Publications

 Books

Hilton, A.A., Gragg, R.D. III, Urisa, M.V., & Covington, M. (2021). The One Florida Initiative: Reversing reverse discrimination. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc., Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group.

Covington, M., Frye, J.M., Hare, S., McLaughlin, M., & Samuelson, B. L. & (Eds.) (2019). Short guides in educational research methodologies. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Pressbooks. Available online: https://iu.pressbooks.pub/lcle700resguides/

Articles (Refereed):

Covington, M. (Under Review). “I don’t need the academy to teach, I’m a teacher in my soul”: Black women graduate instructors’ teaching experiences and their perspectives and aspirations for faculty careers. 

Palmer, D., Chang, T. H., Covington, M., Na, V. S., Wang, A. C. (2020). (Re)negotiating and (re)envisioning our feminist journeys: A collaborative autoethnography of five doctoral women.  Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs, 5(3), 33-47. Available at: https://ecommons.luc.edu/jcshesa/vol5/iss3/6.

Corneille, M., Lee, A., Harris, K., Jackson, K., & Covington, M. (2020). Developing culturally and structurally responsive approaches to STEM education to advance education equity. Journal of Negro Education, 89(1), 48-57. doi: 10.7709/jnegroeducation.89.1.0048

Commodore, F., Washington, A., Johnson, A., Googe, C., & Covington, M. (2020). Controlling images, comments, and online communities: A critical discourse analysis of conversations about Black women HBCU presidents. Women’s Studies International Forum, 78(2020), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2019.102330

Commodore, F., Washington, A., Johnson, A., Googe, C., & Covington, M. (Under Review). Madame matriarch and sister Sapphire: The crafting of Black women HBCU presidential Narratives in the Media. 

Covington, M. (2018).  Professional Education at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Past Trends and Outcomes. Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 9(1), 91-94. https://doi.org/10.1108/SGPE-D-18-00007  

Covington, M. (2017). If not us then who? Exploring the role of HBCUs on Black student engagement in study abroad. College Student Affairs Leadership, 4(1), available at http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/csal/vol4/iss1/5/

Covington, M., Chavis, T., & Perry, A.  (2017). A scholar-practitioner approach to increasing persistence of minorities in STEM. Journal for Multicultural Education, 11(2), 149-159. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JME-01-2016-0001. 

Articles (Non-refereed):

Covington, M. & Hilton, A. A. (November 20, 2016). Hiring its own graduates could be key to HBCUs’ survival. Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, available online at http://diverseeducation.com/article/89489/

Covington, M. & Hilton, A. A. (August 28, 2016). Increasing HBCU Retention: It’s the Small Things. Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, available online at http://diverseeducation.com/article/86257/

Covington, M., Mazyck, J. E. & Hilton, A. A. (March 8, 2016). The role of HBCUs in preparing students for graduate school at PWIs. Huffington Post, available online at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-adriela-hilton/the-role-of-hbcus-in-prep_b_9318996.html

Covington, M., & Hilton, A.A. (February 1, 2016). Learning from HBCUs to increase mentorship and representation of Black women at PWIs. Huffington Post, available online at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-adriel-a-hilton/learning-from-hbcus-to-in_b_9120116.html?utm_hp_ref=higher-education

Chapters in Books/Monographs:

Covington, M., McClain, K., Dwyer, B., & Hilton, A.A. (2020). Multicultural education and diversity outcomes at historically Black colleges and universities, (pp. 143-164). In C.B. Newman, A.A. Hilton, B. Hinnant-Crawford, C.S. Platt (Eds). Multicultural education in the 21st century: Innovative research and practices Charlotte, NC: Information Age.

Covington, M. & Hilton, A. A. (2017). Advancing equity and diversity in student affairs: A festschrift in honor of Melvin C. Terrell, (pp. 1-3).  In J. Jackson (Ed).  Advancing Equity and Diversity in Student Affairs: The Applied Scholarship of Melvin C. Terrell. Charlotte, NC: Information Age. 

Lomotey, K. & Covington, M. (2017). Substantially Impaired Institutions:  Opportunities and Strategies to Habilitate HBCUs, (pp. 21-45). In Palmer, R. T., Maramba, D. C., Allen Ozuna, T., Arroyo, A. T., Boykin-Fountaine, T., & Lee,J. M. (Eds.) Exploring opportunities and challenges for leadership at minority serving institutions. New York: Routledge.