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Sydney Freeman Professor

Positions

Affiliate Faculty, History , College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
Program Faculty, Adult, Organizational Learning and Leadership , Leadership & Counseling
Affiliate Faculty, Africana Studies , Interdisciplinary Programs
Professor, Leadership & Counseling , University of Idaho 2021 -
Associate Professor, Leadership & Counseling , University of Idaho - 2021

Dr. Freeman is associate professor of Adult, Organizational Learning and Leadership at the University of Idaho. He is a former National Holmes Scholar, a certified faculty developer through the Learning Resources Network and an affiliate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Minority Serving Institutions. His research investigates the challenges facing higher education administration programs, specifically, higher education as a field of study and the university presidency. Dr. Freeman has published numerous journal articles and is the lead editor (with Linda Serra Hagedorn, Lester F. Goodchild, and Dianne A. Wright) of Advancing Higher Education as a Field of Study: In Quest of Doctoral Degree Guidelines(Stylus Publishing, 2014) which received the 2015 Auburn University Graduate School "Book of the Year" Award. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the American Association of University Administrators and was honored with the “2015 Emergent Leader of the Year” award by the same professional society. He serves on multiple academic journal editorial and review boards, including serving as managing editor of the Journal of HBCU Research + Culture. He also is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Journal for the Study of Postsecondary and Tertiary Education.

Publications

selected publications

academic article
- Trust or Self-Determination: Understanding the Role of Tenured Faculty Empowerment and Job Satisfaction. Journal of Higher Education. 2021
- Committed to their craft: Understanding the relationship between job crafting and work commitment among faculty in the United States. Higher Education Quarterly. 2021
- Trust or Self-Determination: Understanding the Role of Tenured Faculty Empowerment and Job Satisfaction. Journal of Higher Education. 25-Jan. 2021
- “When I Show Up”: Black Provosts at Predominantly White Institutions. Harvard Educational Review. 91:157-178. 2021
- Examining the Perceptions of Unsuccessful Leadership Practices for Presidents at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. 13:254-263. 2020
- Thriving in the Midst of Liminality: Perspectives from Department Chairs in the USA. Higher Education. 2020
- To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: The Relationship between Age and Race in earning Full Professorships. Review of Higher Education. 43:811-836. 2020
- Exploring mentoring across gender, race, and generation in higher education An ethnographic study. International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education. 8:18-Feb. 2019
- The Three Hebrew Boys Revisited: Exploring Border Crossing "Brotha"-Ship in the Journeys of Three Tenured Black Male Seventh-Day Adventist Professors. Religions. 10:142. 2019
- Negentropy: Energy Creating Tools for Organizational Development. TechTrends. 1-5. 2019
- Leadership for the negentropic online enterprise. Revista Espanola De Pedagogia. 77:437-454. 2019
- Utilizing Multi-Grounded Theory in a Dissertation: Reflections and Insights. The Qualitative Report. 23:1160-1175. 2018
- Who really selected you? Insights into faculty selection processes in top-ranked higher education graduate programmes. JOURNAL OF FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION. 42:855-867. 2018
- Faculty Governance and Satisfaction in Higher Education: A Special Issue. Workplace-a Journal For Academic Labor. 29.0:1.0-2.0. 2017
- Executive Higher Education Doctoral Programs in the United States: A Demographic Market-Based Analysis. Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology Education. 1-19. 2017
- The Negentropic Professor and the Online Curriculum. eLearn. 2017:1. 2017
- Leaders Wanted! The Skills Expected and Needed for a Successful 21 ^st Century Historically Black College and University Presidency. Journal of Black Studies. 47:570-591. 2016
- The Governing Structures of State Supported Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Journal of HBCU Research + Culture. 1:1-13. 2016
- A Brief History of Higher Education Graduate Programs at Minority Serving Institutions. Western Journal of Black Studies. 40:3-19. 2016
- Elitism or Pragmatism? Faculty hiring at top ranked in higher education administration. Journal of the Professoriate. 8:94-127. 2016
- Generational and Fatal Leadership in a Time of Unprecedented Challenges and Changes. Journal of Higher Education Management. 31:28-43. 2016
- Guest Editors' Introduction: Black Students in Doctoral Education. Western Journal of Black Studies. 40:77-79. 2016
- Introducing the Journal for the Study of Postsecondary and Tertiary Education (JSPTE). Journal for the Study of Postsecondary and Tertiary Education. 1:001-008. 2016
- Is there a Core Curriculum across Higher Education Doctoral Programs?. International Journal of Doctoral Studies. 11:127-146. 2016
- The social support networks of black males in higher education administration doctoral programs: An exploratory study. Western Journal of Black Studies. 40:141-158. 2016
- “How It’s Done”: The Role of Mentoring and Advice in Preparing the Next Generation of Historically Black College and University Presidents. Education Sciences. 6:19. 2016
- Diverse organizational issues in higher education. Journal of Education Policy, Planning and Administration. 3-7. 2014
- Emerging organizational issues in higher education. Journal of Higher Education Management. 29:1-3. 2014
- Strategies for Doctoral Students Who Desire to Become Higher Education Faculty Members at Top Ranked Programs. International Journal of Doctoral Studies. 9:271-291. 2014
- The Characteristics of Historically Black College and University Presidents and Their Role in Grooming the Next Generation of Leaders. Teachers College Record. 116:1-34. 2014
- A Case Administrator of Color: Insights and Policy Implications for Higher Education's Predominantly White Institutions. eJournal of Education Policy. 1:1-11. 2013
- Academic Pathways to University Leadership: Presidents’ Descriptions of Their Doctoral Education. International Journal of Doctoral Studies. 7:093-124. 2012
- The Future of Higher Education Preparation: Implications for Policy and Practice. Journal of Education. 1:1-8. 2012
- The Role of Assessment and Accountability in Higher Education Doctoral Programs: A Presidential Perspective. International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation. 1:1-13. 2012

Background

education and training

Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration, Auburn University 2011
M.Ed. in Higher Education Administration, Auburn University 2008
B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies, Oakwood University , Emphasis in Communication, Music, and Business 2007

Contact

full name

Sydney Freeman, Jr