How We “Fit”: African-American Faculty at a Predominantly White Institution of Higher Education: A Case Study of a Small Liberal Arts College in Virginia

Authors

Dorothy A Smith Akubue-Brice, Associate Professor, School of Humanities and the Social Sciences, Lynchburg College

Date of this Version

November 2005

Abstract

This session will address historical, sociological, and psychological perspectives that should lend insight into fostering the effective performance of culturally diverse individuals within a predominantly Euro-American institutional setting. Research-based implications will be shared through the lens of three African-American female professors within such a context.