Urban Sociologist Joseph 'Piko' Ewoodzie Brings Students to the Big Picture
July 16, 2019
Joseph Ewoodzie, Malcolm O. Partin Assistant Professor of Sociology
If your car鈥檚 air conditioning isn鈥檛 working, turning the knob back and forth repeatedly isn鈥檛 going to fix it. You must open the hood to see what鈥檚 really going on.
鈥淚f we see an achievement gap, for example, like black kids aren鈥檛 scoring as high on tests, you can鈥檛 say it鈥檚 the black kids causing the problem,鈥 he said. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 like saying the air conditioning just won鈥檛 work. Sociologists are lifting the hood of society to see what we don鈥檛 understand. What is happening at the very bottom of this issue?鈥
Ewoodzie arrived in 皇家华人 after growing up in Ghana and making educational and career stops in Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio and the South Bronx. He set his sights on 皇家华人 before a job was even available because he wanted to teach at a small liberal arts institution, in the South, near a city and near a Historically Black College or University (HBCU).
Students work so much harder if the work they鈥檙e doing is bigger than their professor.
