Symposium (1):
The Minority Achievement, Creativity, and High Ability (MACH-III) Center: Researching the Status of Minority Populations across the P-20 Education Spectrum in the U.S.
Dr. Fred A. Bonner II; Dr. Rishi Raj
Minority Achievement, Creativity and High Ability Center (MACH-III); Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling; Prairie View A&M University, USA
Under the direction of Dr. Fred A. Bonner II, professor and endowed chair at Prairie View A&M University, the mission of the Minority Achievement, Creativity, and High-Ability (MACH-III) Center is to produce cutting-edge best-practices and scholarship that will speak to the contemporary issues impacting our target populations across the P-20 spectrum and beyond into critical workplace contexts. The tripartite focus of the MACH-III Center among critical populations is administration, faculty, and students. The Center serves as a crucible that will facilitate the combinations of key elements from multiple disciplines and fields. The contributions of the MACH-III Center to the knowledge base will be operationalized primarily through six strategic foci that are referred to as vectors. This presentation will provide an overview of the Minority Achievement, Creativity, and High-Ability Center (MACH-III) Center, our unique positionality within the U.S. educational context, and our six strategic areas of research focus.
Short Biographies
Dr. Fred A. Bonner, II is Professor and Endowed Chair in Educational Leadership and Counseling at Prairie View A&M University. He is formerly the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University and an esteemed expert in the field of diversity in education. Prior to joining Rutgers, he was Professor of Higher Education Administration and Dean of Faculties at Texas A&M University-College Station. He earned a B.A. in chemistry from the University of North Texas, an M.S. Ed. in curriculum and instruction from Baylor University, and an Ed.D. in higher education administration & college teaching from the University of Arkansas. Bonner has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the American Association for Higher Education Black Caucus Dissertation Award and the Educational Leadership, Counseling and Foundation's Dissertation of the Year Award from the University of Arkansas College of Education. His work has been featured nationally and internationally. He is the author of the recently released book, Building on Resilience:Models and Frameworks of Black Male Success Across the P-20 Pipeline.
Dr. Rishi Raj is the Associate Director of the Minority Achievement, Creativity, and High-Ability Center (MACH-III) Center, under the Marvin D. and June Samuel Brailsford College of Arts and Sciences, at Prairie View A&M University, part of the Texas A&M University System. The mission of the center is to produce cutting-edge best-practices and scholarship that speaks to contemporary issues impacting critical populations: administration, faculty, and students across the P-20 spectrum and beyond into workplace contexts. In addition, Dr. Rishi Raj is Associate Editor of the Journal of Minority Achievement, Creativity and Leadership (JMACL) is affiliated with the Minority Achievement, Creativity, and High-Ability Center (MACH-III) Center at Prairie View A&M University. The journal underscores achievement, creativity, and leadership among gifted and high-achieving minority populations across the P-20 continuum and aims to provide a range of information that foregrounds asset-based as opposed to deficit-oriented models for academics as well as practitioners in P-12 and higher education contexts.
Contact Info:
Dr. Fred A. Bonner II; Dr. Rishi Raj
Minority Achievement, Creativity and High Ability Center (MACH-III);
Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling;
Whitlowe R. Green College of Education;
Prairie View A&M University;
W.F. Delco Room 229; P.O. Box 519, Mail Stop 2420; Prairie View, Texas 77446, USA.
Phone: 936.261.3656; Fax: 936.261.3617
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