September Tuesdays Together National Speaker Series Conversation
The North Carolina Central University School of Education's Higher Education Administration Graduate Program invites you to the September 2024 Tuesdays Together National Speaker Series conversation with Dr. Shaun R. Harper, one of the nation’s most highly respected racial equity experts. He is a provost professor in the University of Southern California (USC) Rossier School of Education and the USC Marshall School of Business.
In 2022, he was appointed University Professor, a distinction bestowed only to 27 of 4,700 USC full-time faculty. Dr. Harper also is the Clifford and Betty Allen Chair in Urban Leadership and founder and executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center. He served as the 2020–2021 American Educational Research Association president and the 2016–2017 Association for the Study of Higher Education president. Additionally, he was inducted into the National Academy of Education in 2021 and appointed by U.S. President Joe Biden to the National Board for Education Sciences in 2022. The conversation is scheduled for Tuesday, September 10, 2024, from 12 to 1 p.m. via Zoom.
Dr. Harper’s research focuses primarily on race, gender, and other dimensions of equity in an array of organizational contexts, including K-12 schools, colleges and universities, and corporations. He has published 12 books and over 100 other academic publications. Review of Research in Education, Teachers College Record, Harvard Educational Review, American Journal of Education, Journal of Higher Education, and Review of Higher Education are some journals in which he has published. His research has been cited in more than 23,000 published studies across a vast array of academic fields and disciplines. Atlantic Philanthropies and the Bill & Melinda Gates, Lumina, Ford, Kellogg, ECMC, College Futures, Kresge, Sloan, and Open Society Foundations have awarded him nearly $22.2 million in grants. His center has also procured more than $18.5 million in contracts.
The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Chronicle of Higher Education, and hundreds of other news outlets have quoted Professor Harper and featured his research. He has interviewed on CNN, MSNBC, ESPN, and NPR. He also has testified twice to the United States House of Representatives and spoken at numerous White House convenings. Dr. Harper served on President Barack Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper Advisory Council; on the national education policy committee for the Biden-Harris Campaign; and on California Governor Gavin Newsom’s statewide task force on higher education, racial equity, and COVID-19 recovery. More than 3 million people have read op-eds and essays he has published in the Washington Post, Forbes, Rolling Stone, Los Angeles Times, Education Week, Inside Higher Ed, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.
The recipient of dozens of top awards in his field and five honorary degrees, Professor Harper has been repeatedly recognized in Education Week as one of the 10 most influential scholars in the field of education; he was ranked #4 in 2023. He earned his bachelor’s degree in education from Albany State, a historically Black university in Georgia, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from Indiana University.
The conversation will be moderated by Dr. Tryan L. McMickens, Associate Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Higher Education Administration Graduate Program at North Carolina Central University. This conversation will be co-sponsored by the Dr. Melvin C. Terrell Educational Foundation, Inc.
Meeting ID: 896 5812 7845
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