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September 2010 > Students > Honors
Doctoral Student Receives UC ACCORD Fellowship
Maxine McKinney De Royston, a doctoral candidate in Cognition and Development, received a dissertation fellowship from UC/ACCORD, the All Campus Consortium on Research for Diversity. She is conducting an intensive study of an African American school in the Bay Area to understand how they enact an African-centered pedagogy and its relationship to students' schooling experiences and educational trajectories. Her research examines how culturally relevant pedagogies teach to the "whole child" by employing an ethic of interpersonal and institutional care. Her dissertation is entitled "Teaching to the Spirit: Unpacking the "hidden" curriculum of African centered education."
McKinney de Royston was among nine doctoral dissertation recipeints and from UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine to receive fellowships for work that addresses schooling inequalities in their studies in the fields of sociology, literacy, cognition and development, urban schooling and higher education. In addition, two UC Santa Barbara professors collaborating on a college-level curriculum in linguistics for high school students received the faculty seed grant, awarded to support the initial stages of research.'
"The fellows are conducting groundbreaking work that will surely make a great contribution to educational equity and opportunity," said Daniel G. Solorzano, UC ACCORD director and professor of education at UCLA.
This year's fellows, along with the recipients from 2009, will present their work during the annual UC ACCORD Conference, held in Lake Arrowhead next month.
UC ACCORD seeks to increase the number of graduate students and faculty within the UC system whose scholarship informs critical conditions for enhancing college opportunities, transitions in the lives of underrepresented students and issues related to making higher education accessible to all Californians. The dissertation fellowship and faculty seed grant recipients engage in research that will support and inform Californians' efforts to replace prevailing patterns of schooling inequality and disparities in access to higher education with equitable conditions and outcomes for children from all sectors of the state.
Since 2001, UC ACCORD has awarded 75 dissertation fellowships, 11 postdoctoral fellowships and 23 faculty seed grants, totaling about $2.5 million.
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