Terrell Strayhorn Speaks at UK
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 26, 2015) — If you walked into a room full of friendly smiles and nods of recognition, you might feel a warm sense of belonging, which might lead to enhanced self-confidence. That confidence might allow your mind to be receptive to new ideas.
That is an over-simplified explanation of the thinking behind Terrell Strayhorn’s book “College Students' Sense of Belonging: A Key to Educational Success for All Students.” Strayhorn, director of the Center for Higher Education Enterprise at The Ohio State University, will discuss “When Education Alone Isn’t Enough: Race and the Criminal Justice System in America" at 7 p.m. today, Oct. 26, in Memorial Hall at the University of Kentucky.
Earlier in the day Strayhorn, professor of higher education, will meet with university leaders, discussing a theoretical and practical understanding of belonging for college students at UK that will serve as the foundation of a discussion of implications of belonging for college student success.
Strayhorn, professor of higher education in the Department of Educational Studies within the College of Education and Human Ecology at Ohio State, is also a faculty affiliate in the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, the Todd A. Bell National Resource Center on the African American Male and the Criminal Justice Research Center. He has faculty appointments in the Ohio State John Glenn College of Public Affairs, Department of African American and African Studies, and Education Policy, Engineering Education, and Sexuality Studies programs.
Strayhorn’s research focuses on major policy issues in education: student access and achievement, equity and diversity, impact of college on students, and student learning and development. An acclaimed higher education researcher and policy analyst, Strayhorn has authored eight books and monographs, including “The Evolving Challenges of Black College Students” (Stylus Publishing, 2010), “College Students’ Sense of Belonging” (Routledge, 2012), and “Theoretical Frameworks in College Student Research” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013). To date, he has authored more than 300 international, national, and state conference papers, presentations and keynote addresses. View his popular TEDx talk on belonging here.
Named “one of the most highly visible new scholars in his field,” by the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, Strayhorn has received numerous national awards and honors, including the ASHE Early Career/Promising Scholar Award, ACPA Annuit Coeptis Award, among others. Diverse Issues in Higher Education named him one of the nation’s Top 12 Diversity Scholars, BusinessFirst Magazine named him one of the “Top 20 to Know in Education,” and he was named an ACPA Diamond Honoree in 2014.
Strayhorn is co-editor of Spectrum: A Journal on Black Men, published by Indiana University Press; former associate editor of the Journal of Higher Education and the NASAP Journal. He serves on the editorial boards of Journal of College Student Development, Journal of Student Affairs Research & Policy, The Review of Higher Education, College Student Affairs Journal, Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships, and International Studies in Widening Participation, among others. Grants totaling more than $2.5 million have supported his research program, including funds from the U.S. Department of Education, National Science Foundation, and several professional associations.