FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling Book Launch
Date/Time/Location: November 10th @ 1:00 pm in the John B. Coleman Library Room 108
College Student Self-Efficacy Research Studies
Mentoring African American Males: A Research Design Comparison Study
The Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling is pleased to announce a book launch for
Drs. Terence Hicks, Michael McFrazier, and William Ross. The book launch is a major accomplishment
that highlights the significant work that professors in the Department of Educational Leadership and
Counseling are having on a national level. Five books have been published by departmental faculty from
2013-2014.
The book launch will feature a 10-15 minute overview of Drs. Hicks and McFrazier’s recently released
book, College Student Self-Efficacy Research Studies and Dr. William Ross recently released book,
Mentoring African American Males: A Research Design Comparison Perspective.
Drs. Hicks and McFrazier’s book received a glowing review from Dr. Fred Bonner, Samuel DeWitt Proctor
Chair of Education at Rutgers University. Dr. Bonner highlights the significant contribution the book will
have on a national level writing, “What Hicks and McFrazier offer in this critically important time not
only adds to the empirical research literature on self-efficacy among Black college student cohorts, but
also situates while at the same time foregrounds the relevance of efficacious behaviors for these
cohorts in a diverse array of higher education contexts. The cutting-edge scholarship in this book is
certain to spark discourse on this topic for many years to come.”
Dr. Ross has a three book series that addresses critical issues in educating African American males. The
new series will play a major role in contributing to the scholarly discussion around the education of
African American males. The book’s opening descriptor highlights its value, “Mentoring African
American Males provides important black male research and student performance data to guide the
efforts of those who accept the enormous task of standing in the gap to increase black male
achievement”.
Please join us in celebrating the accomplishment of these scholars!
ISBN: 978-0-7618-6269-7 –Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-7618-6270-3 – eBook
ISBN: 9781623968014 – Paperback
ISBN: 9781623968021 - Hardcover