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Clement Alexander Price is Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor, Professor of History, and Director of the Rutgers Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University, Newark Campus. He received the BA and MA degrees from the University of Bridgeport, and the Ph.D. from Rutgers University. He has served as visiting professor at Princeton University, the New Jersey City University, Montclair State University, and Fairleigh Dickenson University.
A native of Washington, D.C., Dr. Price teaches undergraduate and graduate courses that span American history, including the Development of the United States, Afro-American History, Civil War and
Reconstruction, Intellectual History of Afro-America, Topics in the History of Newark, New Jersey, United States Urban History, History of the Civil Rights Movement, Memory and History, Senior Seminar in History,
The Black Experience in Western Civilization, Paul Robeson and 20th Century Black Modernism, and Modern America, Problems and Issues in Afro-American History, and Public History.
Dr. Price is the author of
many publications that explore Afro-American History, race relations and modern culture in the United States and in New Jersey, including two books Freedom Not Far Distant: A Documentary History of Afro-Americans in
New Jersey and Many Voices, Many Opportunities: Cultural Pluralism and American Arts Policy. His essay, Been So Long: A Critique of the Process That Shaped “Victory to Freedom: Afro-American Life in the Fifties,
appears in Kenneth L. Ames, Barbara Franco and L. Thomas Frye, Ideas and Images: Developing Interpretive History Exhibits. His introductory essay “Race, Blackness and the Renaissance” will appear in the forthcoming
Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance. He served as the chief historical consultant for the Jewish Museum’s 1992 exhibition Bridges and Boundaries: African Americans and American Jews and for the 1998 award winning
documentary film Chanceman’s Brothers & Sisters: The Origins of the 20th Century Morris County Black Community. Currently, he is the consulting historian on Tom Guy, Jr.’s forthcoming film on the Bordentown
School for Colored Youth. He is completing a study of Afro-American cultural and social history in 20th century Newark, New Jersey, and a biography of Dr. Marion Thompson Wright, a pioneering historian of New Jersey
race relations.
Dr. Price served as the chairman and historical consultant for the New Jersey Performing Arts Center’s World Festival II-Inventing America: Memory, Work, and Spirit/A Festival of Pan African
America in 1998-99. He is the consulting historian for the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority’s forthcoming public arts and history project, the Civil Rights Garden at the historic Carnegie Library in
Atlantic City, New Jersey. It opened in the fall of 2001. He also served as member of the New Jersey Governor’s Advisory Committee on the Preservation and Use of Ellis Island and is now a member of the Board of
Trustees for Save Ellis Island! Inc.
Dr. Price is the recipient of numerous academic and service awards and honors, including the Richard J. Hughes Award from the New Jersey Historical Commission and the
Governor’s Alice B. Paul Award for Humanitarian Service. He is also the recipient of four teaching awards, including Teacher of the Year, Essex County College, 1969; Outstanding Teacher of the Year, Rutgers
University, Newark College of Arts and Sciences, 1977; Henry J. Browne Outstanding Teacher of the Year, Rutgers University, University College, 1991; Rutgers University’s highest award for teaching, the Warren I.
Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching, in 1991, and he is the 1999 New Jersey Professor of the Year, so designated by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He holds an honorary degree for
his work as a public intellectual from William Paterson University and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Bridgeport.
A past chairman of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Dr. Price is currently president of the Board of Trustees of the Fund for New Jersey and the former Vice President of the Advisory Board for the Newark Public Schools. In 1981, he co-founded, with Giles R. Wright, the annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series, a scholarly conference series held during Black History Month at Rutgers-Newark. He serves as director of the Series. On November 9, 1997, at Rutgers-Newark, he mounted the first major program of the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience, titled Memory and Newark, July 1967, which acknowledged in a public forum the memories of a cross-section of citizens who witnessed the Newark riots of more than thirty years ago.
During the 2001-2001 academic year, Dr. Price is the scholar-in-residence at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
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Rob Baird, Director
of School-University Partnerships at Woodrow Wilson is nationally known for his expertise in connecting K-12 education with colleges and universities,” said Robert Weisbuch, President of the Woodrow Wilson
Foundation. “He brings a wealth of experience in an area that’s increasingly vital to our Foundation—indeed, vital to the nation. Woodrow Wilson builds educational bridges, and Dr. Baird has been doing just
that in K-16 for more than a decade. He is a great colleague and leader for our efforts in that area.”
Baird will have responsibility for program development and evaluation in the area of school-university
partnerships, and will provide management direction for several of the Foundation’s programs in teacher training and development.
He will assess the effectiveness of a range of Woodrow Wilson programs that engage K-12 teachers and administrators and explore educational and curricular policy from the elementary through the baccalaureate level. Together, these programs promote efforts in which faculty and staff of schools, colleges, and cultural organizations work together to address important intellectual issues facing all students.
Baird holds a Ph.D. in religion from Duke University and a master’s degree in psychology from Duquesne University. Prior to his four-year presidency of the National Faculty, he worked with that
organization for nine years in various capacities, including Director of Academic Administration, Vice President for Development, and Senior Vice President.
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