Beverly L. Bower, Mimi Wolverton

Answering the Call (eBook, PDF)

African American Women in Higher Education Leadership

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Although much has been written about leaders and leadership, we unfortunately know little about women, particularly minority women, who fill this particular role. This book presents the stories, and the reflections on their paths to leadership in higher education, of seven African American women.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000974522
• Artikelnr.: 68357103

Autorenporträt

Beverly L. Bower is Professor of Higher Education, Don A. Buchholz Endowed Chair, and Director of the Bill J. Priest Center for Community College Education, University of North Texas. Mimi Wolverton graduated from Northern Illinois University with an undergraduate degree in mathematics and a minor in geology in 1967. She encountered no women on the faculty in either department. That year, women in STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) accounted for 8 percent of PhDs. and less than 25 percent of baccalaureate degrees. After working a number of years in heavy construction, she earned both an MBA and a PhD in education leadership and policy studies at Arizona State University and spent several years in academia, retiring in 2007 as a full professor.