{"id":56313,"date":"2018-04-26T02:30:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T02:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56313"},"modified":"2018-04-26T02:30:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T02:30:19","slug":"donna-nicol-an-agent-of-change-for-africana-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56313","title":{"rendered":"Donna Nicol: An Agent of Change for Africana Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donna Nicol: An Agent of Change for Africana Studies<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

CSUDH Campus News Center<\/a>
\nCalifornia State University, Dominguez Hills<\/a>
\nCarson, California
\n2018-03-12<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nDonna Nicol<\/a>, associate professor and chair of Africana Studies at CSU Dominguez Hills<\/a>.<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Donna Nicol<\/a>, associate professor and chair of Africana Studies, arrived at CSUDH<\/a> in fall 2017. As a faculty member, she teaches Comparative Ethnic and Global Societies. As chair, Nicol is working with her colleagues and the university administration to strengthen the program\u2019s curriculum and bolster its presence on campus and in the region.<\/em><\/p>\n

A fourth-generation \u201cComptonite,\u201d Nicol\u2019s deep local roots and unique upbringing in a community-focused family has had a profound effect on her as a researcher and educator. She briefly left South Los Angeles<\/a> for Ohio State University where she earned a Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Foundations of Education with a specialization in African American higher educational history, and a minor in African American Studies in 2007.<\/em><\/p>\n

Prior to coming to CSUDH, Nicol was the first woman of color to be promoted and tenured in Women\u2019s Studies at CSU Fullerton. She joined the faculty ranks at Fullerton after spending nearly a decade working in higher education administration, a nontraditional career path that she believes gives her a unique perspective on the ethos of public education, and an advantage as an academic chair…<\/em><\/p>\n

…Nicol sat down with CSUDH Campus News Center<\/a> to discuss her unique Compton<\/a> upbringing, her latest research, and her perspectives regarding the African American experience in higher education.<\/em><\/p>\n

Q<\/strong>: To get started, can you tell me about your upbringing in Compton, and a little about how it influences you as an educator?<\/em><\/p>\n

A<\/strong>: My family moved the Compton because it was one of the few places in Los Angeles<\/a> at the time that allowed African Americans to buy homes. Coming from a military background\u2014my great-grandfather was as an Army doctor during World War I<\/a>\u2014my great-grandparents didn\u2019t want to go back to the South with mixed-race kids (Filipino and Black). After World War II<\/a>, they moved to California<\/a> as did my paternal grandparents who also moved to Compton to avoid racial segregation in the Jim Crow<\/a> South. We were one of the few families that had the opportunity to go to college. My great-grandfather was a doctor, so he had \u201ccultural capital,\u201d and taught my grandmother how to prepare for college; who passed it on to my mother; who passed it on to me…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Donna Nicol, associate professor and chair of Africana Studies, arrived at CSUDH in fall 2017. As a faculty member, she teaches Comparative Ethnic and Global Societies. As chair, Nicol is working with her colleagues and the university administration to strengthen the program\u2019s curriculum and bolster its presence on campus and in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,13743,8,20],"tags":[455,3762,28576,28574,28577,28575,17338,787],"class_list":["post-56313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-california","tag-california-state-university","tag-compton","tag-csu-dominguez-hills","tag-csudh","tag-csudh-campus-news-center","tag-donna-nicol","tag-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56314,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56313\/revisions\/56314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}