Square Pegs and Round Holes (PDF)

Fred A. Bonner II is professor and endowed chair of educational leadership and counseling in the Whitlowe R. Green College of Education at Prairie View A&M University. He also serves as the founding executive director and chief scientist of the Minority Achievement Creativity and High Ability (MACH-III) Center. His research foci illuminate the experiences of academically gifted African American males across the P-20 pipeline, diverse faculty in academe, and diverse populations in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). He is coeditor of two books with Stylus Publishing, Building on Resilience: Models and Frameworks of Black Male Success Across the P-20 Pipeline (2014) and Diverse Millennials Students in College: Implications for Faculty and Student Affairs (2011). Bonner is currently developing a theoretical framework, mascusectionality, that will explore the engagements of Black men. Rosa M. Banda, PhD, is assistant professor of educational leadership at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Formerly, Banda was a research associate to the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Chair in Education in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University. Banda earned her PhD in higher education administration and human resource development from Texas A&M University-College Station. A critical social justice advocate, Banda's primary research interests include high achieving Latinas in engineering, gifted poor students of color, faculty diversity, and qualitative research. Stella L. Smith, PhD, is the associate director for the Minority Achievement, Creativity and High-Ability (MACH-III) Center and an adjunct instructor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling at Prairie View A&M University. A qualitative researcher, her scholarly interests focus on the experiences of faculty and administrators of color in higher education; African American females in leadership in higher education; access and inclusion of underserved populations in higher