Dr. Denelle Wallace, Dean of the Norfolk State University School of Education and ODU alum, published a paper about Black male educators in the Journal of African American Males in Education with coauthors Dr. Linda Bol, Professor or Educational Psychology and Program Evaluation, and current Educational Psychology and Program Evaluation students Kendra Hall and Erin Cousins. The paper examines how Black males in education settings view themselves as role models to Black students. The respondents also discuss how they feel the need to prove themselves with respect to academic qualifications.