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The African American Professors Program (AAPP) at the University of South Carolina is pleased to produce the second edition of its annual monograph series. It is fitting that the program contrives to assume a leadership role in promoting scholarly products that prove to be useful in research endeavors by faculty and students in higher education.
Scholars who have contributed manuscripts for this monograph are to be commended for adding this additional responsibility to their academic workload. Writing across disciplines adds to the intellectual diversity of these papers. From neophytes, relatively speaking, to an array of very experienced individuals, the chapters have been researched and comprehensively written.
Founded in 1997 through the Department of Educational Leadership and Policies in the College of Education, AAPP was designed to address the underrepresentation of African American professors on college and university campuses. Its mission is to expand the pool of these professors in critical academic and research areas. Sponsored by the University of South Carolina, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the South Carolina General Assembly, the program recruits students with bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees for disciplines in which African Americans, currently, are underrepresented.
An important component of the program is the mentoring experience that is provided. Each student is assigned to a mentor professor who guides the student through a selected academic program and provides various learning experiences. When possible, the mentor serves as chair of the student's doctoral committee. The mentor, also, provides opportunities for the student to team teach, conduct research, and co-author publications. Students have opportunities to attend committee, faculty, and professional meetings, as well as to engage in a range of activities that characterize professional life in academia. Scholars enrolled in the program also are involved in programmatic and institutional workshops, independent research, and program development.
The continuation of this monograph series is seen as responding to an opportunity to be sensitive to an academic expectation of graduates as they pursue career placement and, also, one that allows for the dissemination of AAPP products to a broader community. We hope that you will read this monograph of the African American Professors Program with enthusiasm or enlightenment.
John McFadden, Ph.D.
The Benjamin Elijah Mays Professor
Director, African American Professors Program
University of South Carolina
Publication Date
2002
Publisher
African American Professors Program, University of South Carolina
City
Columbia, SC
Keywords
African American Professors Program, University of South Carolina
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© African American Professors Program, University of South Carolina
Disciplines
African American Studies | Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
Recommended Citation
McFadden, John; Carter, Terry; Johnson, Brian L.; Johnson, Christopher Leevy; Jackson, Joyce D.; Ware, Robert; Dunn, Tracy Harrell; Young, Vicky M.; Perkins, Phyllis J.; Dogan, Shuudelle LaTjuan; Gallant-Taylor, Dorinda J.; Duetsch, D. Samuel; Hargrove, Sirena C.; Henry, Maxine; and Davis, Monique E., "2002 AAPP Monograph Series: African American Professors Program" (2002). Monograph Series. 1.
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/mcfadden_monographs/1
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