The Midwest Research to Practice Conference in Adult, Continuing and Community Education is a two day meeting held each fall at a major university in the Midwest United States
(Midwest Research-to Practice Conference in Adult, Continuing, and Community Education, 2004) Armstrong, Keith B.; Nabb, Lee W.
Research strongly supports the notion that publishing houses lack sufficient diversity in
both high and middle-level staff members to allow for a diverse philosophical outlook and
appreciation to fairly support underrepresented groups wishing to publish their research
findings in multiculturalism, gender/sexual orientations studies, race and class.
Resultantly, these biases confront both adult educators and other authors writing in the
areas of social justice and diversity. This presentation will investigate the historical
factors of exclusion in the publishing industry, and more specifically within university
presses, to explain an initiative (praxis) launched to open access by way of creating a
progressively new adult education publishing concern at the University of Wyoming: the
College of Education Monograph Series’ American Adult Educators.