About

Brian Carey Sims has nearly 15 years of faculty and administrative experience in university teaching and learning, faculty governance, and social and instructional media. He has served as North Carolina A&T State University’s Faculty Senate President, and as a member of the North Carolina Faculty Assembly. In 2010, Dr. Sims founded the Dialogue on Progressive Enlightenment (DOPE) Conference, an interdisciplinary undergraduate research conference designed to connect faculty and students with local community stakeholders. Since then, his model has been adopted by several universities and has informed both pedagogy and college student development on the campuses of Howard University, Temple University, the University of Michigan, Florida A&M University, and the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. 

In addition, Dr. Sims has served as educational consultant with community-based organizations in Chicago, Atlanta, and San Francisco. Today, he is tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Florida A&M University, where his research focuses on the implications of media for individuals, families, and communities of African descent. He has published and presented his work around the world, including England, Bermuda, Spain, Senegal and Malawi and has authored several articles, edited book chapters, seminars and interactive workshops. Dr. Sims is a strong advocate for international education and has also led study abroad programs for undergraduates to West Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Haiti. His forthcoming book, College Thug Syndrome, offers an explosive African-centered cultural analysis of higher education in the United States.

Dr. Sims is an Interdisciplinary Research Leaders fellow of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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