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The African American Professors Program (AAPP) at the University of South Carolina is proud to publish the seventh edition of its annual monograph series. Furthermore, it is an honor to celebrate the remarkable tenth anniversary of AAPP through these manuscripts. The program recognizes the significance of offering its scholars a venue to engage actively in research and publish papers related thereto. Parallel with the publication of their refereed manuscripts is the opportunity to gain visibility among scholars throughout institutions worldwide.
Scholars who have contributed papers for this monograph are to be commended for adding this 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 doctoral students for disciplines in which African Americans currently are underrepresented among faculty in higher education.
The continuation of this monograph series is seen as responding to a window of opportunity to be sensitive to an academic expectation of graduates as they pursue career placement and, at the same time, one that allows for the dissemination of products to a broader community. The importance of this monograph series has been voiced by one of our 2002 AAPP graduates, Dr. Shundele LaTjuan Dogan, formerly an Administrative Fellow at Harvard University and a Program Officer for the Southern Education Foundation. She is currently a Program Officer for the Arthur M. Blank Foundation in Atlanta. Dr. Dogan wrote:
One thing in particular that I want to thank you for is having the African American Professors Program scholars publish articles for the monograph. have to admit that writing the articles seemed like extra work at the time. However, in my recent interview process, organizations have asked me for samples of my writing. Including an article from a published monograph helped to make my portfolio much more impressive. You were 'right on target' in having us do the monograph series. (AAPP 2003 Monograph, p. xi)
The African American Professors Program dedicates this 2007 tenth anniversary publication as a special contribution to its readership and hopes that each will be inspired by this interdisciplinary group of manuscripts.
John McFadden, Ph.D.
The Benjamin Elijah Mays Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Director, African American Professors Program
University of South Carolina
Publication Date
2007
Publisher
African American Professors Program
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; Deaner, Richard G.; Crews, Moody; Campbell, Dayna Anne; McClain, A. TaQuesa; Brown, Nancy E.; Mingo, Vida; Nelson, Toby L.; Pearson, Melissa B.; Randle, Lisa B.; Gardin, Fredrick A.; Mingo, Valarie A.; Nobles, Rex; Rawls, Anita M.; Smith, Alexanderia T.; Jones, Larry E. Jr.; and Bryan, Alvoy L. Jr., "2007 AAPP Monograph Series" (2007). Monograph Series. 10.
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/mcfadden_monographs/10