Clemson’s Lamont Flowers wins W.E.B. Dubois Higher Education Award

Published: December 2, 2009

CLEMSON — A Clemson University education professor won the W.E.B. Dubois Higher Education Award at the 37^th annual conference of the National Alliance of Black School Educators in Indianapolis.

The award went to Lamont A. Flowers, Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership and executive director of the Charles H. Houston Center for the Study of the Black Experience in Education at Clemson University. He teaches in the Eugene T. Moore School of Education at Clemson.

The W.E.B. Dubois Higher Education Award is given to individuals or organizations that are actively promoting or advocating higher education for African Americans through research, instruction, funding/scholarships, guidance and counseling.

Flowers has authored or co-authored 80 scholarly publications pertaining to the educational experiences and outcomes of African-Americans from pre-kindergarten through college; diversity issues in education; and organizational and leadership issues in education. He has served as principal or co-principal investigator on research and program grants exceeding $1 million.

“I am humbled to receive this prestigious award named after a prolific scholar and dedicated human rights advocate,” Flowers said after the Nov. 21 conference.

The National Alliance of Black School Educators is a national non-profit organization devoted to furthering the academic success for the nation’s children, particularly children of African descent. The organization is dedicated to improving both the educational experiences and accomplishments of African-American youth through the development and use of instructional and motivational methods that increase levels of inspiration, attendance and overall achievement.

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