Jan 30, 2024

First in a Multi-Article Series >>>>> Lisa Sayles-Adams is the Typical Education Establishment Mediocrity

Article #1  

The Worse Than Mediocre Dissertation for Which Lisa Sayles-Adams Was Given a Doctoral Degree 

Education professors are campus embarrassments. 

No one who holds an Ed.D. (the typical doctoral degree bestowed by departments, colleges, and schools of education), as opposed to a Ph.D. (granted for legitimate scholarly fields such as mathematics, chemistry, history, economics, and literature) would ever be acceptable as a candidate for president of a four-years liberal arts college or university.  And college and university presidents do not waste their time taking non-academic courses of the type taken by those seeking certification as education administrators or those whose goal is to obtain the intellectually flimsy Education Doctorate (Ed.D.).

Lisa Sayles-Adams seems to have written a particularly lightweight dissertation.  Her doctoral thesis ran just 134 pages, described as follows >>>>>     

Creator

Sayles-Adams, Lisa L author. 

Title

African American Women Principals:  A Phenomenological Study to Explore their Experiences in K-12 Leadership Responsibility

by Lisa L Sayles-Adams

Publisher

Mankato, Minnesota : Minnesota State University, Mankato, 2022

Format

1 online resource (134 pages)

text file PDF

Dissertation

Ed.D. Minnesota State University, Mankato 2022 Educational Leadership: Ed.D.

Description

African American women have played a pivotal role as leaders in public education. Their contributions have spanned three centuries, impacting their communities, families, and workplaces. Despite their contributions and demanding work, African American women principals continue to experience the double jeopardy of race and gender. This phenomenological study explored and described the impacts of race and gender on the leadership experiences of five African American women principals in the upper Midwest region of the United States. The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the intersectional experiences of African American women principals and the challenges they faced to improve academic outcomes for students. Special attention was given to the barriers and coping strategies the leaders used to navigate their marginalized and oppressive experiences. The major themes that emerged were categorized as barriers that confirmed; different expectations, double standards, questioning authority, acts of resistance, aggression, and being treated as clean-up women. An additional theme emerged that described coping strategies utilized to navigate racism and sexism in the workplace that included self-advocacy and being authentic, spirituality, support networks, and concealment of their emotions.

Contents

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

English

Genre

Academic theses.

Contributor

Rasmussen, Natalie degree supervisor 

Raskin, Candace F degree committee member 

Agbamu, Efe degree committee member 

Minnesota State University, Mankato, degree granting institution. 

Identifier

OCLC : (OCoLC)1371330595

OCLC : (OCoLC)on1371330595

Source

Library Catalog

Links

Cornerstone Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects 

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If my readers attempt to follow the link so as to read Sayles-Adams’s dissertation, they will come to the same dead-end as did I. 

Alone among the eighty-nine (89) dissertations published by Mankato State University/Mankato for all years 2016 through 2023, Sayles-Adams’s dissertation is in “embargoed” status.   She has embargoed, or made her dissertation unavailable, until autumn 2024.  The strong suggestion is that in taking this action, Sayles-Adams knows that the work is substandard, even by meager Ed.D. specifications;  presumably, Sayles-Adams is working to improve the dissertation until that work at least meets the flimsy standards by which Ed.D. degrees are judged.  I have sought a copy of Sayles-Adams’s dissertation from her directly, but she has not responded.

The apparent embarrassing quality of Sayles’s Adams’s dissertation is one of the several qualities that will be explored in this series, exposing the ways in which Lisa Sayles Adams, who assumes duties as Superintendent of the Minneapolis Public Schools on Monday, 5 February 2024, is the typical education establishment mediocrity.

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