Darron Smith: Vita

Originally posted on DarronSmith.com on 2004-09-07

DARRON T. SMITH
Provo, UT
84606
Email: [email protected]

EDUCATION

Doctoral Candidate. University of Utah, school of education, the department of education, culture, & society. Program emphasis: civil rights, critical race theory, multicultural education, affirmative action and organizational communication.

M.Ed. Higher Education, 2000. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

PA-C. Physician Assistant Certification Program, 1996. University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah.

BSH. Behavioral Science and Health, 1994 University of Utah.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Consultant to Dean of School of Education, Brigham Young University, 2004. Responsibilities include:

· Develop and implement diversity brown bag series for teacher education faculty on various topics to improve the quality of teaching and preparing prospective teachers for working with a diverse student body

· Create and implement a scholarship program for underrepresented minority students at BYU who want to be public school educators

· Established recruitment measures designed to attract more underrepresented students of color interested in public education

· Organized fiftieth anniversary commemoration of Brown in the school of education.

Consultant to Assistant Vice President of Faculty Affairs, Utah Valley College, 2003, 2004. Responsibilities include:

· Establish a college wide honor society program to recognize high achieving undergraduates (Phi Kappa Phi and Golden Key)

· Create and institute a marketing system designed to attract minority faculty in various disciplines on campus.

· Organize and implement space for adjunct faculty

· Diversity coach for faculty and president office

· Mediate disputes between faculty, staff and students

Assistant to the Vice President of Academics, Utah Valley State College, 2002. Responsibilities include:

• Promote diversity on campus whenever wherever needed especially by assisting academic departments with faculty searches and hires.
• Assist vice president with increasing representation of diverse faculty in all departments on campus.
• Serve as a diversity specialist and liaison between the vice presidents office and the general campus and faculty.
• Represent the vice president of academic at various functions
• Budgeting for college events

Contributing Editor, Southern Christian Leadership Conference Magazine. 2003- a civil rights organization created by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Responsible for the editorial content of the magazine.

Column Editor, for “Cultural Care Issues for Physician Assistants” Advance Magazine for Physician Assistants. January 1999, 2002

Adjunct Faculty, Utah Valley State College. 2002- Responsible for the following preparations:

College of Education
DE 332 Foundations of Education

Behavioral Science
BS 3200 Race and Minority Relations
BS 113 Multicultural America

History
HIST 417R American Issues & Topics: The African American Experience

Communication
COMM 350 R Special Topics: Mormon Cultural Studies
COMM 100 Introduction to Public Speaking

Adjunct Faculty Brigham Young University. Responsible for the following preparations:

General Honors and Education 1995, 2002
HONRS 230R The African American Experience

David O’ McKay School of Education, Secondary Education 2000, 2002, 2004
SEC ED 113 Multicultural Education
SEC ED 326 Social Foundations of Education

Adjunct Faculty of Sociology Department, Brigham Young University. 2001,2002, 2003, 2004. Responsible for the following preparations:
SOC 323 Race and Ethnic Minority Relations
SOC 326 Sociology of Education
SOC 113 Multicultural America
SOC 111 Introduction to Sociology
SOC 112 Social Problems

Adjunct Faculty of the Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Utah Physician Assistant Program. 1997. Responsible for the following preparation.

FPM 552 African American Health Care Issues

Adjunct Faculty Family Consumer Studies, Ethnic Studies Program, University of Utah. 1994,1995. Responsible for the following preparations:
FCS 564 Understanding Youth Gangs
ETHNC 3910 Understanding Youth Gangs

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

“Using Critical Pedagogy to Fight against Religious Racism in a Conservative Context”: Crossroads 2004 in Cultural Studies, Fifth International Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 25, 2004

“Race and Meritocracy: White Supremacy at a Religious Institution of Higher Learning”: Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State University, March 25, 2004

“African Americans in Mormonism: 25 years since”: Mormon History Association. Kirtland Ohio May 5, 2003.

“Stepping in the Right Direction”: Mormon History Association. Tucson Arizona April 17, 2002

“The clinical management of obesity”: Knoll Pharmaceuticals Obesity Seminar. Marriott Hotel, March 8 1996.

“The future of medical allied health occupations”: University of Utah School of Medicine April 1997.

“Managing obesity in family practice”: Obesity Symposia. Aspen Colorado May 1998

“Race and Clinical medicine: Communication is an art”: National Physician Assistant Conference. Salt Lake City. May 1999.

PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS AND ACADEMIC WORKS

Smith Darron T., Bringhurst, Newell G. (an edited book in preparation due for release October 2004) Black and Mormon forthcoming by University of Illinois Press.

40 years later, the dream is not yet fulfilled: Moving Toward a New Social Rights agenda
Southern Christian Leadership Conference Magazine. Vol 32 no. 4, (Contributing Editor, Fall Issue 2003)

Assaulting Our Own: Why do we denigrate one another instead of uniting for social justice? Southern Christian Leadership Conference Magazine. Vol 33 no. 5, (Winter 2004)

Cultivating Cultural Competency
Advance Magazine. Vol 8 Issue 5, (January 4, 2000)

What Matters Most: A Guide Towards Improving Sensitivity (June 2000)
Scribe Publishing. Salt Lake City, UT

Our Efforts Can Have an Impact of Troubled Youth
Advance Magazine. Vol 13 Issue 8, (August 2, 1999)

Understanding Race: A Clinical Perspective
Advance Magazine. Vol 7 Issue 1, (January 4, 1999)

Clinical Care: African American Male Health
Advance Magazine. Vol 10 Issue 4, (April 2, 1999)

What Matters Most: A Story of Human Potential, (March 12, 1999)
Scribe Publishing. Salt Lake City

RESEARCH INTERESTS

College Students Perception of Race and Normality on Predominately White campuses.

Popular Culture and the Formation of Race and Representation in a Global Context

Racial Perceptions of Black Health Practitioners in U.S. Health Care.

White Teachers Perceptions of Race

Race and Medicine in the Antebellum Period

MEMBERSHIP IN ACADEMIC SOCIETIES

American Sociological Association
American Academy of Physician Assistants

ADDITIONAL CERTIFICATION

Utah Dispute Resolution, Utah bar /Conflict Mediator

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Co-Director “Voices and Views of Black America,” Utah Valley State College, 2003.
General Education and Diversity Committee, Utah Valley State College, 2003.
Martin Luther King Jr. Committee, Utah Valley State College, 2004.
Director “Celebrating our Heritage,” Utah Valley State College, 2004.
Co-Director “Brown” Seminar, David O’ McKay School of Education, Brigham Young University, May 2004.