 Former Dean and current Faculty
Social Justice Education Program
School of Education
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, Massachusetts
Bailey Jackson has a national reputation for his innovative models of Black Identity Development and of Multicultural Organizational Development. Dr. Jackson brings to SJE his years of experience with National Training Laboratories and with experiential education, and his background in human relations and education, and psychological education. He is nationally known for his writing and consulting on multicultural organizational behavior and development theory and practice. Dr. Jackson attracted a group of faculty and doctoral students with whom he created the Social Issues Training Program (1970’s and 80’s) and was the prime mover in establishing the graduate Social Justice Education concentration (1991 to present). He conducts many consultancies for schools, school systems and college campuses on issues of diversity and multicultural organization development. He was Associate Dean (1987-90), Director of Teacher Education (1988-89) and then Dean (1990-2002) of Education at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and has built powerful collaborative networks with stakeholders in educational change in the Commonwealth. He is co-author of New Perspectives on Racial Identity Development (NYU Press, 2001) and PI for a major Title II grant for urban schools in Massachusetts. |
