By Edward Shore Dr. Peniel Joseph, an accomplished scholar, teacher, and a leading public voice on race in the United States, holds a joint professorship appointment at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the History Department at the University of Texas-Austin. This past January, Dr. Joseph inaugurated the Center for the Study of Race […]
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The Institute for Community, University, and School Partnerships
Do academics bear a social responsibility? How can academic research promote positive change and advance social justice? What are the implications of community engagement for scholarship? These questions have shaped the life’s work of Kevin Michael Foster, an anthropologist of education and a faculty member at the Warfield Center for African and African-American Studies at […]
Corrupt The Youth
By Briana Toole The aim of Corrupt the Youth is to attract students from more diverse backgrounds to philosophy. Corrupt the Youth is a philosophy outreach program that brings philosophy to high school students attending under-resourced schools. In moving philosophy into the realm of the familiar, we hope to increase the number of students of […]
Danteworlds: Digital Humanities as Public Scholarship
By Guy Raffa Taking a new approach to guiding students, teachers, researchers, and general readers of Dante’s Divine Comedy, we built Danteworlds with integrated, multimedia content that allows users to proceed geographically as well as textually, not only canto by canto but also—as Dante and his guides do—region by region through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. […]
The Black Male Education Research Collection
By Edward Shore African American males contend with a number of institutional barriers to success in school. These challenges include disproportionate dropout rates, high rates of expulsion and suspension, and limited access to special education programs. African American women encounter similar obstacles. Yet a recent Journal of Blacks in Higher Education study revealed a worsening […]