Women of Color on the Rise: Leadership and Administration in Social Work Education and the Academy

Edited by Halaevalu F. Ofahengaue Vakalahi and Wilma Peebles-Wilkins

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November, 2009
Cloth, 248 pages, 2 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-14476-6
$40.00 / £27.50

"Women of Color on the Rise is not only for social work educators of color but for all who aspire to administrative positions. Women of color often face particular challenges because of current issues of discrimination and bias in academia, yet this book will appeal to all women social work educators in describing the challenges women confront in a male-dominated university environment. Reading the moving stories of these women, including their struggles and the lessons they have learned, is essential to advancing one's career in social work education." — Elaine Congress, Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service

"Women of Color on the Rise serves as a record of the personal experiences and career trajectories of a select group of women of color who are currently leaders and administrators in higher education. That these women were successful in negotiating appointments to positions of leadership serves as testimony to their respective abilities to effect change in the prevailing university, college, and department ethos to which they belong." — Gwat-Yong Lie, Helen Bader School of Social Welfare, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

About the Author

Halaevalu F. Ofahengaue Vakalahi is director of the masters in social work program at George Mason University. Her areas of interest concern Pacific Islander culture and community and women of color in higher education. She has served in administration and leadership positions in several institutions of higher education and in professional social work organizations. Wilma Peebles-Wilkins is dean emerita of the Boston University School of Social Work and a NASW Social Work Pioneer. She has worked as an administrator in public and private practice settings and in two major research institutions. Her leadership role in the national arena has been extensive. She has served on the board of directors of the National Association of Deans and Directors of Schools of Social Work and on both the Council on Social Work Education and the Council on Contemporary Families.

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