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Dr. Joshua W. Murfree, Jr. |
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November 14, 2011
November 4, 2011 |
Dr. Joshua W. Murfree, Jr. serves as the fourteenth superintendent of the Dougherty County School System. Dr. Murfree previously served as the executive assistant to the president, administrative chief of staff and director of athletics at Albany State University. In the realm of academics, Dr. Murfree is a full professor with tenure. He formerly served as the chairman of the Department of Psychology, Sociology and Social Work at Albany State University. He served as the director of the Center for the African-American Male and former director of the Honors Program. He served in the capacity of faculty representative to the NCAA Division II for four years. At the 2006 National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) national convention, Dr. Murfree received the National Alumni Award from Fort Valley State University. Dr. Murfree has been appointed as the superintendent of schools in Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia. Dr. Murfree serves as the national/international mentoring chairman of 100 Black Men of America, Inc. He also serves on the executive committee for 100 Black Men of America, Inc. as the vice-chairman of programs. Under his auspices are the program areas of economic development, education, health and wellness and mentoring. Dr. Murfree is the architect of one of the most comprehensive mentoring programs in the country known as “Mentoring the 100 Way" (now "Mentoring the 100 Way Across a Lifetime”). The mentoring program presently serves 116 chapters in 32 states representing 10,000 members and 125,000 children, youth and their families in America, Africa, the Caribbean basin and the United Kingdom. Dr. Murfree served on the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) committee for the Dougherty County School System during the 2003-2004 academic year. Dr. Murfree serves as the internal co-liaison for the SACS team at Albany State University. He also serves on the RIF Multicultural National Advisory Board in Washington, D.C. and on the National Cares Committee (Formerly Essence Cares) which has the collective goal to secure 2,000,000 mentors for 2,000,000 African-American males.He has appeared on C-SPAN with Bill Cosby, Eleanor Norton-Holmes, Dr. Alvin Puissant and others discussing the state of African-American males. Dr. Murfree appears in the December 2008 issue of Ebony Magazine for his work in mentoring as the architect of "Mentoring the 100 Way." Dr. Murfree appeared June 13, 2010, on MSNBC discussing the dropout rates of African-Americans, the pipeline to prison, parental involvement, community involvement and the misdiagnosis of children resulting in the disproportionate number of African-Americans placed in special education. He has done numerous opening sessions at the Congressional Black Caucus.Dr. Murfree is board certified as a forensic examiner, specializing in interviewing and clinical diagnostic assessment. He is board certified in psychotherapy, a certified criminal justice specialist, and a certified masters addiction counselor. Dr. Murfree is married to the beautiful and former Samantha Wilson who presently serves as associate vice president for student affairs at Southern Wesleyan University in Central, South Carolina. Dr. Murfree has a daughter, Tabitha, who holds a baccalaureate degree in social science, with concentrations in psychology and sociology from Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee, and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Albany State University.Dr. Murfree is a member of Institutional First Baptist Church, Albany, Georgia, under the leadership of Dr. Eugene Sherman. |
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