Janet Barber

Janet Barber

Location: washington d.c. area(s)

About me

Dr. Janet Barber is a behavioral scientist with advanced graduate degrees in psychology and sociology. She also holds an Ed.D. in higher education leadership-community college presidency from Morgan State University. Intense, higher level classes and project-centric coursework were imperative to the successful completion of this doctorate and were mainstays throughout the program. She has also worked as a campus dean and vice president of adjunct faculty. Dr. Barber's specialty disciplines are positive psychology, social psychology, critical thinking, transformative, administrative, and mindful leadership. Besides being a Benjamin Banneker scholar (the humanities side), she is a professional APA instructor, as well as a "sleep privilege" researcher. She coined this term in 2004.

  • Besides having project management experience from working and studying in Morgan State University’s doctoral program, Dr. Barber worked with the federal government, initiating programs at the community college level. She also facilitated (2015-2017) the Stratford University academic committee for arts & sciences (ACA&S) for curricula changes, competency measures, and assessments. Dr. Barber has also gained knowledge about accreditation from various work and educational experiences.

  • My project team in MSU’s higher education program followed a community college through 50% of their SACS accreditation process offering hands-on experience and first hand understanding, and one-to-one conversations with SACSCOC administrators.

Dr. Janet Barber is a writer and Banneker scholar. She's seen on Soledad O'Brien's "Matter of Fact," T.V. show (6/20/'21), featured in the Baltimore Sun newspaper, Smithsonian Institute magazine, Washington Post and many other popular media outlets. She worked as full professor at Prince George's Community College; faculty lead (Chair) of the School of Arts & Sciences at Stratford University (Alexandria campus), and formerly as dean of general studies at Strayer University. She also works as a Morgan State University alumnae/writing affiliate. Her higher education, postsecondary administrative positions have always followed a workplace philosophy of mindful leadership and an employee well-being concept. Within these work capacities, Dr. Barber has also mentored as lead professor for the college readiness program (PGCC), has been Director of tutoring and the student success center (SU), and elected vice president for adjunct faculty. She is a responsible, intuitive and caring faculty hiring leader, ensuring diversity and inclusion, In all of her higher education positions, she was responsible for making sure her faculty practiced cultually responsible instruction. Dr. Barber managed block class scheduling, conducted classroom observation, departmental budgeting, research responsibilities, as well as initiating her University's Positive Psychology Center byway of theory ideas from and communication with Martin Seligman’s Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, and readings of Maya Angelou and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Interests

historical & psychological research; nonfiction & fiction writing; higher education leadership endeavors

Skills

writing, research, higher education leadership. marketing. zoom, online, remote teaching and workshops

Activity

I know the information points to have very talkative students to act as "observer" in the classroom; however, I wonder if any of you have hed your "center-of-attention/talkative" student help out as assistant? How did this work for you?

Discussion Comment

I am happy that you got valuable information from this professional development on teaching, Brady, though considering the months between our responses, you may never see this, still I say: Bravo, to a young developing teacher. Students certainly need you and your growth toward expertise in your disciplone. Thanks.

 

It is so interesting to read from an academic perspective the differences between management (itself) and leadership. The crossover is actually more minute than one would think. Good work.

I don't mind reflecting, but it is also esssential that for such a course, practice and application that we discourse with other leaders as well as get the ideas of our direct reports. However, one of the main things I would like to share is that in the time crunch to get my certificates complete, I must admit that I'm rushing through a lot of excellent information here, and this has caused me to answer number one incorrectly on one of the activity assessments. I plan to try to slow and read more carefully. The answer looks terrible and that… >>>

Hello, Peers!

How are you? Being a mindulf leader demonstrates strength and professionalism. I know that I'm preaching to the choir; however, please do not go into a work situation as a leader and immediately impose all of your old "new" ideas on the company and your direct reports. They are already there. Many things may already work. Take a pause; reflect; take a moment (60-90 days) to really see. That doesn't mean that you should not lead, or in some cases, manage, but at least ask meaningful and reflective question in your pursuit to be their leader. Please be… >>>

Best practice for lecturing has been, for me, as the instruction suggest, is to Practice, PRACtice, PRACTICE. Learn to be dramatic and interesting as you share the knowledge of your discipline.

 

As campus dean I served as Senior Academic Administrator at a campus of approximately 1,000 students and 45 faculty members. I was responsible for ensuring academic and administrative quality at the campus and maintained an academic atmosphere conducive to best practices in teaching, hiring, staffing and learning.  Assured and assessed student learning, advising, improving graduation rates, setting schedules and faculty courses every quarter, and successfully resolved faculty and student concerns. Additionally, was responsible for evaluating the performance of each full-time faculty and academic staff members.

That said, I lean toward being a transformative, mindful leader. I also teach mindful… >>>

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