Dr. Frank Harris III is an associate professor of postsecondary education and co-director of the Minority Male Community College Collaborative (M2C3) at San Diego State University. His research is broadly focused on student development and student success in postsecondary education and explores questions related to the social construction of gender and race on college campuses, college men and masculinities, and racial/ethnic disparities in college student outcomes. He is currently engaged in a national study of productive masculinities and positive behaviors among college men. In his role as co-director of M2C3, he partners with community colleges across the United States to conduct research and design interventions to facilitate student achievement among men who have been historically marginalized in postsecondary education. Harris’ scholarship has been published in leading journals for higher education and student affairs research and practice, including: Journal of College Student Development, Journal of Men’s Studies, Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, Qualitative Research, and Journal of Negro Education. He is co-editor (with Shaun R. Harper) of College Men and Masculinities: Theory, Research, and Implications for Practice (Jossey-Bass, 2010). Harris also regularly disseminates his scholarship through refereed conference proceedings, workshops, symposia, and keynote addresses—having delivered more than 70 academic and professional presentations since 2004. Harris is the recipient of several scholarly awards from national higher education and student affairs professional associations. His scholarship has been recognized by the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) with the Standing Committee for Men’s 2008 Outstanding Research Award, the Emerging Scholar Award in 2010, and the 2010 Annuit Coeptis Award for Early Career Achievement. He also received dissertation of the year awards from the American Educational Research Association (Division J—Postsecondary Education) and the Association for Student Judicial Affairs. Before joining the faculty at San Diego State, Harris worked as a student affairs educator and college administrator in the areas of student affairs administration, student crisis support and advocacy, new student orientation programs, multicultural student affairs, academic advising, and enrollment services. His most recent administrative appointment was at the University of Southern California as Associate Director of the Center for Urban Education. Harris earned a bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies from Loyola Marymount University, a master’s degree in Speech Communication from California State University Northridge, and an Ed.D. in Higher Education from the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education.
Articles
The Community College Survey of Men: An initial validation of the instrument’s non-cognitive outcomes construct, Community College Journal of Research and Practice (2013)
The purpose of this manuscript is to discuss the utility of the Community College Survey...
“Cool posing” on campus: A qualitative study of masculinities and gender expression among Black men at private research institution. (with Robert T. Palmer and Laura E. Struve), Journal of Negro Education (2011)
Using theories and concepts relating to the social construction of Black masculinity and male gender...
Gender performance in qualitative studies of masculinities (with Margaret W. Sallee), Qualitative Research (2011)
The influence of gender in qualitative research studies of masculinities is considered in this article....
College Men’s Conceptualizations of Masculinities and Contextual Influences: Toward a Conceptual Model, Journal of College Student Development (2010)
Based on a grounded theory study involving 68 male undergraduates, a conceptual model of the...
College Men’s Experiences as Men: Findings and Implications from Two Grounded Theory Studies (with Keith E. Edwards), Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice (2010)
Problematic behavioral issues involving men have been well documented in the published discourse on college...
Books
College Men and Masculinities: Theory, Research, and Implications for Practice (with Shaun Harper) (2010)
COLLEGE MEN and Masculinities is a comprehensive handbook that offers a compilation of the best...
Contributions to Books
The Equity Scorecard: Chronicling the change process (with Edlyn V. Pena and Estela Bensimon), Confronting Equity Issues on Campus: Implementing the Equity Scorecard in Theory and in Practice (2012)
The mediational means of enacting equity-mindedness among community college practitioners (with Estela Bensimon), Confronting Equity Issues on Campus: Implementing the Equity Scorecard in Theory and in Practice (2012)
The Situation of Men, and Situating Men in Higher Education: A Conversation about Crisis, Myth and Reality about Male College Students (with Ryan Barone), Masculinities in Higher Education: Theoretical and Practical Considerations (2011)
Success among college students of color: How institutional culture matters (with Samuel D. Museus), Managing Diversity: (Re)Visioning Equity on College Campuses (2010)
The Equity Scorecard: A process for building institutional capacity to educate young men of color (with Estela M. Bensimon and Robin P. Bishop), Changing places: How communities will improve the health of boys of color (2010)
This chapter frames postsecondary educational outcomes for men of color from the perspective of institutional...