The Oxford Encyclopedia of Educational Administration

Dr. Rosemary Papa is the Founder of Educational Leaders Without Borders; The Comparative and International Professor of Education and Leadership, Soka University of America (Fall, 2017-present); and has served as The Del and Jewel Lewis Endowed Chair in Educational Leadership at Northern Arizona University from the fall of 2007 to 2018. She has also served as a Principal/Chief School Administrator for two districts in Nebraska, a system-level Assistant ViceChancellor in the California State University System, Vice President for Sylvan Learning, Professor, and Faculty Director of a University-based Center for Teaching and Learning in California. In 2015, she was the recipient of the AERA 2015 Willystine Goodsell Award (Women in Education SIG) and gave thekeynote address at AERA 2016, Washington, D.C. for her research on women and girls. In 2012, she was the recipient of the Arizona School Administrators Outstanding Higher Education Administrator of the Year Award. Dr. Papa has published25+ books in the areas of leadership, educational policy, social justice, sustainability, school effectiveness, and technology for school leaders and teachers and faculty in higher education. In addition to the Encyclopedia, she has two major edited collections with Springer: Handbook on Promoting Social Justice in Education (2020) and School Violence in International Contexts - Perspectives from Educational Leaders Without Borders (2019). Dr. Papa has also publishedmore than 80 articles in refereed academic journals.