January 9, 2015
LEED Student Selected for AERA Institue
Mr. Levy Brown, a current student in the Educational Leadership program, was selected as a participant in the 8th Annual Asa G. Hilliard III and Barbara A. Sizemore Research Institute on African Americans and Education sponsored by the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Research Focus on Black Education SIG to pursue his doctorate.
According to the institute’s directors, Drs. Jerlando F L. Jackson (Vilas Distinguished Professor of Higher Education, Director and Chief Research Scientist, Wisconsin’s Equity and Inclusion Laboratory University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Lamont A. Flowers (Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership and Executive Director, Charles H. Houston Center for the Study of the Black Experience in Education Clemson University), Mr. Brown was selected from among a large national pool of applicants.