SSSPAnnouncements LetterFrom the DivisionChair Call ForPapers Member Publications Submit to GraduateStudent Awards Submit to the Division session for 2022 annual meeting Photo Credit: Myron T. Strong Photo Credit: Myron T. Strong EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS Fall 2021 NEWSLETTER In this issue I With this in mind, I want to encourage everyone to submit to our sessions. The72nd annual conference is scheduled in person for Aug 5- 7 in Los Angeles, CA. The conference theme is Sociological Reimagination: From Moments toMomentum and I think it’s a theme tocapturing this moment in time. I am also excited to announce that the membership voted to create two new awards: a book award and a scholarship to the discipline award. I am excited about their creation and will email more about both in the spring. There are so many scholars who do outstanding workthat never get recognized, the moreoutlets to show appreciations and supportis positive for academia. This year, we welcomed a new social media coordinator Alannah Caisey, whodid a great job setting up a new Twitter and Facebook account and making sureboth are sustainable across the administrations. Please follow us on Twitter @EpSssp and SSSP-EducationalProblems Division on Facebook. I would also like to thank Lydia Hou for putting the newsletter together. As we transition to the new year, I want to wish you and your loved ones, a safe, healthy, joyous new year. As we go intothe new year, let’s be empowered by the immortal words of bell hooks: “The function of art is to do more than tell itlike it is – it’s to imagine what ispossible.” First off, thank you for voting medivision chair. I want to encourage allmembers to reach out with questionsor suggestions. As we transition to anew year, I seriously thought aboutthe direction of this letter. While it is tempting to restate all of the socialproblems and injustices, I would liketo focus on the ways our imaginationcan not only give us hope for a betterfuture but also feed creativeintelligence and problem solving. I am reminded of Ytasha Womack’sbook Afrofuturism: The World ofBlack Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture and how it tells us that if we want a better world, we have to be able to imagine it. Because if we can’t imagine it, we cannot take the agency to makechange. In that way, I am continuallyimpressed by the work of ourmembers in that much of it engages increative approaches and perspectiveswhich are fed by imagination.Wehave the agency to challenge systemsof oppression and the freedom not tobe defined by social positions or thosesaid systems The membership voted to createtwo new awards: a book award and a scholarship tothe discipline award if we want a better world, wehave to be able toimagine it. “The function of artis to do more thantell it like it is – it’sto imagine what ispossible.” understatement. Written by Myron T. Strong, Ph.D. Letter from the Division Chair Educational Problems Educational Problems DivisionSessions For 2022 Annual Meeting The deadline tosubmit to the SSSP 2022Annual Meeting has beenextendedJanuary 31. Considersubmitting to oursessions SSSP 2022 Meeting held in Los Angeles, CA Friday, August 5-7,2022 The Divisions are pleased to announce the Student Paper Competitions and Outstanding Scholarship Awards. The deadline for all Student Paper Competitions is January 15, 2022. Deadlines vary for the Outstanding Scholarship Awards. In order to be considered for any of the Student Paper Competitions, applicants are required to submit their papers through the Annual Meeting Call for Papers. 2. Applications for the 2022 Racial/Ethnic Minority Graduate Fellowship are being accepted. Two students will be awarded a $15,000 fellowship. Applications must be received in their entirety no later than February 1, 2022. 3. Preview the 2022 General Election ballot. Biographical data for each candidate is provided to acquaint you with their backgrounds. Voting will begin online February 15 and the poll will close on March 15, 2022. 4. Social Problems Special Issue – Call for Papers: The Racism of Omission Social Problems invites submissions for a special issue aimed at inverting the logic of studying racism as solely an intentional (or explicit) act of exclusion and instead examining racism as an act of omission or choosing not to act or acting in a racially habituated fashion without thought or explicit intent. The deadline for submitting papers is May 20, 2022. Please submit papers through the online submission portal and choose “Racism of Omission” at “step 6” of the submission process. Click here for more information. 