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| BARBARA LOOMIS JACKSON, EdD
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Dr. Barbara L. Jackson
is Professor in of the Division of Educational
Leadership, Administration and Policy at the Graduate
School of Education, Fordham University, the Jesuit
University of New York City, located at Lincoln
Center. She served as Chair of the Division from
1997-2003. Dr. Jackson came to Fordham in 1987
after serving as Professor and Dean of the School
of Education at Morgan State University, Baltimore,
Maryland.
Prior to her eight years at Morgan, she served
as Associate Professor and Associate Dean at the
School of Education, Atlanta University, Atlanta,
Georgia. In both of these historically black institutions,
she was involved in the establishment of new doctoral
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Barbara L. Jackson
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She received her Doctor of Education
degree from Harvard Graduate School of Education
in 1970; a Masters degree from Teachers College,
Columbia University in 1967, and a Bachelors degree
from Wellesley College in 1950 with a major in political
science.
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Dr. Jackson has many publications
including "Leadership Turnover and Business
Mobilization: Changing Political Ecology of Urban
School Systems" with James Cibulka in the Politics
of Education Association 1991 Yearbook; "Black
Women Role Models: Where can we find them? Initiatives
Winter, 1990; and in 1995, Balancing Act: The Political
Role of the Urban School Superintendent (University
Press of America and the Joint Center for Political
and Economic Studies, Washington) She has a chapter
in Sacred Dreams: Women and the Superintendency,
entitled "Getting Inside History-Against All
Odds: African American Women School Superintendents,"
published by the State University of New York Press,
C. Cryss Brunner, Editor in 1999. Her most recent
article with C. Kelley is "Exceptional and
Innovative Programs in Educational Leadership"
in Educational Administrative Quarterly. April 2002.
Dr. Jackson serves on the Advisory Committee of
the Choir Academy of Harlem; the Board of Directors
of the Institute for Responsive Education; Treasurer
of the Metropolitan Council for Educational Administration
Programs, and completed 6 .years on the Executive
Committee of the University Council for Educational
Administration. She serves on many other committees
and several editorial review boards. She is Trustee
Emerita of Wellesley College. She was a member of
the Research Team of the Wellesley College Center
for Research on Women for the AAUW study, How Schools
Shortchange Girls (1992). In the spring, 1994, she
was the American Association of School Administrators'
Scholar in Residence. She is a member of the National
Commission for the Advancement of Educational Leadership
Preparation (NCAELP).
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Dr. Barbara
L. Jackson received the Roald Campbell Lifetime
Achievement Award from the University Council
for Educational Administration in 2001. |
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| Dr. Jackson was awarded the 1995 Kathryn
I. Scanlon Award by the Fordham University Graduate
School of Education Alumni Association for her contributions
that have enhanced the School of Education as a
center for learning. In 2000, she was recognized
as a Distinguished Alumna of Teachers College, Columbia
University. She received the Roald Campbell Lifetime
Achievement Award from the University Council for
Educational Administration in 2001 and recognized
as Educator of the Year by the Fordham University
Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa in 2002. She received
the Wellesley College Alumna Achievement Award in
2003. |
