Shubuta native speaks during Library Week

By Staff
special to The Star
May 8, 2004
JACKSON RoSusan D. Bartee recently addressed the administration, faculty, staff and student body of Tougaloo College during Humanities Festival sponsored by the L. Zenobia Coleman Library.
The convocation occurred during National Library Week to promote the importance of knowledge, as gained through reading and learning. The theme, "Reflections of Spirit: Reliving a Legacy through the Arts," spoke to different ways of expressing past developments from cultural perspectives.
Bartee's speech highlighted findings from a book she co-authored with M. Christopher Brown II, "The Broken Cisterns of Brown v. Board of Education: Fifty years of progress and decline in African American Education."
The book examines the effects of desegregation for blacks in academic settings.
Bartee is senior research associate and program manager with the Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute of the United Negro College Fund in Fairfax, Va. She also is responsible for programmatic and administrative duties.
Before coming to the research center, Bartee was the project coordinator of the Summer Research Opportunities Program Research Project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The research project examined the implications of sponsorship programs on the academic success of minorities in higher education.
Bartee's current research interests are related to equity and access in secondary and post-secondary institutions.
A former Institute of Governmental Affairs program fellow and Illinois Consortium Education Opportunities program fellow, Bartee received a doctorate in educational policy studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May 2003.
She received a master's degree in 1998 from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., and a bachelor's degree in English from Tougaloo College in 1997.
A native of Shubuta, Bartee is a 1993 high honor graduate of Quitman High School, former Clarke County Junior Miss and second runner-up and Panel Evaluation Award Recipient in the Mississippi's Junior Miss Program.
She is the daughter of Howard and Dorothy Bartee Sr.