The End of the Pipeline at the Millennium: Using Stories from New African American Attorneys to Inform Theories of Intervention
The End of the Pipeline at the Millennium: Using Stories from New African American Attorneys to Inform Theories of Intervention
Study supported by Penn State's Africana Research Center, Dorothy Evensen, Principal Investigator
This project is designed to capture individual stories of African Americans who have successfully navigated the pipeline to the legal profession, and, through analysis and synthesis of data, identify social and academic factors that contribute to or impede African American students' chances of reaching the end of the pipeline. This work aims at constructing a grounded theory of interventions aimed at both widening and stopping the leakage in the P-20 pipeline for African American students. Collaborators on this project include faculty and staff from the Educational Policy Department and the Dickinson School of Law. Results of this project will be presented at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools being held in San Diego, CA in January 2009.

