The Politics of Curricular Change

The Editors: M. Christopher Brown II is Executive Director and Chief Research Scientist of the Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute of the United Negro College Fund, and Associate Professor of Education and Senior Research Associate in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Brown is the author or co-author of more than fifty journal articles, book chapters, monographs, and publications related to education and society. He is the author/editor of four books: The Quest to Define Collegiate Desegregation; Organization and Governance in Higher Education; Black Sons to Mothers (with James Earl Davis; Peter Lang 2000); and Black Colleges (with Kassie Freeman). He has lectured and/or presented scholarship in various countries in Africa, Australia, Europe, and North America. Dr. Brown received his Ph.D. in higher education with cognates in public administration and political science from The Pennsylvania State University. Roderic R. Land, former Illinois Consortium Educational Opportunity Fellow, is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research analyzes the experiences of African American professors in predominantly white classroom settings, an area of research that attempts to illuminate issues of power relations, identity development, and race that are implicit within this environment. Land holds an M.A. in human development and education from the University of Illinois-Springfield with an emphasis in racial identity development of African-American adolescents.