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The African American Professors Program (AAPP) at the University of South Carolina is proud to publish its fourteenth edition of this annual monograph series. AAPP recognizes the significance of offering its scholars a venue on which to engage actively in research and to publish their refereed papers. Parallel with the publication of their refereed manuscripts is the opportunity to gain visibility among scholars throughout institutions in national and international settings.

Scholars who have contributed papers for this monograph are acknowledged for embracing the value of including this responsibility within their academic milieu. Writing across disciplines adds to the intellectual diversity of these manuscripts. From neophytes to quite 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 under-representation 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, to allow for the dissemination of products of scholarship 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, a Program Officer for the Southern Education Foundation, and a Program Officer for the Arthur M. Blank Foundation in Atlanta, Georgia. She is currently a Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs Manager for IBM-International Business Machines in Atlanta, Georgia and has written the Foreword for the 2014 monograph.

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. I 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 continues its tradition as a promoter of scholarship in higher education as evidenced through the inspiration from this group of interdisciplinary manuscripts. As we embark on a new phase of development by initiating the renaming of our program, the Carolina Diversity Professors Program, we are grateful for your continued interest and support of the work of the scholars. In conclusion, I hope that you will envision these published papers as serving as an invaluable contribution to your own professional and career development.

John McFadden, Ph.D.

The Benjamin Elijah Mays Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Director, African American Professors Program

University of South Carolina

Publication Date

2015

Publisher

African American Professors Program, University of South Carolina

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

2015 AAPP Monograph Series: African American Professors Program

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