Community Based Research
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     With the transformation of our communities, so goes community-based research as a means to solving real problems and re-addressing social inequities. Community-based research can be a powerful tool in enabling residents to determine how and to what end research will be conducted within their community. Community-based research has not only proven to be good science, but often produces more useful, action-oriented results for the participating community.

     Since Morehouse College stands on the cutting edge of public policy and service delivery, the Emma & Joe Adams Public Service Institute will support faculty members who engage in community-based research by means of the Placement Model. Faculty from the various disciplines can engage students in community- based research for which a grade may be earned.

The Brisbane Institute

     The Brisbane Institute was founded in 1984 to honor Dr. Robert Brisbane as a permanent and lasting memorial to his career long work of research, publication, and public service. During its initial existence the Institute actively sponsored outreach programs seeking to "identify research (and) examine through forums and seminars, and to disseminate information about government and political problems that are most salient to the well-being of Black people in the south."

     Re-established in 1996, under the leadership of Dr. Hasan Crockett, the Institute concentrates on designing and implementing replicable model programs emphasizing political leadership and community-based research. These programs all focus on addressing the political and social needs the African American and larger communities.

     The mission of the Institute is to continue the tradition of leadership and political study, analysis, activism and international investigation that Dr. Brisbane brought to the College, the nation and the world.

The DuBois-King Center for Social Change and Research

     The DuBois-King Center for Social Change and Research, a program of the Brisbane Institute at Morehouse College, is founded to provide a forum for the examination of U.S. public policy in its impact of the larger African American Community and the African Diaspora. In the view of the Center, public policy must be examined from the perspective and needs of the grassroots and working class communities of Black America.

     Debate, critical examination, participatory research, analysis, discussion, public disclosure, sum-ups, reports, articles, etc. are needed in the present period of economic, social, and political uncertainty for oppressed communities today. The role and purpose of the Center’s work will be to facilitate the development of these forums of examination on critical issues facing the African American and oppressed communities.

The work of the DuBois-King Center includes:

    The Southern Regional Community Research Center (SRCRC)
    The Bonner Service-Learning Project
    A Community Based Think Tank

The Public Service Internship Program

     The public Service Internship Program provides Morehouse College and Atlanta University Center students with internships in non-profit organizations, NGOs, municipal, county, and state governments in preparation for careers in public service.

The Southern Center for Labor Education and Organizing (SCLEO)

     The Southern Center for Labor Education and Organizing is dedicated to building the Morehouse College Labor Studies Project with emphasis on establishing the pioneering degree granting labor studies program in the southern United States; developing program tackling problems of racism, sexism and organizing which confront the “working poor” in the Southeast; research on critical issues; worker schools’ publications; seminars and conferences

Contact Name/Information
Dr. Hasan Crockett, Director
404.681.2800 ext. 2254
hcrocket@morehouse.edu

Jaquenetta Dugger, Administrative Assistant
  404.681.2800 ext. 2535
jdugger@morehouse.edu

Jeff Ballard, Program Coordinator
jballard@morehouse.edu