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Dr. Joshua W. Murfree, Jr. serves
as the fourteenth superintendent of the Dougherty County School
System. Dr. Murfree previously served as the executive assistant
to the president, administrative chief of staff and director of
athletics at Albany State University. In the realm of academics,
Dr. Murfree is a full professor with tenure. He formerly served
as the chairman of the Department of Psychology, Sociology and
Social Work at Albany State University. He served as the
director of the Center for the African-American Male and former
director of the Honors Program. He served in the capacity of
faculty representative to the NCAA Division II for four years.
At the 2006 National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher
Education (NAFEO) national convention, Dr. Murfree received the
National Alumni Award from Fort Valley State University. Dr.
Murfree has been appointed as the superintendent of schools in
Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia.
Dr. Murfree serves as the
national/international mentoring chairman of 100 Black Men of
America, Inc. He also serves on the executive committee for 100
Black Men of America, Inc. as the vice-chairman of programs.
Under his auspices are the program areas of economic
development, education, health and wellness and mentoring. Dr.
Murfree is the architect of one of the most comprehensive
mentoring programs in the country known as “Mentoring the 100
Way" (now "Mentoring the 100 Way Across a Lifetime”). The
mentoring program presently serves 116 chapters in 32 states
representing 10,000 members and 125,000 children, youth and
their families in America, Africa, the Caribbean basin and the
United Kingdom.
Dr. Murfree served on the Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) committee for the
Dougherty County School System during the 2003-2004 academic
year. Dr. Murfree serves as the internal co-liaison for the SACS
team at Albany State University. He also serves on the RIF
Multicultural National Advisory Board in Washington, D.C. and on
the National Cares Committee (Formerly Essence Cares) which has
the collective goal to secure 2,000,000 mentors for 2,000,000
African-American males.
He has appeared on C-SPAN with
Bill Cosby, Eleanor Norton-Holmes, Dr. Alvin Puissant and others
discussing the state of African-American males. Dr. Murfree
appears in the December 2008 issue of Ebony Magazine for his
work in mentoring as the architect of "Mentoring the 100 Way."
Dr. Murfree appeared June 13, 2010, on MSNBC discussing the
dropout rates of African-Americans, the pipeline to prison,
parental involvement, community involvement and the misdiagnosis
of children resulting in the disproportionate number of
African-Americans placed in special education.
He has done numerous opening
sessions at the Congressional Black Caucus.
Dr. Murfree is board certified as
a forensic examiner, specializing in interviewing and clinical
diagnostic assessment. He is board certified in psychotherapy, a
certified criminal justice specialist, and a certified masters
addiction counselor.
Dr. Murfree is married to the
beautiful and former Samantha Wilson who presently serves as
associate vice president for student affairs at Southern
Wesleyan University in Central, South Carolina. Dr. Murfree has
a daughter, Tabitha, who holds a baccalaureate degree in social
science, with concentrations in psychology and sociology from
Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee, and a
Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Albany State
University.
Dr. Murfree is a member of
Institutional First Baptist Church, Albany, Georgia, under the
leadership of Dr. Eugene Sherman. |
Dr.
Joshua W. Murfree, Jr.
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