Three-Fifths Magazine

Check out my latest piece in the March edition of?Three-Fifths Magazine, where I intentionally explore the current backlash against initiatives that have only helped make America a fairer place for everyone. I leave readers with this question: Why can’t our?differences?be the beauty we?embrace?in a way that?intricately?celebrates what truly makes the U.S., us?

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At #SXSWEDU last week, Provost Dr. Pamela E. Scott-Johnson, C’82, joined a powerful panel on building and broadening the Education R&D Enterprise. Highlighting how traditional education research often overlooks the needs of students, educators and communities, she emphasized the importance of diversifying research agendas and expanding access to R&D opportunities for all.

Coming This April We welcome Featured Special Guest Contributor, Marybeth Gasman. Marybeth Gasman?is the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education, a Distinguished Professor, and the Associate Dean for Research in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University.She also serves as the Executive Director of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity & Justice and the Executive Director of the Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions. Prior to joining the faculty at Rutgers, Marybeth was the Judy & Howard Berkowitz Marybeth Gasman is the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education, a Distinguished Professor, and the Associate Dean for Research in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University. She also serves as the Executive Director of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity & Justice and the Executive Director of the Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions. Prior to joining the faculty at Rutgers, Marybeth was the Judy & Howard Berkowitz Endowed Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author or editor of 35 books, including?Educating a Diverse Nation?(Harvard University Press, 2015 with Clif Conrad),?Envisioning Black Colleges?(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007),?Making Black Scientists?(Harvard University Press, 2019 with Thai-Huy Nguyen), Doing the Right Thing: How to End Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring?(Princeton University, 2022),HBCU: The Power of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024), and her newest book Why Historically Black Colleges Matter: 25 Years of Research for Justic (Teachers College Press, 2025). Marybeth has written over 300 peer-reviewed articles, scholarly essays, and book chapters. She has penned over 650 opinion articles for the nation’s newspapers and magazines and is ranked by Education Week as one of the 20 most influential education scholars in the nation. Marybeth has raised over $24 million in grant funding to support her research and that of her students, mentees, and MSI partners. She has served on the board of trustees of The College Board as well as historically Black colleges – Paul Quinn College, Morris Brown College, and St. Augustine College. Endowed Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author or editor of 35 books, including?Educating a Diverse Nation?(Harvard University Press, 2015 with Clif Conrad),?Envisioning Black Colleges?(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007),?Making Black Scientists?(Harvard University Press, 2019 with Thai-Huy Nguyen), Doing the Right Thing: How to End Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring?(Princeton University, 2022),

Coming This April We welcome Special Guest Contributor, Carolynne Hitter Brown. At a very young age, Carolynne had questions about the racial inequity she saw growing up outside Detroit. White and privileged, finding answers was hard. Music is her first love and was the only way she knew to express the questions and explore the ambiguities she longed to understand. Pursuing a Bachelor and Master of Music, she served in an array of urban churches and community organizations where she led worship and encouraged community. In time, questions burned more deeply as she observed the power of music to agitate and elevate. She pursued her doctoral degree in history and worship at Boston University where she intimately studied the Black Church tradition and sought to understand the ways Black music transforms, connects, and heals its participants. A social historian, Carolynne knows religious experience to be informed and influenced by political, economic, and cultural realities and recognizes Black music as a form of resistance. Deep archival research and a desire to bring Black history to the forefront of modern conversations led to the writing of her forthcoming book, Singing Through Struggle: Music, Worship, and Identity in Postemancipation Black Churches. Carolynne is Adjunct Professor of Christian History at Gordon-Conwell Seminary in Hamilton, MA and the Campus for Urban Ministerial Experience in Boston.

“Self is the Imago Dei (created in His image) space in which we all exist. I am not alone in that space. I and each of us in the human race are enveloped by layers, of community and belonging, including immediate and distant family, ethnicity, nationality, culture, etc.” From the article: Mirage By Kevin Robinson Read this article and many more in the March edition of Three-Fifths Magazine https://lnkd.in/e_wxUs9T

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's concept of "racism without racists" illustrates how institutions can perpetuate racial inequalities while appearing race-neutral. This phenomenon complicates the dialogue around assimilation, as it underscores the need for genuine engagement with the complexities of cultural integration.? From the article: Challenging the Mirage of Assimilation By?Madeleine?Spencer Read this article and many more in the March edition of Three-Fifths Magazine https://lnkd.in/e2dCR7P2

Happening soon!! If you care about Minority Serving Institutions, leadership, and governance, join us!! You can register here: https://lnkd.in/eYxJzyJS Thank you to ECMC Foundation for sponsoring this series and for AGB (Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges) for cosponsoring!! Rutgers University Rutgers Graduate School of Education The Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSI) #MSIs #governance #HBCUs #HSIs #TCUs #AANAPISIs #PBIs #highereducation

Highlighting the Power of HBCUs this #BlackHistoryMonth! ?? This webinar explored the impact of HBCUs with Marybeth Gasman and Levon T. Esters in their book, HBCU: The Power of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. ? Watch the recording here: https://buff.ly/4jiReKt