Pathways to the Presidency: Biographical Sketches of Women of Color Firsts

Autor/in	Turner, Caroline Sotello Viernes
Titel	Pathways to the Presidency: Biographical Sketches of Women of Color Firsts
Quelle	In: Harvard Educational Review, 77 (2007) 1, S.1-38 (38 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0017-8055
Schlagwörter	Race; Higher Education; Leadership; Females; Mexican Americans; American Indians; Asian Americans; College Presidents; Disproportionate Representation; Biographies; Interviews; Career Development; Career Planning; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rasse; Abstammung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Führung; Führungsposition; Weibliches Geschlecht; Hispanoamerikaner; American Indian; Indianer; Asian immigrant; United States; Asiatischer Einwanderer; USA; College president; Hochschulpräsident; Biography; Biografie; Biographie; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Berufsentwicklung; Karriereplanung
Abstract	According to recent data, only 3 percent of all college and university presidents are women of color. While the numbers remain disturbingly low, some of these women of color are making history as the "first" of their gender, race, and ethnicity to become president of a public, baccalaureate degree-granting college or university. In this article, Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner presents biographical sketches of three of these women. They are acknowledged to be the first Mexican American, Native American, and Asian Pacific/Asian American women who are presidents of such colleges in the United States. Women from these respective racial and ethnic groups have become university presidents only recently. Using in-depth interviews and cross-case comparisons, the author examines the paths these women presidents have taken and how their narratives contribute important information about women of color in higher education administration. She asserts that from their stories we can learn about the "pathway to the presidency" these women have helped to forge, about the ways universities can help support the leadership development of women of color, and about how to foster leadership in other women of color who aspire to be college presidents. Turner concludes that these women of color "firsts" continue to make important contributions to the field of higher education, and to pave the way for other women. (Contains 2 tables and 11 notes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10