December 19, 2003

Black Academics Seek to Apply Scholarship to Problems in Black Neighborhoods

By ROBIN WILSON

Since last year, Brothers of the Academy has nearly doubled its membership -- to 250 black male scholars. It has also held a meeting that it called its first think tank, and is planning a new publication, to be called The Journal of the Professoriate.

The group was founded in 1998 with just seven young black scholars, recent Ph.D.'s who wanted to support one another through the tenure process and encourage more minority men to choose an academic career (The Chronicle, November 29,

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