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
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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