BIOGRAPHY |
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Dr. Kenneth A. Jordan received the Ph.D. in Urban Geography with an emphasis on Urban and Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley in 1976. He came to university in 1989 as an Associate Professor of Public Administration where he remained until 1998. He was Professor and Director of the MPA program from 1991 to 1998. He is currently a Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. His research interests are Urban and Community Development, Affirmative Action, Human Rights, Housing and Social Justice. His most recent publications are: The Presidential and Congressional Documents on the First African-American Holiday: National Freedom Day; with Hanes Walton, et. al. Accepted for publication by the Journal of Negro History and should appear in Volume 85, # 3, edition, 2002. Also authored three essays in The Malcolm X Encyclopedia, edited by Robert Jenkins and Mfanya Donald Tryman; Greenwood Press, 2002 |