Calvin
L. Hicks
Director, Community Collaborations Program
Calvin L. Hicks serves concurrently as the director of the Office of Community Collaborations and Program Development at the New England Conservatory of Music, as a member of the NEC liberal arts faculty, and as a member of the Modern American Music faculty at the Longy School of Music. His long service of teaching, administrative responsibilities, and achievements span many colleges and universities, including Brandeis University (assistant professor, sociology department), Brooklyn College, Long Island University/Brooklyn Campus, City College of New York; Richmond College/Staten Island (member of the liberal arts and humanities faculties); Goddard College, Plainfield, Vt/ Mound Bayou, Ms (director of the Third World Studies Program, undergraduate and graduate divisions); Brown University (lecturer in the African American Studies Department, assistant director of admissions, director of the Third World Center) and Roxbury Community College (division chair, liberal arts and humanities, dean, academic affairs). In association with the Teaching and Learning Center of the University of Massachusetts, Boston, Hicks conceptualized and wrote the blueprint for the creation of Another Course to College, an alternative high school in the Boston public school system. The co-founder of the black educators Roundtable in Boston, he is the author of numerous reports, research studies, and articles, and has participated widely in African American and Third World conferences and workshops across the country. Hicks has received several prestigious awards for educational excellence and outstanding program development work, including the Distinguished Achievement in Education Award (Boston Orchestra and Chorale, 1998), the Distinguished Service Award, Dean of Arts and Science (Roxbury Community College, 1990), the Greater Boston Gospel Academy Award (Roxbury Community Presbyterian Church, 1995), the Millennium Award (Boston Orchestra and Chorale, 2001), the Gospel in Majesty Award (Tri-ad Veterans League, Inc. and Magnolia Society, 2002), and the African Americans Making History Today: Bearers of the Flame/Passing the Torch Award (The Students of the Boston Renaissance Charter School, 2003), and the Community Fellows and Reflective Practice Alumni Award 2006, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning. The New England Conservatory of Music Life Time Achievement Award was presented to Hicks in 2005. Hicks has been appointed to the City of Providence, the State of Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations Providence Heritage Commission. He has also been acknowledged by the national Historymakers organization, Chicago, IL, as a person whose accomplishments are important to the African American Community.
Studies at Drake University; research fellow, MIT, Department of Urban Studies and Planning; M.Ed., Cambridge College, Institute for Graduate Studies; doctoral studies at University of Massachusetts.