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F.Y.I. Northwest Houston Center Newsletter F.Y.I. Northwest Houston Center newsletter Celebrating Black History Month Prairie View Co-Eds All Girl Band Pages 12-14 Volume 11, Issue 1 February 2018 Northwest Houston Center Dr. Tyrone Tanner, Executive Director, and professor in the Whitlowe R. Green Col- lege of Education, brings a wealth of leadership experience and community partner- ships to the NWHC. In addition to authoring numerous books and articles, Dr. Tanner has served as a middle and high school teacher, principal, and central office administra- tor. His scholarship on culturally responsive teaching, parenting, and partnerships has made him highly sought after by school districts locally and nationally. At present, he is responsible for membership efforts for the Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender, Special Interest Group for the American Educational Research As- sociation. History Prairie View A&M University was founded in 1876 and is the second-oldest public institution of higher education in Texas. With an established reputation for producing engineers, corporate leaders, nurses and educators, the his- torically black college offers a variety of bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree programs through eight colleges and schools. A member of The Texas A&M University System, the University is dedicated to fulfilling its land- grant mission of achieving excellence in teaching, research and service. During the university’s 134-year history, more than 54,000 academic degrees have been awarded. The original Office of Civil Rights Texas Plan, assigned PVAMU the responsibility for satisfying higher educa- tion needs of the citizens of Texas, especially in the Northwest Houston Corridor. A demand for graduate and cer- tification courses led to PVAMU establishing a presence in the Northwest Houston area in the late 1980. All courses offered were in partnerships with school districts in the area and were held on designated school campus- es. In the early 1990s, PVAMU centralized all course offerings in the N.W. Houston area by leasing 20,000 square feet of contiguous space from Compaq Computer Corporation, Inc. (20525 SH 249 – Suite 150, Houston, TX) to be used for classroom and office space. In 1998, PVAMU relocated all course offering to 16800 Stuebner Airline Road, Spring, TX thus establishing the N.W. Houston Academic Center. In 2000, approval was obtained from the appropriate regulatory and accrediting agencies to offer the Master of Education in Educational Admin- istration degree and the Master of Arts in Counseling degree. In 2009, PVAMU purchased, from Lone Star Community College, the current facility located at 9449 Grant Road north of Willowbrook Mall. This two-story building, near Tomball Parkway and FM 1960, has 52,000 square feet of classroom, meeting and student service space. The Northwest Houston Center is a fully functional extension of the PVAMU main campus. Featured in this Issue Black History Month Film: Tell Them We Are 8-11 Rising: History of HBCUs NWHC Executive Director 2 Divas of the Decade: Prairie View Co-eds All Girl 12-14 Band NWHC Art Exhibit 4 Building on Resilience 15 Lecture Series-Dr. Judy A. Alston A Reflection on Martin Luther King, Jr. 5 & 18 Technology News 16-17 Income Tax Seminars at NWHC 6 HMAAC honors Sandra Bland 18-19 Library Talk—Amazing Women 7 Editorial Information 20 2 Texas Association of Black Personnel in Higher Education & Texas Alliance of Black School Educators Joint State Conference Hyatt Regency Houston February 22-25, 2018 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ruth J. Simmons TABPHE is excited to hold its 45th Annual State Conference, February 22-25, 2018 in Houston, Texas at the Hyatt Regency Houston Hotel. This will be a joint state conference with the Texas Alliance of Black School Educators (TABSE). The Houston Chapter of TABPHE will be the host for this important convention. Since 1973, the Texas Association of Black Personnel in Higher Education has been a dynam- ic organization which provides a statewide vehicle for a diverse, multicultural workforce to learn, share, direct, lead and influence our educational system. As rich as the organization is in resources, it is also rich in history. The founders of this great organization had a vision to formally organize an association to pro- mote, maintain and assure the development and growth of African Americans in the educational process. Dr. Ruth J. Simmons is the current President of Prairie View A&M University. She previously served as the 18th president of Brown University, the first black president of an Ivy League institution. Simmons was elected Brown's first female president in November 2000, assuming that office in the fall of 2001. She also held appointments as a professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and