Dr. Woods has chaired the Fashion, Marketing, and Management Department at Berkeley College, and is a former recipient of the College’s Instructor of the Year Award. He also served as an Adjunct Professor at Parsons School of Design and the Keller Graduate School of Management. He has been a designer for Paolo Gucci’s enterprise in Florence Italy, and managed studios in Italy, London, and New York. Dr. Woods is co-author of books like No Mother, No Mirror: A Guide to Gaining A Personal Edge with Business Dress For Women and Men (Houghton Mifflin, 2000).
He has been featured on the top morning shows of WNBC, WCBS, and EBRU TODAY television stations as an on-camera men’s fashion expert. Dr. Woods advises corporate groups for dressing for success and is a member of the High School Advisory Board for the Newark School System.
Educators Must Step Up to Meet the Challenges of Educating Non-White MalesRobert L. Woods, PH.D
The Brown Boy Crisis takes educators, graduate students, scholars, and policymakers inside the minds of a group of learners who fail to overcome the racial barriers schools often have in place to stumble their academic success. Thought to be monolithic learners, African, Hispanic, and Native American males—the brown boys—have the highest dropout rates. They are the most disproportionately under-served students in our schools. Yet, they are the first to be suspended, disciplined, medicated, micromanaged, held back a grade level, and assigned to special education classes.
The school experiences of brown boys have metastasized into a national crisis. The Brown Boy Crisis describes the enormous diversity among these three groups of male learners. It explores the hidden agendas of school culture and misinformation that fuels their higher retention and dropout rates. Find "The Brown Boy Crisis” in our Bookshop:
risha Morrison, and Robert Woods "No Mother, No Mirror" was written on the premise that dressing well is a skill that must be learned, and not one that people are born with. First impressions are everything. People never seem to forget their first impressions of someone, and if it's unfavorable? it takes another seventeen encounters with that person to erase the first impression they had of you.
Fully illustrated, researched, and reader-friendly, their book provides information that should win every one that ever-important first impression. "No Mother, No Mirror" will get even the most introverted employee, student, or businessperson into the mainstream of the workforce by teaching him how to shop, select, and dress for success. Their the book will help employers come to grips with the true meaning of "dressing down Friday's," and what a company means when it tells its employees tolose their "suited? look."