Jackson State University’s Executive Ph.D. in Urban Higher Education program has published its first edition of a national research journal since being selected by the editorial board of the National Association of Student Affairs to assume editorship.
NASAP provides support for student affairs professionals and students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities through annual conferences and the publication of the NASAP newsletter and journal. The editorial board looked into institutions across the country to take over the journal.
“We decided the Higher Education program at Jackson State would be an ideal place. It’s one of the few HBCU institutions that have a Higher Ed program,” says Dr. Marcus Chanay, president of the NASAP editorial board.
“One of the major areas of our higher education program is student affairs,” explains Dr. Walter Brown, executive director of the Urban Higher Education program and managing editor of the NASAP Journal of Student Affairs. “We’ve got students who do research in that particular area to obtain their Ph.D. in Urban Higher Education, so they thought it would be good a fit.”
Dr. James Samuel Maddirala, associate professor of Urban Higher Education, serves as the co-editor, but he and Dr. Brown aren’t the only ones working on the journal.
Articles submitted by graduate students, researchers, scholars and student affairs practitioners from all over the country will be reviewed by doctoral candidates in the Executive Ph.D. program as well as recognized scholars and practitioners in the field of student affairs. Students, both current and former, will also be encouraged to submit content.
The first edition of the journal, which includes titles such as “Intraracial Diversity at Historically Black Colleges” and “Criminal History Screening in College Admissions,” was published in April and will soon be available at www.jsums.edu/ephd. Dr. Brown plans to publish twice a year for Spring and Winter. The next edition will be out in December.
JSU’s Executive Ph.D. in Urban Higher Education program is designed to prepare experienced higher education leaders, faculty and mid-level administrators to assume senior leadership roles in post-secondary institutions and related organizations with a focus in urban areas. Students are expected to master the theoretical, conceptual and practical issues to conduct research that is of national significance to the field of higher education.