School of Education Hosts Dr. James D. Anderson

Released: 3/8/07

The School of Education is pleased to host James D. Anderson, professor of educational policy studies and professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for a talk on Wednesday, March 28, 2007.

How African Americans Reduced the

Opportunity and Achievement Gap:

Lessons for Educators, Community Activists,

and Policy-Makers

4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 28, 2007

in the Alumni Memorial Union Monaghan Ballroom.

See flyer for more information.

Dr. Anderson is the author of The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935 which received the Outstanding Book Award of the American Educational Research Association, the Critics Choice Award of the American Educational Studies Association and the Outstanding Book Award of the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States. Anderson is also an editor of New Perspectives on Black Educational History and has published numerous articles on history and education. He has testified in court for numerous cases regarding school desegregation including the recent University of Michigan affirmative action case. His most current work includes a publication in press entitled Racial desegregation in higher education.

Anderson earned a bachelor's degree (1966) from Stillman College and both a master's degree (1969) and doctorate (1973) from the University of Illinois. He is listed in Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities and was named an Outstanding Faculty Member by the University of Illinois Black Graduate Student Association. He was also named a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study and Behavioral Science at Stanford University.