Research Experience

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Scott, D. (2017). Developing the prison-to-school pipeline: A paradigmatic shift in educational possibilities during an age of mass incarceration. Journal of Correctional Education, 68(3).

Scott, D. (2016). Recruiting and retaining African American male administrators at predominantly White Institutions. Urban Education Research and Policy Annuals, 4(1), 39-46.

Scott, D, & Hines, R. (2014). Rethinking and reframing leadership of historically Black colleges and universities: A distributed perspective. Creative Education, 5(13), 1132-1139.

Books

Fronczek, W., Gray, S., Hannon, T., Hayes, T., Jenkins, J., Mackey, L., Madi-McCarthey, S., Scott, D. (2020). Strategies for College Success: Engage. Persist. Graduate. COL-101. Plymouth, MI: Macmillan Learning Curriculum Solutions.

Book Chapters

Seo, B., Scott, D.., & E. Petchuaer, E. (2017). Becoming a Black institution: Refining teacher education through demographic changes. In E. Petchauer & L. Mawhinney (Eds.), Teacher education across minority-serving institutions: Programs, policies, and social justice. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Book Reviews

Scott, D. (2017). A Nation Can Rise No Higher Than Its Women: African Muslim Women in the Movement for Black Self-Determination, 1950-1975, by Bayyinah S. Jefferies. Latham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014, 173 pp., $85.00 hardback.

Selected Editorial Articles

Scott, D. (2017, August). Black Feminism is Not Your Enemy. Abernathy Magazine.
https://abernathymagazine.com/black-feminism-is-not-your-enemy/

Scott, D. (2017, March). An Improved Society through Better Masculinities. The Good Men Project.
https://goodmenproject.com/social-justice-2/an-improved-society-through…

Scott, D. (2016). What I Learned Teaching Black Men at the Cook County Jail in Chicago.
Abernathy Magazine. https://abernathymagazine.com/teaching-black-men-at-cook-county-jail-in…

Selected Conference Presentations

Khan, S., Nagle, R., & Scott, D. “Evaluation of a Pilot Program to Restrict Online Withdrawal in Gateway Courses,” presented at the National Symposium on Student Retention, Destin, Florida, November 7, 2017

Scott, D. “March Madness, May Sadness: Enhancing the Educational Success of Black Male Student Athletes,” presented at the 14th Annual Males of Color Empowerment and Retention Conference, Baltimore, MD, October 27, 2016

Humbles, A., & Scott, D, “Advancing Student Achievement Through Peer-Mentoring and Financial Literacy Instruction,” presented at League for Innovation in the Community College’s National Conference, Chicago, IL, March 20, 2016.

Scott, D. “A Phenomenological Examination of Black Male Leadership in Higher Education,” presented at 4 the Center for Scholastic Inquiry 2015 Fall International Academic Research Conference, Charleston, SC, October 28, 2015

Humbles, A., & Scott, D. “From Senior to Freshman: Easing Transitions Through Mentoring and Leadership,” presented at the 22nd National Conference on Students in Transition, Baltimore, MD, October 17, 2015.

Scott, D. “Exploring Black Female Leadership in Higher Education” accepted for presentation at the 2015 Black Doctoral Network Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 9, 2015

Scott, L., & Scott, D. “Understanding Today’s HBCUs through Student Perspectives, Enrollment Trends, and Leadership Models,” accepted for presentation at the Association for the Study of African American Life and History 2015 Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, September 25, 2015.

Scott, D. “Leading Ladies: An Examination of Black Female Administrators in Higher Education,” accepted for presentation at the Association for the Study of African American Life and History 2015 Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, September 24, 2015.

Scott, D. “From Inmate to In-Class: Critical Pedagogy Aimed at Curtailing Recidivism,” to be presented at the 2015 Critical Race Studies in Education Association Conference, Nashville, TN, May 29, 2015.

Scott, D. “Prison-to-School Pipeline: Critically Examining Formal Education Among Black Ex-Offenders, to be presented at the Northwestern Black Graduate Student Association’s 17th
Annual Graduate Research Conference, Evanston, IL, April 24, 2015.

Scott, D. “Diversifying Academic Leadership: Targeting Black Males as Presidents of Predominantly White Institutions,” accepted for presentation at the American Association of Blacks in Higher Education Conference, Charleston, SC, April 9, 2015.

Scott, D. “Educating the Uneducable: Teaching at an Adult High School for Formerly Incarcerated High School Dropouts,” presented at the Midwest Association of Teacher Educators Conference, Lafayette, IN, March 27, 2015.

Scott, D. “Black Men at the Helm: African American Male Presidents of Predominantly White Colleges and Universities,” presented at the National Council for Black Studies Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, March 11, 2015.

Scott, D. “Successfully Preparing Low-Income, Underserved, Minority College Students for Careers in Teaching: An Urban University’s Practices,” presented at the Illinois Association for Teacher Educator’s Annual Meeting, Peoria, IL, November 7, 2014.