Expert:
Dr. MaryBeth Gasman
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education
University of Pennsylvania

Credentials:

• Dr. Gasman is an expert in historically black colleges and universities, diversity and higher education, as well as African-American educational leadership.
• As a historian of higher education, Dr. Gasman’s research explores philanthropy and historically black colleges, fundraising issues at black colleges and African-American giving.
• She authored “Envisioning Black Colleges: A History of the United Negro College Fund” and can discuss if HBCUs are still necessary today.

Merging of Black Colleges in Mississippi?

40th Anniversary of “Sesame Street”

2010 U.S. Census

Philadelphia Transit Strike

Catholic Diocese of Wilmington Bankruptcy

Youth Violence: Chicago and Nationwide

Same-Sex Marriage in Washington, D.C.

Parenting

60th Anniversary of the People’s Republic of China

Medical Malpractice Suits and Medical Costs

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