When and Where I Enter: Uncovering How Black Women Navigate Being the First Woman President at a Historically Black College/University

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session Fourteen
  In Roundtable Session: The Metaphysics of Black Women in Higher Education: Students, Faculty, and Administrator Experiences (Table 17)

Abstract

This study uncovers Black women HBCU presidents who were the first to serve at their institutions’, intersectional experiences and provides understanding regarding HBCU organizational cultures and how Black women leaders negotiate and navigate these institutions. Major findings address the impact of president-board relations, the hypervisibility/invisibility, and racialized gender politics as organizational culture.

Authors

• Felecia E. Commodore, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Presenting Author

• Steve D. Mobley, University of Alabama
  Presenting Author

• Leona McGowan, Old Dominion University
  Presenting Author