Africana Studies. In 2002, Newsweek selected her as the Ms. Woman of the Year, while in 2001, Time named her as America's best college president. According to a March 2009 poll by The Brown Daily Herald, Simmons had more than an 80% approval rating among Brown undergraduates. To register for the conference go to www.tabphe.org. 3 NWHC Art Exhibit Celebrating Black History February 1-March 1, 2018 Reception February 21st 6:00 to 8:00 pm Dope Art Dealers gives you the feel and beauty of time- less art captivating history and culture in its nostalgic form. Rita Ann Reyes and Peter Roshan Dowdy, by way of Houston, Texas, together bring ideas and design to canvas with a unique appeal to the admiring eye. Peter Roshan Dowdy, a Prairie View A&M University alum, will showcase many of his works at the Northwest Houston Center in celebration of Black History month. The exhibit will be displayed in the lobby, library and second floor. For more information please contact Elizabeth Jean Brumfield at [email protected]. 4 A Reflection on the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. By Dr. Ruth J. Simmons Reprinted from PVAMU Campus News http://www.pvamu.edu/blog/a-reflection-on-the-legacy-of-martin-luther-king-jr/ The tragic circumstances of Martin Luther King’s untimely death and the upheaval and alienation that fol- lowed are etched in the memories of anyone who lived through that turbulent period. But the fact that MLK recognition events remain relevant a half-century later reveals not simply the importance of King’s life and vision, but also the stark reality of a nation still dogged by the legacy of slavery, racism, and Jim Crow. In every decade following the King era, we have found a renewed reason to remind the world and especially the coming generations of the legacy of this great man. For no philosophy, no leader, no move- ment has yet emerged to unseat King as the broadest and most defining civil rights activist in the Nation’s history. At the same time, since those days, there has been no protracted period of advancement that convinces us there is less need to focus on what King and his vision represent for the country. Today, can there be any doubt that we are mired in social ills and divisions that cry out for robust policies and actions that advance the central aims of our democracy: freedom, equality, and justice? Shaping a path through the current divi- sions in the country is an urgent task. As hatreds and biases are irresponsibly stoked by the highest levels of power, we long for a compelling voice of reconciliation and a humane and healing expression of inclu- siveness. Martin Luther King, Jr. was that voice in his time, and he remains that voice today. In a 1957 article in Christian Century (Christian Century 74, 6 February 1957, 165-67), the prophetic King warned us of the consequences of “physical violence and corroding hatred.” He said that if we “succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle for justice, unborn generations will live in a desolate night of bitterness, and their chief legacy will be an endless reign of chaos.” Martin Luther King’s vision for justice in America required Agape love, which he defined as “redeeming goodwill for all men.” He called for us to “project the ethics of love to the (very) center of our lives.” It is not only physical violence that is the companion of hatred; it is violence of other kinds. The violence of bigotry. The violence of exclusion. The violence of exploitation. The violence of benign indifference. The violence of hateful speech. Hatred, the very opposite of the love that King espoused, is formed in the crucible of pride and self-interest, a toxic mix causing individuals and groups to demean, exclude, exploit and violate the rights of others to secure a privilege or dominance over them. King’s greatness as a historical figure emanates from many aspects of his philosophy and example. His “Beloved Community” was the image of a community of cooperation and respect for all. He vigorously eschewed the notion that some are more entitled or more privileged than others. He gave his life to the idea that the least of us is deserving of love, respect, and equality. The goal of establishing such a community remains a worthy one. However, today, our nation is unabashedly replete with demands of privilege: economic privilege, racial privilege, social privilege, individual privilege. Social and economic inequality, many may assert, are the natural and preferred order. They may express scorn for those who would offer a more humane approach in the vein of King’s Beloved Community and depict them as unknowing and irrelevant, cowardly and envious. Loud voices calling for acceptance of inequality, poverty, brutish exclusion and racial domination are often amplified by the silent nods of some and the indifference of others.
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