Tryan L. McMickens

Tryan L. McMickens serves as an Associate Professor of Higher Education and Program Coordinator of the M.S. in Higher Education Administration Program at North Carolina Central University (NCCU). NCCU is an exceptional Historically Black College and University (HBCU) with an innovative higher education graduate program. Located in the Research Triangle, NCCU is the first public liberal arts institution for Black Americans in the United States and it is one of 17 campuses that constitute the University of North Carolina System. Dr. McMickens was awarded over $200,000 in fellowship awards from the Bill and Melinda Gates Millennium Scholars Program and his funded research portfolio exceeds $30,000. His research focuses on race, class, and gender in education; teaching and learning in U.S. higher education; and qualitative inquiries in education research. Equity and justice are central to much of his scholarship. His work applies qualitative methods, and he has extensive experience using the various traditions in qualitative research. In 2013, the University of Pennsylvania awarded him the Early Career/Alumni Award of Merit. Prior to joining the faculty at NCCU, he spent four years as an Assistant Director of the National Black Male College Achievement Study, Assistant Director of the Grad Prep Academy, and Doctoral Research Assistant to Dr. Shaun R. Harper in the Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Before Penn, he served in various project management, student affairs, development, and fundraising roles at Harvard Medical School, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Tuskegee University, and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. Several organizations have praised his research and leadership including Suffolk University (2020 College of Arts and Sciences Racial Equity Champion Faculty Award; 2016 Dean John Brennan Award for Outstanding Graduate Instruction), Phi Delta Kappa International (2012 Emerging Leader; 2011 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award), NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (2012 Network for Educational Equity and Ethnic Diversity Award; 2011 Melvene D. Hardee Runner Up Dissertation of the Year Award) and the American Educational Research Association (2012 Finalist for Dissertation of the Year Award). He has been featured or quoted in Education Week, The Chronicle of Higher Education, U.S. News and World Report, and other media outlets. Dr. McMickens sailed around the world and developed cross-cultural and global exposure in 14 countries with the Semester at Sea program. He holds an educational doctorate in higher education from the University of Pennsylvania. He earned a master’s degree in administration of higher education from Suffolk University and bachelor’s degrees in sales & marketing and business administration from Tuskegee University.

Publications

Perspectives From a Black Male HESA Professor at an HBCU and a HWCU
Perspectives From a Black Male HESA Professor at an HBCU and a HWCU
Tryan L. McMickens. © 2023. 11 pages.
A Black male higher education professor will share his experiences as a faculty leader engaged in teaching, research, and service in a public comprehensive Historically Black...