Dr. Earl R. Jones Associate Professor of African-American Studies  Associate Professor of Public and Enviromental Affairs (School of Public and Environmental Affairs)

   e-mail:  ejones@iun.edu

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Education | Teaching Expertise | Courses Taught | Research | Office Hours | Web Links

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• Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - 1980

• African American Studies
• Race-Ethnic Studies
• Urban Policy/Affairs
• Community Development and Change Dynamics
• Social Policy Planning and the Planning Process

• Minority People in the United States
• Poverty in America
• Community Development and Planning
• The Black Family
• The Planning Process - School of Public and Environmental Affairs

Project Director and Principle Investigator - IUN Department of Minority Studies Enviromental Justice Partnership, funded by the U.S. Enviromental Protection Agency for $271,000.00.  Part of the grant is to establish an Environmental Resource Center.  The center will work with the local public schools to educate students about environmental hazards in their communities.

    Research in Progress

Topic:  Transformation, Poverty and African American Children. This research examines the basis of transformation in American society, its impact on poverty, the impact on African American children.  The paper focuses on improving the lives of African American children and provides a quasi experimental pre-test/post-test case study analysis of an initiative to improve the conditions of Afican American children in a changing environment.  Several preliminary observations regarding programming to improve the lives of African American children in light of transformation, and a changing environment are suggested.  This is the second year of the anticipated five year study.

• BSU - The Black Student Union
• Minority Studies Event Pictorial

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Minority Studies Home Page

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