Assistant Professor Kaleb L. Briscoe was named the Council on Ethnic Participation Mildred E. García Award for Exemplary Scholarship winner by the Association for the Study of Higher Education. Briscoe received her award at the ASHE annual conference, held Nov. 16-18 in Minneapolis.
The Mildred García Award for Exemplary Scholarship recognizes seminal, exemplary scholarship that focuses on research and issues specifically related to underrepresented populations of color. Briscoe’s research agenda problematizes oppression and marginalization by interrogating race, racism and racialized incidents within higher education. She served with ASHE as a co-chair of the CEP's Mentor-Protege Program in 2021 and 2022.
Briscoe joined the OU faculty in fall 2023 as an assistant professor of adult and higher education. She previously served as an assistant professor of higher education leadership at Mississippi State University. Briscoe is a 2023-2025 ACPA Emerging Scholar-Designee and a 2023-2024 University of California Fellow for the National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement.
The García Award is presented to one junior, nontenured scholar-practitioner (e.g., visiting assistant professor, clinical assistant professor, or tenure-track faculty) and one senior practitioner-scholar.
The CEP Mildred García Award for Exemplary Scholarship is so named in honor of Mildred García, an exemplary scholar whose contributions as a leader and trailblazer in the field of higher education research continue to raise the bar for academicians and administrators, alike. García’s academic research has concentrated on equity in higher education and its impact on policy and practice.
