Clement A. Price is named N.J. Professor of the Year
Archived article from Dec 3, 1999
By Irene O'Brien
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has named history Professor Clement Alexander Price the 1999 New Jersey Professor of the Year. The award was established in 1981 by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), an international organization that works in cooperation with the Carnegie Foundation and various higher-education associations in its administration.
The award recognizes a professor's impact on and involvement with undergraduate students; scholarly approach to teaching and learning; contribution to undergraduate education in the institution, community and profession; and support from colleagues and current and former undergraduate students.
"Professor Price has profoundly influenced generations of history students while playing a central role in advancing our campus, Rutgers and the revitalization of Newark," said Steven J. Diner, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. "I am delighted to see him gain this national recognition, which is so richly deserved."
Provost Norman Samuels noted Price's outstanding scholarship and his role as a community leader as contributing factors to his receiving this prestigious award. "Since joining Rutgers-Newark 30 years ago, Professor Price has made significant contributions to the university through his academic research and his commitment to understanding the many layers of American history," he said. "In addition, he is a tremendous supporter of New Jersey and the Newark community through his involvement with such organizations as the New Jersey Historical Commission, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Fund for New Jersey and the Newark public schools. This is a well-deserved recognition of his tireless support of Rutgers-Newark and the greater Newark community."
Price, a celebrated historian, is chair of the department of African-American studies on the Newark campus and teaches classes in African-American history, U.S. urban history and the history of New Jersey. In addition, he has taught a course on the history of Newark for 15 years. It was one of the first courses offered by the univer-sity that dealt with New Jersey history, and he introduced it at a time when most people knew little of Newark's past.
In 1996, he founded the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience, applying his scholarly interest in race and ethnicity to the public understanding of American culture.
Each semester students look forward to Price's tour of Newark, a popular component of his Newark history class. As a 15-year resident of the city, he's adapted the tour to reflect the dramatic changes within the city.
"When I began giving the tour 15 years ago, it focused on the devastation wrought on Newark by the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. Recently, I'm pleased to say that I've added on the tour the extraordinary changes in the city such as improved housing for low- and moderate-income families, better land-use policies and, of course, the construction of NJPAC."
Price has been involved in numerous statewide and Newark community endeavors. Most recently, he was appointed by Gov. Christine Todd Whitman to the New Jersey State Advisory Committee on the Preservation and the Use of Ellis Island.
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