Monte Piliawsky, Ph.D.
Associate Professor (Teaching) of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
313-577-1725
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Monte Piliawsky, Ph.D.
Degrees and Certifications
- 1970 Tulane University, Ph.D., Political Science
- 1968 Tulane University, Ph.D. Political Science
- 1965 University of New Orleans, B.A. (cum laude), Political Science
Academic Interests
- History and Philosophy of American Education; Sociology of Education; Public Policy in Education
Biography
My dissertation service work includes having chaired 7 doctoral committees, been the cognate advisor on 10 committees, and the general reader on 30 others.
- 1999- Associate Professor (until 2006), then Senior Lecturer, Wayne State University , Detroit, MI
- 1995-1999 Associate Professor, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
- 1994-1995 Instructor, Asnuntuck Community-Technical College, Enfield, CT
- 1998-1994 Instructor, Penn Valley Community College, Kansas City, MO
- 1990-1994 Visiting Professor, University of Missouri, Kansas City
- 1974-1987 Professor (all ranks), Dillard University, New Orleans, LA
- 1984-1985 Visiting Associate Professor, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
- 1970-1972 Assistant Professor, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS
- 1970 Instructor, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
- 1969 Special Lecturer, University of New Orleans
- 1968 Instructor, Xavier University, New Orleans, LA
Area of Expertise
- Remedies to School Segregation; School Tutoring Programs; Mayoral Takeover of School Districts; Charter Schools
Research Interests
My research focuses on designing, implementing and evaluating school dropout prevention programs that provide academic tutoring and supplemental enrichment to high school students.
Awards
- 1965
National Defense Education Act Fellowship - 1987
United Negro College Fund's Strengthening the Humanities Fellowship
Grants
- Ninth Grade In-School Academy
2000 - 2003
Community Engagement Activities
- 2003- Board Member, The Dearborn Academy (a K-8 charter school)
- 2006 Workshop on "Reducing the High Schol Dropout Rate," The Skillman Foundation
- 2006 Consultant to "Good Schools Making the Grade" program, The Skilman Foundation
Presentations
- Voluntary School Choice As a Remedy to De Facto School Segregation
*M. Piliawsky 10 1997 American Educational Studies Association, San Antonio, TX - Inner-City School Privatization: The Case of Hartford
*M. Piliawsky 10 1998 American Educational Studies Association, Philadephia, PA - Educational Reform or Corporate Agenda? State Takeover of Detroit's Public Schools
*M. Piliawsky 10 1999 Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, Detroit, MI - State Takeover of Public Schools in Hartford and Detroit: Educational Reform or Managerial Reshuffle?
*M. Piliawsky 10 1999 American Educational Studies Association, Detroit, MI - Drop-out Prevention among Urban, African-American Ninth Grade Students
C, Somers & *M. Piliawsky 4 2002 American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA - Individual and School Factors Related to Urban At-Risk Adolescents' School Performance
C. Somers, *M. Piliawsky, & J.Tynan 4 2003 National Association of School Psychologists, Dallas, TX - A Study of High School Drop Out Prevention and At-Risk Ninth Graders' Role Models and Motivations for School Completion
C. Somers, *M. Piliawsky, & J.Tynan 4 2003 National Association of School Psychologists. Toronto, Canada - Academic Achievement among Urban At-Risk Adolescents: Investigation of Social Support , Personal Control, and Persistence"
C. Sommers, J. Yoon, & *M. Piliawsky 4 2004 Society for Research on Adolescence, Baltimore, MD - Social Support, Personal Control, and Persistence: Predictors of Urban Adolescent Achievement
C. Sommers, J. Yoon, & *M. Piliawsky 4 2004 National Association of School Psychologists, Dallas, TX - An Invisible Voice of the New Left: Life Cycle Political Socializationof a White, Working-Class Radical Woman
*M. Piliawsky 11 2005 The Oral History Association, Providence, RI
Publications
- Exit 13: Oppression and Racism in Academia
*M. Piliawsky 1982 (Boston: South End Press) - Remedies to De Facto School Segregation
*M. Piliawsky 7 1998 The Black Scholar 28 - The Perils of Inner-City School Privatization
*M. Piliawsky 9 1999 SER in Action 10 - Monte Piliawsky, interview
*M. Piliawsky 2003 eds. Cooper Thompson, Emmett Schaefer, & Harry Brod, White Men Challenging Racism: 35 Personal Stories (Durham: Duke University - Educational Reform or Corporate Agenda? State Takeover of Detroit's Public Schools
*M. Piliawsky 2003 G. Noblit & B. Hatt-Echeverria (eds),The Future of Educational Studies (New York: Peter Lang) - Drop-out Prevention among Urban, African-American, Ninth Grade Adolsecents: Program Evaluation and Practical Implications
C.L. Somers & *M. Piliawsky 4 2004 Preventing School Failure 48 - Book review of Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986 by J. Todd Moye
*M. Piliawsky 2008 The Oral History Review 35 - Individual and Social Factors Related to Urban African American Adolescents' School Performance
C.L. Somers, D.Owens, & *M. Piliawsky 7 2008 The High School Journal - A Study of High School Dropout Prevention and At-Risk Ninth Graders
C. Somers, D. Owens, & *M. Piliawsky 2009 Educaton 130 (2)