| Session Title: Advancing the Research and Culturally Responsive Evaluation Enterprise in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) for Global Justice |
| Think Tank Session 482 to be held in Wekiwa 3 on Friday, Nov 13, 9:15 AM to 10:45 AM |
| Sponsored by the Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation TIG |
| Presenter(s): |
| Leona Johnson, Hampton University, leona.johnson@hamptonu.edu |
| Discussant(s): |
| Stella Hargett, Morgan State University, evaluations561@aol.com |
| Marie Hammond, Tennessee State University, mshammond@cpsy.com |
| Ruth Greene, Johnson C Smith University, rgreene@jcsu.edu |
| Kevin Favor, Lincoln University, kfavor@lincoln.edu |
| Warren Gooden, Cheyney State University, doctorayo@comcast.net |
| Abstract: This Think Tank allows for the capacity building initiative, commenced by the American Evaluation Association and supported substantially by the National Science Foundation, to move forward. The planning grant from which six HBCU were able to direct an assessment of each campus communities' available pool of talent, interest, resources, support, needs, and expectations proved valuable in terms of identifying the degree of preparedness and the challenges faced if actualizing those models deemed most attractive by their campus collaborators. Five contextual questions that encapsulate the concerns tapped by the planning effort are to be posed to five groups of attendees. Each group will be facilitated with the intent to report ideas promising for 1) maximizing collaborations intra- and inter-institutionally, 2) obtaining professional development for whom, 3) recruiting/ retaining targeted students, 4) infusing cultural knowledge and familiarity into the institutional community, and 5) addressing gate-keeping courses and administrative challenges. |