Race, Development, and Social Inequality: Developing Cross-Cultural, Interdisciplinary Curricula in Brazil and the United States

Howard University

Howard University

Howard University is a comprehensive, research‑oriented, historically Black private university providing an educational experience of exceptional quality to students of high academic potential with particular emphasis upon the provision of educational opportunities to promising Black students.

The Mission

Howard University is the only United States Carnegie doctoral/research externsive university that is also a Historically Black University. It is located in the heart of Washington , DC , less than two miles from the United States Congress and the White House.The University 's mission is central to everything we do and is found in a 1989 resolution of the Board of Trustees.

Howard University is a comprehensive, research-oriented, historically Black private university providing an educational experience of exceptional quality to students of high academic potential with particular emphasis upon the provision of educational opportunities to promising Black students. Further, the University is dedicated to attracting and sustaining a cadre of faculty who are, through their teaching and research, committed to the development of distinguished and compassionate graduates and to the quest for solutions to human and social problems in the United States and throughout the world.

Vision

Howard University is a comprehensive research university, unique and irreplaceable, defined by its core values, the excellence of all its activities in instruction, research and service, and by its enduring commitment to educating youth, African Americans and other people of color in particular, for leadership and service to our nation and the global community.

Core Values

These are our core values: First, this University must continue to be dedicated to an unequivocal search for truth; second, this University must continue to be a place where African Americans and others can come to study, free of oppression of any type, stripe, or kind; third, this University must engender and nurture an environment that celebrates African-American culture in all its diversity; and fourth, this University must provide a caring, nurturing and respectful environment for all of the members of the Howard family: students, faculty, staff, Trustees, and administrators.

Further, Howard University must engender in its students the spirit and quality of leadership for which Howard faculty and alumni are already known. That leadership is manifest in the form of service to the local, national and international community.

Howard University is unique in its diversity and we value that diversity. We are diverse in our community of faculty, staff, students and alumni who reflect the global community. And, we are diverse in regard to the wide range of fields of study and scholarship that is pursued each day. Our diversity is directed at the realization of the American ideal for all Americans. We seek to ensure equal protection under the law and equal opportunity, fair reward for a life of work and service, and the opportunity for all to acquire an education and to enjoy adequate health care.

Howard University: The Graduate School
Website address: http://www.gs.howard.edu/

Shortly after its founding in 1867, Howard University 's Board of Trustees authorized the award of the master's degree to post-baccalaureate students upon the completion of three years of graduate work and the submission of a satisfactory thesis on a topic approved by the faculty. The first Master of Arts degree was awarded in 1870. The progress of the graduate program at the master's level led to the institution of the Graduate Division and, in 1934, to the establishment of the Graduate School as a separate organizational unit within the University. The first course of study leading to the Ph.D. degree was authorized by the Board of Trustees in 1955 and the first Ph.D. degree was conferred in 1958.

Since 1919, nearly 10,000 students have received their graduate academic degrees from Howard University . About 12 percent of those alumni earned their Ph.D. degrees and the remainder received master's degrees. Significantly, the Ph.D. recipients have mainly consisted of African Americans and other minorities representing the largest number of such graduates from a single institution of higher education.

The Graduate School at Howard shares the common understanding of the nature of graduate education. There are programs of study and research leading to the Master of Arts, Master of Science, Master of Engineering, Master of Computer Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in various disciplines in the natural, biological, engineering, and social sciences, in the arts and humanities, and in the applied sciences. Through the commitment of the University and faculty, and in accordance with the interest of the national and local communities in the problems of African American and other underrepresented groups, concentrations are offered in the areas of Afro-American literature and history, African studies, human development, and urban affairs.

Approximately 250 plus scholar-teachers serve as faculty members in the Graduate School . These individuals have met a rigorous peer review process and they supervise and conduct research programs of high quality in their areas of expertise. They also serve as major professors and advisers to students enrolled in the master's and Ph.D. degree programs; involve themselves in diversified activities of the University, their professional organizations, and the community; attract external funding support for basic and applied research projects; and publish the results of their scholarly work in books, monographs, and professional journals.