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| Dr. Dionne Rosser-Mims |
In this episode, Dr. Leslie
Cordie interviews Dr. Dionne Rosser-Mims on her own reflections as a Dean. Dr.
Rosser-Mims is a Full Professor of adult education and
Dean of the College of Education at Troy University. Dr. Rosser-Mims is the
recipient of the prestigious 2013 Wallace D. Malone, Jr. Distinguished Faculty
Award and past president of Troy University’s Faculty Senate in which she
served two years consecutively.
Dr. Rosser-Mims has nearly 20
years of adult education experience, including work in collegiate teaching as
well as training and development. Over the past 10 years she has engaged in a
range of international-related work that includes leading four study-abroad
experiences, negotiating agreements with Kyambogo University and Makerere University,
and serving as a workshop presenter in 2019 and the inaugural year of the
Higher Education Resource Services, East Africa (HERS-EA) Leadership Academy
held at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. She has authored four
books, published numerous articles and book chapters, and delivered numerous
conference presentations at the regional, national, and international levels.
She is the co-founder and former coeditor in chief of Dialogues in Social
Justice: An Adult Education Journal, a peer-reviewed open-access journal.
Before joining Troy
University, Dr. Rosser-Mims held a faculty position at the University of
Georgia’s Fanning Institute for Leadership, where she worked on projects
targeting first- and second-tier counties suffering from economic, educational,
and social disparities by providing program development, leadership training,
and facilitation services. She continues to work with a range of audiences,
including adult and youth community and advocacy groups, to provide
facilitation services in the areas of team building, group dynamics, leadership
assessments, conflict management, communication, board development, and strategic
planning.
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