institution: Florida State University Preferred Email: jscriven@fsu.edu

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LEVEL 2 PARTICIPANTS

Derrick Pollock

Major/Academic Discipline: Ph.D., Entrepreneurship and Strategy

Major/Academic Discipline: Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction

Current Institution: Florida State University

Current Institution: Florida State University

Preferred Email: rh13b@my.fsu.edu

Preferred Email: derricklpollock@gmail.com

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Reginald Harris

Omar Salaam Major/Academic Discipline: Ph.D., Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Current Institution: University of South Florida Preferred Email: omar.salaam@gmail.com

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SPECIAL THANKS College of Education Dean’s Office College of Education Office of Communication FSU Black Faculty & Staff Network Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Theresa Harrell Mary Peterson Dr. Robert Schwartz University of South Florida Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equal Opportunity