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The courage to lead: black women administrators speak; Part I of III. (In Her Own Words).(social and political aspects of school administration)

Women in Higher Education

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Ed. note: This first of a three-part series on black women in the academy is about administrators at HBC Us. Part II and III deal with faculty and with non-faculty administrators at white schools.

By Dr. Gaetane Jean-Marie, assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies, University of Oklahoma

The experiences of African-American women administrators in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) provide a particular scope of the challenges, struggles and successes they experience. This discussion is a glimpse of my doctoral dissertation research on African American women administrators in one southeastern state's public and ...

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