5. Nominations are open for candidates to run in the 2023 General Election. Consider nominating a colleague or yourself for an elected office by completing the online nomination form. All nominees must be a current member in order to be considered. Online nominations must be received by June 15, 2022. Educational Problems Notes From SSSP Charles Bell. 2021. Punishment, Violence, and the Failure of School Safety Freeden Blume Oer (2021). guest edtior "The Children of the Sun: Celebrating the OneHundred-Year Anniversary of The Brownies' Book." Special issue of Journal of the History ofChildhood and Youth,vol. 14, issue 3. The disturbing truth: school suspension does more thanimpede Black students' academic achievement—it also impacts their parents' employment and can violate stateand federal laws. Read more about or purchase this book and ProfessorBell work athttps://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/suspended Recent Publications by Division Members Educational Problems Irina Chukhray joins the Penn Migration Initiative (PMI) at the University ofPennsylvania. Tilbrook, Ned, and Dara Shifrer. 2021. “Domain-Specific Cultural Capital and Persistence in College.” Social Science Research In press. Irina Chukhray, PhD student UC Davis, became aFellow (2021-22) with the Penn Migration Initiative(PMI) at the University of Pennsylvania. PMI is directed by Dr. Roberto Gonzales. PMI aimsto advance and promote interdisciplinary scholarship and intellectual exchange around issuesof immigration policy and immigrant communities.. Recent Publications by Division Members Educational Problems Extended Deadline: 1/31/21 The Educational Problems Division announces its 2021 Graduate Student Paper Competition. Papers must address acontemporary educational problem and may be empirical or theoretical in nature. Authors must be current graduatestudents. In addition to single-authored papers, co-authored papers will be considered for this award if co-authors aregraduate students but not co-authored with a faculty member or colleague who is not a student. Papers are not eligible forthis award if they have been published or accepted for publication before being submitted for consideration. Papers are noteligible if they have been presented previously at SSSP or presented or accepted for presentation at other professionalmeetings, unless they have been revised substantially with new data, findings, or theoretical contributions. Papers must notexceed 30 double-spaced pages (excluding notes, references, tables, and figures). All papers must include a 150-200 wordabstract and be prepared for anonymous review with the author’s name and institutional affiliation appearing only on thetitle page. The winner will receive a modest cash stipend, student membership in the SSSP, conference registration to the 2022 SSSP annual meeting, and a plaque of recognition at the conference awards ceremony. Authors are required tosubmit their papers through the annual meeting Call for Papers process as a condition for consideration for the award. Students may only submit to one division. All papers must also be submitted electronically (as an attachment) to the Division Chair, Dr. Myron T. Strong at mstrong2@ccbcmd,edu with subject line: SSSP-Edu. Probs. Div. Student Paper Competition. Please include your name, institutional affiliation, and contact information in the body of your e-mail. The paper should be submitted no later than 11:59pm (Eastern Time), January 31, 2021. COMMUNITY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: COMMUNITY PARTNER PAPER AWARD Extended Deadline: 1/31/21 The Community Research and Development Division announces its 2021 Community Partner Paper Competition. Consistent with our division’s mission, this paper award is intended to recognize rigorous academic work that haspractical implications for members of marginalized communities and specifically, to celebrate community-engagedwork. Paper topics can focus on various social issues and problems related to community, such as the causes andconsequences of communities’ exclusion or marginalization from processes and resources, the capacities andstrengths of communities and community movements, and the development and changes within communities. Qualitative and quantitative empirical analyses, applied research, and theoretical papers are welcome. To be eligiblefor submission, a paper must not be published or accepted for publication. Papers must be coauthored with acommunity partner; they may be coauthored by more than one faculty member and/or student, and must include atleast one community partner. Community partners are characterized by any community-based entity that is outsideof the academy. Papers must not exceed 25 double-spaced pages (including all notes, references, and tables), andshould include a brief abstract. To be eligible for the award, the author(s) must make a commitment to present thepaper at a session during the 2021 SSSP Virtual Annual Meeting. To be considered, submit (a) a copy of themanuscript, (b) a cover letter specifying that the paper is to be considered in the Community Research andDevelopment Division Community Partner Paper Competition, and (c) a brief letter from the community partnercommenting on his or her role in the paper. All materials must be submitted electronically to the Annual MeetingCall for Papers on the SSSP conference website by January 31, 2021 and also sent to the Committee Co-Chairs, Olanike Ojelabi at olanike.ojelabi001@umb.edu and Matthew H. McLeskey at mhmclesk@buffalo.edu. The winner will receive a $100 cash award and a plaque of recognition at the CommunityResearch and Development Division business meeting.