Service

University

  • Guest Speaker, Academy for the Art of Teaching, 2006.
  • Guest Speaker, Academy for the Art of Teaching, 2004.
  • Member, Financial Infrastructure Cross-Functional Action Planning Team, 2002.
  • Member, Advisory Committee, Center for Urban Education and Innovation, 2001-2002.
  • Member, Minority Faculty Development Award Committee, FIU, 1994.
  • Member, FIU Strategic Planning Advisory Committee, 1993 to present.
  • Member, Advisory Committee on Curriculum Development at Clark/Atlanta University, 1990.
  • Member, Board of Examinees Observers to Augusta State College, April, 1990 (NCATE).
  • Member, Planning Committee for the Development of a Center for African Studies, 1986-1990.
  • Member, Apportionment Board, 1987-1989.
  • Gave eight lectures on the Human Prospect in Africa South of the Sahara, organized by the  Geography Department, 1988 an 1989.

 

College

  • Reader, Urban Center Research Grant, 2002.
  • Co-coordinator, Taiwan Project, 1992 to 1995.
  • Member, Doctoral Policy Committee, 1993 to present.
  • Member, College Scholarship Committee, 1991 to 1995.
  • Member, Adjunct Committee, 1992 to 1995.
  • Member, Faculty Search Committee (FIU), 1991-1992.
  • Chair, Curriculum Committee, 1988-1989.
  • Member, Curriculum Committee, 1987-1988.
  • Member, Faculty Search Committee, 1988/89 (University of Utah).

Department

  • Member, Curriculum and Instruction Doctoral Program Committee , 2002.
  • Member, Admissions Committee, 2000-present.
  • Member, Faculty Search Committee 1991-1996.
  • Member, Graduate Certification Committee, 1987-1989

International, National & State Services:

  • External Reader- Social Science Research Council of Canada, 2006 – 2007.
  • External Reader- Social Science Research Council of Canada, 2003.
  • Program Chair - AERA SIG: Research Focus on Education in the Caribbean and Africa, (1999-2003).
  • Member - Editorial/Advisory Board Journal of Negro Education , 1996-2002.
  • External Examiner- University of the West Indies at Trinidad and Tobago, 2001-2003.
  • Consultant - SACS accreditation, St. Brendan and St. Timothy, 1992.
  • Visiting Evaluator - SACS accredited, Palmetto Senior High School
  • Visited a number of schools to talk about multicultural education and African history, 1992, 1993.
  • University Representative on Utah Council for Social Studies, 1986-1989.
  • Reader - Papers for the Intermountain Social Studies Conference, Salt Lake City, 1988.
  • Special invitation to be a Panelist on Special Topics in the Social Studies, meeting of Social Science Education Consortium, Logan, Utah, 1988.
  • Member, Editorial Board FASCD Policy Review, 1992 to 1998.
  • Chair, African Security - Association of Third World Studies, Gainesville, NC, Oct. 1992.
  • Discussant, Education and Equity - CIES, Kingston, Jamaica, March 16-19, 1993.
  • Reviewer, Division B, Curriculum, AERA, 1992 to present.
  • Reviewer, Division G, Social Context of Education, AERA, 1993.
  • Reviewer, RFECA SIG (Research Focus on Education in the Caribbean & Africa).
  • Reviewer, International Education SIG, AERA.
  • Manuscript Reviewer, Journal of Negro Education 1994-1995, 1995-1996, 1996-1998, 2000-present.
  • Manuscript Reviewer, Urban Education 1996-2002.
  • Manuscript Reviewer, International Journal of Educational Development 1996, 1997.