Developing Pathways To Success
Mission Statement
Center for Leadership, Development, and Research has a four-fold mission:
- Identify the critical problems facing Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU’s), Minority Serving Institutions (MSI’s), Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCU’s), national organizations; and develop creative solutions to address the broad range of educational, social, cultural, health and technological issues/needs; and to help these Institutions create Transformative Development Plans to enhance their physical facilities.
- Serve as a catalyst to facilitate academic Research that expands the boundaries of educational experiences; develop more culturally diverse faculty, staff, administrators at HBCU’s, MSI’s, TCU’s, and community-based organizations.
- Maintain a Resource Network of scholars to serve as expert consultants in critical problem resolution; and facilitate important discussions among opinion leaders and policymakers about pertinent national and international issues.
- Provide a vehicle through which former college presidents, corporate executives and organization leaders can remain professionally engaged. The CLDR Team identifies situations where these distinguished administrators/professors serve as lead researchers, Institute faculty, and expert consultants to HBCU’s, MSI’s, TCU’s, or national organizations.