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Reynolds, Vanessa – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative research study was to explore the lived experiences of Latina higher education leaders at four-year predominantly White institutions (PWIs). The number of Latinas in leadership positions within higher education does not reflect the growing Latina college student representation. A qualitative research approach using…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Women Administrators, College Administration, Predominantly White Institutions
Mugridge, Carrie – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This is a qualitative analysis of women working in district level administration in Northeast Kansas who hold their district level administration licenses. It seeks to understand and gain insight into women who reach the role of district level administration leadership and discover their career path, future aspirations, and any challenges or bias…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, Educational Administration, Central Office Administrators, Career Pathways
LaVona Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This narrative case study explored how Black women in higher education leadership cope with gendered and racial microaggressions. Through the narratives of the six participants, the study aimed to understand the impact racial and gendered microaggressions have on work engagement and job performance. This study used Intersectionality and Black…
Descriptors: Blacks, Females, Women Administrators, College Administration
Marian Sharis Gallo-Cummings – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study utilized a basic qualitative design and Burns's transformational leadership theory, Crenshaw's intersectionality theory, and Collins's Black feminist theory to examine African American women in senior academic leadership positions at predominantly White institutions (PWIs) who have experienced gender, racial, and/or organizational bias…
Descriptors: African American Leadership, Females, Higher Education, Social Bias
Terrence A. Britt Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In previous studies, Black gay males have shared their lived experiences at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), but the voices of outwardly presently gay Black males remain void in the literature and how they navigate such institutions. Despite their community and relationship-based environment, the foundational tenets of HBCUs…
Descriptors: Blacks, African American Students, Males, LGBTQ People
Stephanie L. Gumbs-Bennett – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Black women comprised only 1.4% of superintendents leading school districts in the United States as of 2021 (Grogan & Nash, 2021). These professionals face challenges to their leadership driven by systemic inequities deeply embedded in traditional leadership perceptions regarding race and gender, and contend with being undervalued and…
Descriptors: African Americans, Women Administrators, Females, Barriers
Shirlene Henry-James – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study examined the racialized enclosure that African American/Black women in technology and engineering experience as they navigate to executive leadership. This qualitative narrative inquiry research explored, through lived experiences, the racialized enclosures inhibiting African American/Black women from excelling to executive leadership…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Technology, Engineering
Roy Ware – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological investigation was to examine the barriers to academic success experienced by female African American college athletes. In addition, the ways these athletes believed postsecondary institutions could provide better support and resources to ensure academic success were examined. Data were gathered via…
Descriptors: African American Students, Females, Student Athletes, Barriers
Langdon, Kerri – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The perceptions and experiences of female community college administrators, particularly those that are part of the Millennial generation, have often been neglected in current research. This study examines community college leadership in a new context, by exploring the lived experiences of female identifying Millennials. More specifically, this…
Descriptors: Females, Women Administrators, Community Colleges, Generational Differences
Chanda Michelle Lee Dunn – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The unique healing and coping perspectives of Black women that have been silenced and traditionally left out of education and mental health offer diverse, unique, and critical understanding of healing and mental health that has not been considered in the past. The purpose of this study was to describe the lived experiences of Black women's mental…
Descriptors: Coping, African Americans, Females, Access to Health Care
Alicia Atwater Myrick – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study aimed to critically explore and analyze the experiences of Black mothers who work in student affairs. Using Black Feminist Thought and a critical constructivist framework, this study sought to analyze how race and gender interacted for Black women who work in student affairs. Black women experience both racism and sexism in the…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Workers, African Americans, Mothers, Racism
Catalano, Victoria – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Public schools are faced with a shortage of women superintendents in the United States. Although women dominate the teaching profession and outnumber men in educational leadership and doctoral programs in education, there is a disproportionate number of men compared to women leading the nation's public schools. Using feminist theory and social…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Females, Superintendents, Administrator Attitudes
Lawrence R. Doty – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation-in-practice (DIP) outlines a quantitative cross-sectional exploratory pilot study on the topic of interviewer gender identity and job applicant evaluation. Through the introduction of the topic, review of literature, and methodology, the real-world relevance and challenges surrounding equal-opportunity employment for women in the…
Descriptors: Job Applicants, Employment Interviews, Personnel Selection, Employer Attitudes
Lauren R. Villanueva – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Institutional Advancement (IA) professionals employed in higher education institutions play a critical role in building relationships with external constituents that lead to philanthropic support for strategic priorities. While IA activities have been part of the fabric of higher education since the 18th century, IA has only been a recognized…
Descriptors: Institutional Advancement, Higher Education, Professional Personnel, Role Perception
Rachel Jung-Hoo Kim – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This critical hermeneutic phenomenological study investigates the lived experiences of Asian American women leaders in higher music education, in order to address their historic and ongoing underrepresentation in leadership roles. Asian Americans comprise a large percentage of students in schools of music and are represented at higher numbers…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Females, Music Education, Higher Education