Identity area
Type of entity
Person
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Lee, Mary Jo Benton
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History
Education:
Ph.D. in Sociology, 1998
South Dakota State University M.A. in Journalism, 1976
University of Maryland B.S. in Journalism, 1975
Adjunct Professor Dr. Lee worked for five years as a newspaper reporter in the Washington, D.C. area, covering issues ranging from urban hunger to teen pregnancy. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology, with a minor in Asian studies, from South Dakota State University. During her 25 years at SDSU, she has held a number of positions, both teaching and administrative, most recently that of diversity coordinator for the College of Engineering. She is also the co-founder and the coordinator of the SDSU-Flandreau Indian School Success Academy, an early and intensive college preparatory program for American Indian high school students. She has been an exchange professor and visiting scholar at Yunnan Normal University, People's Republic of China.
Dr. Lee's first book was Ethnicity, Education and Empowerment: How Minority Students in Southwest China Construct Identities. Her second book is Ethnicity Matters: Rethinking How Black, Hispanic and Indian Students Prepare for and Succeed in College.