Georgia State University researchers and their collaborators have received nearly $7.2 million in grant funding to develop a model for community-based work in geosciences with a focus on social justice.
Religious studies scholars at Georgia State University and Spelman College have received a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to develop digital and physical archives to highlight Black women religious leaders’ contributions to religious communities and activism in the United States.
Professor Chara Bohan, of the College of Education & Human Development, discusses with GSU's Research Magazine about how the "Lost Cause" narrative came to dominate U.S. history books — and the lingering effects of our miseducation.
The challenge today is to learn from and leverage existing research, translating general findings to specific contexts and for different audiences. That effort can help ensure that an institution’s mission driven diversity and inclusion goals are clearly defined, effectively pursued, and legally permissible.
With a special (though not exclusive) focus on racial and ethnic diversity, this paper is intended to support those efforts by:
1. Surveying the current research landscape related to student diversity in higher education for areas of strength and areas in need of further exploration;
2. Suggesting prospective research directions that may inform action within individual institutions and in the broader higher education community; and
3. Identifying policy and practice implications for institutions in a shifting political and legal landscape.
This paper is focused on assisting individual colleges and universities as they work to enhance their own research efforts, informed by the broader landscape of common principles and interests at play in the broad higher education community.
Even though the U.S. economy is projected to regain its pre-pandemic strength as early as 2024, the negative impact to Black workers' previous labor market gains could linger after the country recovers from the pandemic-related recession, according to new policy research from a Georgia State University faculty member.
Julie L. Hotchkiss, a research economist and senior policy adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, who is also an adjunct professor at Georgia State's Andrew Young School of Policy studies, explained the issue in this policy paper from the FRB of Atlanta's Policy Hub.
Gholnecsar Muhammad is an associate professor in the Department of Middle and Secondary Education at Georgia State. Her work and research are centered around culturally responsive education.
“Culturally responsive education is in response to students’ identities and the times we live in. It helps students with academic success, cultural competence, as well as social and political consciousness.”
Ciara Smalls Glover, an Associate Professor of Psychology at Georgia State, is examining factors that mitigate the adverse effects of discrimination against persons from racial and ethnic minority backgrounds, including consequences for their emotional, academic and physical health.
“I was originally studying stress and coping, and from that I learned about the weight of a persistent stressor for communities of color—and that’s racial and ethnic discrimination.”
One of the factors that literature has found to be especially protective is racial and ethnic identity, Dr. Glover said. These are the beliefs and attitudes about an individual’s group membership. She said that these beliefs and attitudes evolve over time, with family playing a critical role.
“Identity doesn’t just happen. It develops. And one of the salient influences in that development is family,” Dr. Glover explained. “The role of the family has been central to my work and looking at the varied messages that families send to prepare their child for independence. Families from under-represented groups often don’t get permission to be portrayed in multi-faceted ways.”
Georgia State’s College of Arts & Sciences has established the Center for Studies on Africa and its Diaspora, a multidisciplinary hub for the exchange of cultural, scientific, economic, policy and humanities knowledge within the university, and with local and global communities and collaborators.
The center will support research and academic initiatives, artistic efforts and public programming, including exhibits, lectures and conferences, and advance policy proposals that target issues of concern to the African diaspora across the university and the broader community.
The formation of the center addresses one of the key recommendations of Georgia State’s Commission for the Next Generation of Faculty, which was tasked with identifying strategies for the university to address faculty diversity, equity and inclusion. The commission delivered its recommendations in June 2019.
