 Albert W. Black
Outstanding Public Service Award
Department: Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology;
27 years at the UW
Public Service: Black has made his time and expertise freely available
to community organizations such as school districts, church groups and social
service agencies. He has been a speaker and adviser for public schools in
Seattle, Kent and Renton; Big Brothers of Seattle/King County; the Garfield
Community Center, Mount Zion Baptist Church and other organizations. Since
1991 he has served on the State Advisory Board of the Division of Juvenile
Rehabilitation. He created the Franklin High School Parents Group to participate
in school events and reinforce the power of the family. For many years he
has recruited UW students to go into schools and juvenile detention centers
as tutors. Black has also been involved with gang prevention efforts in
New York, Detroit, Los Angeles, Denver and Seattle.
Quote: "He has made a conscious choice to spend his life
in the trenches: in the trenches of the academy here on campus and in the
trenches of some of our toughest neighborhoods. In both places he has given
of himself to serve and to enrich the lives of the weakest among us"--Sociology
Chair Robert Crutchfield
Biography: Won a UW Distinguished Teaching Award in 1977. B.S.,
zoology, University of Michigan, 1963; M.A., sociology, Wayne State University,
1968; Ph.D., sociology, Cal-Berkeley, 1976. |
