| "This book provides a roadmap of actions within individual faculty members’ control and sustenance for students, faculty, and administrators engaging in the struggle for racial justice in STEM education." - Science
The released book, Making Black Scientists: A Call to Action (Harvard University Press, 2019) explores ten innovative historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) that have produced an abundance of Black graduates in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. The book delves into the initiatives, practices, and policies that provide an environment that fosters STEM success for Black students at HBCUs and offers recommendations for HBCUs and other post-secondary institutions to emulate a similar milieu.
To commemorate the book's release, the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, and Justice (Proctor Institute) hosted a discussion and Q&A with the authors of Making Black Scientists, Marybeth Gasman, the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education and a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University, and Thai-Huy Nguyen, a Senior Research Associate at the Proctor Institute and Assistant Professor of Education at Seattle University.
You can get a copy of Making Black Scientists here.
About the Samuel D. Proctor Institute
The Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, and Justice (Proctor Institute) is a national center that focuses on issues of leadership, equity, and justice within the context of higher education. It brings together researchers, practitioners and community members to work toward the common goals of diversifying leadership, enhancing equity, and fostering justice for all. The Proctor Institute is located at Rutgers University—New Brunswick, in the Graduate School of Education and houses the Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSI). |
