" I saw the limited research grant activity at Langston not as a deficit, but as my greatest opportunity. " - DR. COREY MOORE
Carbondale, a “research superstar” who had once worked at a University of Arkansas RTTC and co authored the field’s foundational text. Rubin’s parting words stuck: “Corey, you can go anywhere and be successful.” “I saw the limited research grant activity at Langston not as a deficit, but as my greatest opportunity,” said Moore, who previously served on the National Institutes of Health Advisory Committee to the director where he helped influence the agency’s landmark designation of people with disabilities as a health disparity population. “I realized I could be the architect of a new era,” he continued. “By blending the rigorous scholarly expectations I learned from Dr. Rubin with Langston’s mission of progress, I set out to build a program that wouldn’t just exist within the university but would lead the nation in research and grant writing excellence. I carried his high standards with me.” STUDENTS, ALUMNI SET UP FOR SUCCESS The institution’s graduate programs maintain a high employment placement rate within six months of graduation, placing highly qualified professionals in critical roles across state vocational rehabilitation agencies and community
rehabilitation and mental health programs. Over the past two years, it has established three new U.S. Department of Education-funded academic tracks and/or emphasis. Furthermore, as a three-time recipient of a $4.375 million RTTC on Research and Capacity Building for Minority Entities grant, Langston serves as the premier national center for building research capacity at minority serving institutions, empowering a pipeline of researchers to influence national disability policy. ARRT Post Doctoral Program Fellows have gone on to hold faculty and leadership posts at Jackson State University, the University at Buffalo, Georgia State University, as well as other universities and federal agencies, including NIDILRR and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Positions open to Rehabilitation Counseling Program graduates include mental health or clinical rehabilitation counselors and therapists, vocational rehabilitation specialists and counselors, lobbyists and advocates, disability services coordinators, substance abuse and addictions counselors, and independent living specialists. “I am proud that we have graduated more than 400 students who have gone on to take professional service and leadership roles to meet the rehabilitation needs of people with disabilities,” said Moore.
‘THERE’S ONLY ONE DR. COREY MOORE’ Moore can nerd out on evidence-based disability policy implementation and practice interventions, but when he takes off his Ph.D. cap, he can go on about sports and his highly esteemed Kappa Alpha Psi membership. He pledged at the University of Georgia in 1992 and loves to reminisce with line brothers and plan trips with fellow alumni. And because the number of Black male Ph.D.s is scant, his network of colleagues and friends continues to grow, said Moore’s collaborator Dr. Michael Brooks. “If you’re doing good work, people want to know you,” said Brooks, a Morehouse College graduate and professor and program coordinator at North Carolina A&T State University. “When you talk about capacity building, when you’re talking about expanding the bandwidth and boundaries so people can do the work they want to do, the work he has done is immeasurable. The sad thing is, there’s only one Dr. Corey Moore. But there’s at least enough to make a difference.His impact on disability and rehabilitation and research capacity building, that work definitely does not go unnoticed, and is very much appreciated.”
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