Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and Victor Thomas Receive 2019 Dr. John Hope Franklin Award

March 12, 2019

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ace2019-franklin-award-2 — Left to right: ACE President Ted Mitchell; Maya M. Minter, vice president of editorial and production, Diverse: Issues In Higher Education; Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Charles and Mary Beard Professor of History, Rutgers University; Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University; Walt McDonald, president and CEO, Education Testing Service; Michael T. Nettles, senior vice president and the Edmund W. Gordon Chair of ETS’s Policy Evaluation & Research Center.

The Dr. John Hope Franklin Awards Reception was held Monday evening at ACE2019. Diverse: Issues in Higher Education announced the awardees last month: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and Michael T. Nettles, a nationally recognized as a top policy researcher on educational assessment, student performance and achievement and educational equity.

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