Dr. Hadley Discussing the Decline of Black Men in College on NPR
How high school community outreach programs can help develop future female and minority leaders
These past several weeks I have tried to pin down a subject for my next article. Each day I thought I was close, then backed off. It was when I heard a former student of mine, Calvin Hadley, PhD on NPR’s All Things Considered that I had my subject.
In Greek mythology, the Muses are inspirational goddesses of literature, science, and the arts. Discovering that one of my students has a PhD and is an Assistant Provost at Howard University inspired me to write about how Dr. Hadley and I met twenty-two years ago.
Discovering my prior student has a PhD and is an Assistant Provost.
A LinkedIn post that caught my eye was by Calvin Hadley, PhD. He participated in a high school outreach program I founded at Loyola Marymount University called the Science and Engineering Community Outreach Program (SECOP). The program aimed to improve the pipeline of women and minorities studying STEM in college and going on to STEM careers. Its origin story started with seed money from the Honda Foundation. Between 2001 and 2012, SECOP received $600,000 in funding to provide a two-week…
