LAURENCE J PARKER portrait
  • Professor, Educational Leadership&Policy
  • Department Chair, Educational Leadership&Policy
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Professional Service

  • Race Ethnicity & Education. Role: Associate editor. Review manuscripts on a regular basis. Provide assistance to the editor. 03/01/2020 - 03/01/2022
  • The Urban Review. Role: Editorial board member. Review manuscripts. 01/2019 - 12/2022
  • Race Ethnicity & Education. Role: Editorial board member. Reviewer of Manuscripts and editorial board member. 01/2019 - 12/2021
  • American Educational Research Association. Proposal Reviewer. 08/01/2018 - 01/19/2019
  • Colorado University-Boulder. Role: External reviewer. Review-School of education. 03/05/2014 - 03/07/2014
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison. Role: Chair. External Review team of the EPS Department at Univ. of Wisconsin Madison. 09/25/2013 - 09/27/2013
  • American Educational Research Association. Role: Associate Editor. Associate Editor for American Educational Research Journal. 07/01/2013 - 06/2015
  • National Education Policy Board. Member and co-chair of government relations subcommittee. 01/01/2011 - present
  • Race Ethnicity & Education (journal). review manuscripts as editorial board member. 01/01/2009 - 12/31/2011
  • Qualitative Inquiry. Editorial board member. 01/2008 - 12/2021

Internal Service

  • Department Chair. 07/01/2021 - 06/30/2024. Department service.
  • Co-chair of Black faculty & staff action committee at Univ. of Utah. co-chair, 02/01/2016 - 12/31/2016. University service.
  • Member of Senior VP for academic affairs reading group on college retention. member, 01/29/2016 - 12/30/2016. University service.
  • College RPT Committee. Chair, 11/2014 - 12/2014. College service.
  • Academic Senate-Consolidated Hearing Committee. member, 11/2014 - 12/2014. University service.
  • Faculty mentor for summer bridge program for community college students. Faculty mentor, 06/03/2014 - 06/07/2014. University service.
  • RPT committee. Chair, 11/14/2013 - 12/05/2013. College service.
  • Member of Univ. of Utah campus climate diversity committee. Member, 11/2013 - present. University service.
  • Member of Campus Diversity committee charged by Univ. of Utah faculty senate. member, 08/2013 - present. University service.
  • Director of Graduate Studies. Coordinator, 07/01/2013 - 06/30/2014. Department service.
  • Co-chair of ELP Department search committee. co-chair, 01/2013 - 05/2013. Department service.
  • Continuing work on promotion & tenure revising guidelines. Serving as co-chair of ELP search committee for assistant professor on community colleges. co-chair, 11/01/2012 - present. Department service.
  • Member of faculty-senate and Office of Equity & Diversity task force on campus diversity strategic plan. Member, 10/01/2012 - 04/30/2013. University service.
  • ELP Search for assistant professor in higher eduction & community colleges. co-chair, 10/01/2012 - 02/28/2013. Department service.
  • Search Committee-K-12 faculty position at assistant professor leval. Member, 09/30/2012 - 02/28/2013. Department service.
  • Black Intellectual Roundtable on "Black Enrollment and Advancement in higher education, Union Building-Panorama room. Speaker and facilitator. Speaker & facilitator, 02/10/2011 - present. University service.
  • Working on committee to revise ELP Department promotion and tenure guidelines. 02/01/2011 - present. Department service.
  • Diversity committee for College of Education strategic plan. sub-committee co-chair, 09/28/2010 - 12/14/2010. College service.

Community Partnership

  • Recruitment/admissions in local high schools for the Honors College. 09/01/2020 - 01/15/2021

Outreach

  • Speaking to the AVID and Gear Up groups at East high school and West high school. Speaking to Latinos in Action at various high schools and Latino parent night at Alta High School. 10/01/2018 - 11/02/2018
  • Serving for Honors College and University of Utah office of admissions to recruit diverse undergraduate students to come to the University of Utah. 07/2018 - 06/2021
  • Participated in Black Leadership Academy sponsored by office of student services and office of equity & diversity. This was an college preparation session for African American juniors and seniors in the Salt Lake City area high schools. 06/28/2012 - 06/30/2012

Honors & Awards

  • 2023 Awarded the Linda Tillman Race and Social Justice Award, University Council for Educational Administration. University Council for Educational Administration, 11/17/2023
  • AERA Fellow. American Educational Research Association, 07/03/2021
  • Distinguished Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Mentor Award. University of Utah, 03/21/2021
  • Derrick Bell Legacy Award. Critical Race Studies in Education Association, 05/28/2013
  • Latino-Latina Studies Program Acevedo award for commitment to students. University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2010
  • Service for Editorship of the Review of Research in Education, vols. 29 & 31. American Educational Research Association, 2007

Affiliations

  • National Education Policy Center (NEPC), member, 09/24/2010 - present
  • American Educational Research Association (AERA), member, 2010 - 2011

In the Media

  • KQED radio broadcast from the Hinckley Institute on the University of Utah on the proposed change in the Utah constitution on the equal rights anti-affirmative action proposal. 01/18/2011.