Graduate school recruitment should begin day one — as a freshman

Abstract

Cherisse Jones‐Branch, Ph.D., Dean of the Graduate School and a Vaughn Endowed Professor of History at Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, has been at ASU since 2003. Her scholarship focuses on rural Black activism, and she recently published the book Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women's Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914–1965 in 2020. And in 2020, she also took over her role as the Dean of the newly reinstated Graduate School at ASU.