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Map out your journey to the college presidency
Author(s) -
McCarthy Claudine
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
dean and provost
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1943-7587
pISSN - 1527-6562
DOI - 10.1002/dap.30617
Subject(s) - presidency , sacrifice , student affairs , management , graduate students , media studies , sociology , political science , history , law , higher education , pedagogy , archaeology , politics , economics
As a young woman from the projects arriving on a college campus with all her belongings in just “two trash bags and a trunk,” Tyjaun Lee couldn't have imagined herself as a college graduate who would go on to earn her master's degree and then her Ph.D. while working her way up through the ranks in student affairs and eventually becoming a college president. But that's indeed what she did. And it certainly took much determination and sacrifice along the way.