Sharon Fries-Britt

Fries-Britt received her PhD in 1994 from the University of Maryland, College Park where she now serves as a professor in the Department of Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education. She was a fellow at the Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity at the University of Maryland.{{cite web |title=Faculty Affiliates - CRGE |url=http://crge.umd.edu/about-us/faculty-affiliates/ |publisher=Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity |accessdate=10 June 2020}} She was one of the research fellows on a $2.5 million grant for "broadening participation in physics" from the National Society of Black Physicists.{{cite web |title=NSF Award Search: Award#0400699 - Broadening Participation in Physics: Fall Regional Meetings and Spring Annual Conferences of the National Society of Black Physicists |url=https://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0400699 |accessdate=10 June 2020}}

In 2018 she was invited with Adrianna Kezar to investigate and report on the "highly visible racial crisis in the 2015–16 academic year" at the University of Missouri. Stella M. Flores of New York University's Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy commended the study at a time "when the nation and our colleges and universities are facing unprecedented demographic change, but faculty and leadership have not changed nearly as fast in terms of representation."{{cite news |last1=Pennamon |first1=Tiffany |last2=Jones |first2=LaMont |title=ACE Study Outlines Best Practices in Campus Racial Crises |url=https://diverseeducation.com/article/131713/ |accessdate=10 June 2020 |work=Diverse: Issues In Higher Education |publisher=Cox, Matthews, and Associates, Inc. |date=13 November 2018 |language=en}}

She serves on the American Institute of Physics National Task Force to Elevate African American Representation in Undergraduate Physics & Astronomy (TEAM-UP).{{cite book |author1=The AIP National Task Force to Elevate African American Representation in Undergraduate Physics & Astronomy (TEAM-UP) |title=The Time is Now: Systemic Changes to Increase African Americans with Bachelor's Degrees in Physics and Astronomy |date=13 November 2019 |publisher=American Institute of Physics |isbn=978-1-7343469-0-9 |url=https://www.aip.org/sites/default/files/aipcorp/files/teamup-full-report.pdf |accessdate=10 June 2020}} After a two-year investigation, this group released a call for a $50 million program to increase the number of African-American physics and astronomy degree recipients in the US, at 3% in 2020.{{cite news |last1=Gewin |first1=Virginia |title=Task force recommends US$50-million fund to bring African Americans into physics and astronomy |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00286-z |accessdate=10 June 2020 |journal=Nature |publisher=Springer Nature Limited |date=31 January 2020 |ref=natureTaskForce |language=en |doi=10.1038/d41586-020-00286-z}}{{cite journal |last1=Feder |first1=Toni |title=Goal: Double the number of African Americans in physics and astronomy |journal=Physics Today |publisher=American Institute of Physics |pages=20–23 |doi=10.1063/PT.3.4405 |date=1 February 2020|volume=73 |issue=2 |s2cid=213795688 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2020PhT....73b..20F }}{{cite news |last1=Robinson-Jacobs |first1=Karen |title=Physicists propose $50M to support African American students |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/physicists-spend-50m-support-african-american-students-n1135146 |accessdate=10 June 2020 |work=NBC News |date=21 February 2020 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Chu |first1=Jennifer |title=Making physics and astronomy more welcoming to African-American students |url=http://news.mit.edu/2020/physics-astronomy-african-american-students-0113 |accessdate=10 June 2020 |work=MIT News |publisher=MIT News Office |date=13 January 2020}}

She received the 2011 Mentoring Award for "noteworthy contributions" to "mentoring developing scholars" from the Association for the Study of Higher Education.{{cite web |title=Higher Education & Student Affairs Spotlight |url=https://education.umd.edu/academics/departments/chse/research/higher-education-student-affairs-spotlight |publisher=UMD College of Education |accessdate=10 June 2020}}{{cite web |title=ASHE Mentoring Award |url=https://www.ashe.ws/ashe_mentoraward |publisher=Association for the Study of Higher Education |accessdate=10 June 2020}} In 2020 she received an Alumni Excellence award for "transformational" research from the University of Maryland Alumni Association.{{cite web |title=The Alumni Excellence Awards |url=https://alumni.umd.edu/excellence |publisher=University of Maryland Alumni Association |accessdate=10 June 2020}}

• {{cite journal |last1=Fries-Britt |first1=Sharon |last2=Turner |first2=Bridget |title=Uneven Stories: Successful Black Collegians at a Black and a White Campus |journal=The Review of Higher Education |date=2002 |volume=25 |issue=3 |pages=315–330 |doi=10.1353/rhe.2002.0012 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/30152/pdf |accessdate=10 June 2020 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|s2cid=145223610 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Fries-Britt |first1=Sharon L |last2=Turner |first2=Bridget |title=Facing stereotypes: A case study of Black students on a White campus |journal=Journal of College Student Development |date=September 2001 |volume=42 |issue=5 |pages=420–429 |publisher=ACPA Executive Office |issn=0897-5264}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Fries-Britt |first1=Sharon |last2=Griffin |first2=Kimberly |title=The Black Box: How High-Achieving Blacks Resist Stereotypes About Black Americans |journal=Journal of College Student Development |date=September–October 2007 |volume=48 |issue=5 |pages=509–524 |doi=10.1353/csd.2007.0048 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/221309/pdf |accessdate=10 June 2020 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|s2cid=145356280 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Fries-Britt |first1=Sharon |title=Moving beyond Black Achiever Isolation |journal=The Journal of Higher Education |date=November 2016 |volume=69 |issue=5 |pages=556–576 |doi=10.1080/00221546.1998.11775151 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00221546.1998.11775151?journalCode=uhej20 |accessdate=10 June 2020}}

• {{cite book |last1=Fries-Britt |first1=Sharon |last2=Holmes |first2=Kimberly M. |editor1-last=Sharpe and Chambers |editor1-first=Rhonda V. and Crystal Renee |title=Black female undergraduates on campus : successes and challenges |publisher=Emerald Group Publishing Limited |isbn=9781780525037 |pages=199–218 |chapter=Prepared and Progressing: Black Women in Physics|date=5 January 2012 }}
• {{cite book |last1=Kezar |first1=Adrianna |last2=Fries-Britt |first2=Sharon |title=Speaking Truth and Acting with Integrity: Confronting Challenges of Campus Racial Climate |date=2018 |publisher=American Council on Education |url=https://www.acenet.edu/Documents/Speaking-Truth-and-Acting-with-Integrity.pdf |accessdate=10 June 2020}}

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