A Journal for Teachers of Cultural Diversity

Greetings! Making Connections is in residence at Clarion University since Fall 2005. We look forward to serving the PASSHE universities by continuing to promote scholarly growth through the exchange of dialogue and ideas that encourage diversity.

Clarion University is proud to announce the publication of two volumes of Making Connections: a special Frederick Douglass Topics Issue and a General Topics Issue. This issue features topics that relate specifically to "The Great Man," as he was affectionately known to his friends. In publishing this issue our goal is to pay tribute to Frederick Douglass, give our readers more knowledge about his life and work and to explore the intellectual inquiries that continue to be made about him. Douglass is an important figure; his life can be treated from an full range of interdisciplinary perspectives which makes the work of publishing Making Connections an ongoing reward.

I am Dr. Uraina N. Pack, an English faculty member at Clarion University. I hold Frederick Douglass in particularly high esteem. I have had an amazing relationship with Douglass. He was a major subject of my thesis and dissertation projects in graduate school. I became the First Frederick Douglass Scholar at Clarion University in 2001 and one of the first Frederick Douglass Scholars at Lock Haven University in 2002. I joined Clarion University in Fall 2002.

I look forward to discussing Frederick Douglass with all of you.

Dr. Uraina N. Pack

Editor, Making Connections

Clarion University of Pennsylvania