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Wednesday, August 12, 2009 Research Bootcamp a Success!SISTERS OF THE ACADEMY UNDERTAKES LITERACY PROJECT Members collect and donate more than 150 books to help students in the Black Belt of Alabama (Pictured above: Social Work Professor Dr. Denise Davis-Maye with best-selling author ReShonda Tate Billingsly at the SOTA program in Auburn) Auburn, AL-Third grade students attending George Washington Carver Elementary School in Tuskegee, AL, will return to school in September with more than 150 new books. Members of the Sisters of the Academy (SOTA) collected and presented the books to school officials during their week-long Research BootCamp, Aug. 2-8 at Auburn University. "We know that literacy dictates outcome," said Rema Reynolds , Chair of Outreach Committee, "Indeed, prison officials make projections using the reading scores of third and fourth graders. Our goal is to offset those projections and ensure academic success for these students." The literacy project is one of activities during the Sisters of the Academy third Research BootCamp. The BootCamp, which is offered biennially, is an intensive weeklong experience that provides useful tools to support the development of graduate students' dissertation research and helps junior faculty further the preparation of manuscripts for submission to peer-reviewed journals. SOTA implemented the first BootCamp at Auburn University in 2005. The College of Liberal Arts offers financial support of this program. "We know that literacy is the vehicle to educational attainment-an ideal to which we as academics are personally committed," explained Reynolds. For more information on the Research BootCamp or the literacy project, contact Denise Davis-Maye at (334) 844-2822 or davisd4@auburn.edu . Sisters of the Academy (SOTA) Institute was founded on March 7, 2001 by the authors of Sisters of the Academy: Emergent Black Women Scholars in Higher Education" (Stylus Publishing, 2001). Designed to address many of the issues raised in the book, the mission of SOTA is to facilitate the success of Black women in the academy by fostering research and scholarship collaboration. Numbering more than 100 Black women representing three countries, our members are Master's and Doctoral students, junior and senior faculty, administrators in higher education, and practicing professionals in the fields of business, medicine, law, and government.
For more information on the Research BootCamp or the literacy project, contact Denise Davis-Maye at (334) 844-2822 or davisd4@auburn.edu .
Sisters of the Academy (SOTA) Institute was founded on March 7, 2001 by the authors of Sisters of the Academy: Emergent Black Women Scholars in Higher Education" (Stylus Publishing, 2001). Designed to address many of the issues raised in the book, the mission of SOTA is to facilitate the success of Black women in the academy by fostering research and scholarship collaboration. Numbering more than 100 Black women representing three countries, our members are Master's and Doctoral students, junior and senior faculty, administrators in higher education, and practicing professionals in the fields of business, medicine, law, and government. | ||
