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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) was no exception. Dr. Linda Darling- Hammond The leadership of the national research society that strives to advance knowledge about education and currently boasts a membership of about 25,000 scholars — remained exclusively white until the 1990s. Ball, the Charles E.

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Community-Engaged Scholar Dr. DeLeon Gray Believes in the Value of Hyperlocal Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

To date, Gray has mentored over 100 students through Black and Belonging in Durham Public Schools. Gray began conducting youth programs when he arrived at North Carolina State as a professor in 2012. “It’s scholarship in a different form.” These schools feel like home to me.”