Biography
Regent's Professor & Distinguished Professor
H. Prentice Baptiste is a Regents and Distinguished Achievement Professor at New Mexico State University. Professor. Dr. Baptiste was awarded the first College of Education Diversity Award in 2014.He was president of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) from 2016 to 2018, a premier organization advocating for equity and social justice, which he help found in 1990. His research interests include the conceptualization of multicultural education, the process of multiculturalizing educational entities, and culturally diversifying science and mathematics instruction. Baptiste has authored or edited seven books, K-8 science book series (Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Publishers) as well as over 125 articles, papers, and chapters on multicultural and science education. He has presented papers and conducted workshops in Nigeria, Egypt, Germany, Jamaica, Kenya, Morocco, the Netherlands and Cuba.
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