Introductory Comments
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 edition of Journal of the K-12 Revolution: Essays and Research from Minneapolis
Minnesota exposing the ways in which Lisa Sayles Adams, who assumed duties as
Superintendent of the Minneapolis Public Schools on Monday, 5 February 2024, is
the typical education establishment mediocrity.
