Dr. Michelle Deardorff discussed ways that applicants can build tenure and/or promotion portfolios that minimize the opportunities for reviewer bias. Dr. Michelle Deardorff is a professor in JSU’s Department of Political Science. She is joined by Dr. Jean-Claude Assad, director of business graduate programs at JSU.

Henry Brady, Dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy and Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, presented the fifth Holden Lecture, “Class, Race and Political Polarization in America.”

Henry Brady, Dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy and Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, presented the fifth Holden Lecture, “Class, Race and Political Polarization in America.”

A panel of senior Jackson State faculty and typical reviewers of tenure and promotion applications suggest best practices and strategies for successfully navigating the tenure and promotion processes. They also answer questions about proposed guideline changes.

Dianne Pinderhughes, President’s Distinguished Professor at the University of Notre Dame, presented the fourth Holden Lecture, “Being President: Barack Hussein Obama and Black Politics after the Civil Rights Revolution.”

A panel of senior Jackson State faculty and typical reviewers of tenure and promotion applications suggest best practices and strategies for successfully navigating the tenure and promotion processes.

Glenn Loury, the Merton P. Stolz Professor of the Social Sciences and Economics at Brown University, presented the third Holden Lecture, “Barack Obama and the Future of the Black Prophetic Tradition.”

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The Center thanks Col. Benjamin Wesley, who filmed the lecture.

Glenn Loury, the Merton P. Stolz Professor of the Social Sciences and Economics at Brown University, presented the third Holden Lecture, “Barack Obama and the Future of the Black Prophetic Tradition.”

Theda Skocpol, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University, presented the second Holden Lecture, “What A Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality.”