ABOUT THE CO-FOUNDERS OF EDUCATIONAL LEADERS WITHOUT BORDERS
Dear ELWB Scholar,
We Believe, That It Is Through Education That Darkness Is Lifted, And Hope And Happiness Is Restored For A Fair And Just Journey For All. Take Time Now To Ensure You Are Kind To Yourselves During/Following COVID-19, Climate Changes, Other Harrowing Events In Our Daily Lives And Recommit Yourself With Us To Ensure A Future Good For All Living Beings.
We Send Our Warmest Wishes For Your Safety And Health,
Rosemary & Fenwick
Dr. Rosemary Papa [aka Papa-Lewis] is the Executive Director and Founder of Educational Leaders Without Borders, Emeritus Professor of Educational Leadership & The Del and Jewel Lewis Endowed Chair in Learning Centered Leadership, Northern Arizona University 2007-2018 and Emeritus Professor of Leadership, California State University, Sacramento & Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning. She has held Principal/Chief School Administrator in K-12, served as CSU system level Assistant Vice Chancellor, California State University, Vice President for Sylvan Learning, Professor, and Founder of several joint doctoral programs between the University of California and the California State University System. She was the first women president of NCPEA/ICPEL in 1992. In 2012, she was the recipient of the Arizona School Administrators Outstanding Higher Education Administrator of the Year Award, was named a Living Legend by the International Council of Professors of Educational Leadership in 2003 and received the 2015 Willystine Goodsell Award for research on education of women and children by the American Educational Research Association’s, special interest group for research on women, and the Creighton Publishing Award 2021. In 2022 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of West Attica, Athens, Greece. She is the Founder of one of the first online open access, referred journals in the world, the Journal of Education Policy (eJEP founded1999-2000). Dr. Papa has published dozens of referred articles in academic journals, presented and invited internationally at numerous world-wide conferences and has written over 30 books on social justice leadership, technology leadership, school violence, etc., and serves as a Senior Editor for Oxford University Press, Encyclopedia of Educational Administration.
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Dr. Fenwick W. English is Co-Founder and currently professor and associate dean of Florida Golf Coast University. Formerly he spent 17 years as the R. Wendell Eaves Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is past President of UCEA (2006-07) University Council of Educational Administration) and of NCPEA (2011-12) which is now ICPEL (International Council of Professors of Educational Leadership). He has presented his research at UCEA, AERA, NCPEA and overseas at BELMAS (British Educational Leadership and Management Association Society); CCEAM (Commonwealth Council of Education Administration and Management) and AARE (Australian Association of Research in Education). As a practitioner, Dr. English as served as a middle school principal and superintendent of schools as well as in the private sector a partner( principal) in KPMG Peat Marwick in Washington, D.C. In higher education he has been a department chair, dean of a school of education, and vice-chancellor of academic affairs (provost) at Purdue University Fort Wayne, Indiana. He co-founded the refereed academic journal The International Journal of Educational Reform in 1992. He also served as General Editor of the 2006 two volume SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration and two editions of the SAGE Handbook of Educational Leadership: Advances in Theory, Research and Practice in 2005 and 2011. Over a thirty year period he has published over 42 books and dozens of book chapters and refereed papers.