Editors Meet

April 18, 2005 Issue

The 55th annual Board of Editors Conference of The Negro Educational Review (NER) was held earlier this month at the University of Pittsburgh. Left, attending the April 1 luncheon in the William Pitt Union were (front row, from left) Jere Gallagher, associate dean in Pitt’s School of Education; conference cochair Shirley Biggs, Pitt associate professor of education and NER executive associate editor; and conference cochair Alice Scales, Pitt professor of education and NER executive associate editor. In the back row, from left, are Jerome Taylor, Pitt associate professor of Africana studies and executive director of the Center for Family Excellence; Mac A. Stewart, vice provost of minority affairs at Ohio State University and NER editor in chief; F.C. Richardson, chancellor emeritus of Indiana University Southeast and NER chair of the board; Pitt School of Education Dean Alan Lesgold; and Pitt-Bradford President Livingston Alexander. Taylor, keynote speaker at the luncheon, delivered remarks titled “Closing the Racial Achievement Gap through Community Empowerment: Pitfalls, Pratfalls, and Opportunities.” Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg delivered Greetings at the conference’s kickoff breakfast. At right, he is pictured with Biggs, Scales, and Richardson.