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Ricki Garrett
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(JACKSON, Miss.) - Ricki Garrett, a 2008 Jackson State University Ph.D recipient in Urban Higher Education, has been awarded the ProQuest UMI Dissertation award for 2009.
Garret's dissertation is entitled "Women Trustees: Finding a Voice for Their Unique Perspective in the Governance of Higher Education."
"It is exciting when others appreciate the research that means so much to us," said Garrett, who is the executive director of the Mississippi Nurses Association. "I chose this topic because I had served as a female trustee of a higher education system, and I wanted to know if other women board members had experiences similar to mine."
Garrett graduated from the Executive Ph.D. in Urban Higher Education at Jackson State University, which prepares students to assume senior leadership roles in post-secondary institutions and other organizations whose primary endeavors relate to or impact the operations of institutions of higher learning.
"I cannot say enough wonderful things about my experience in JSU's Executive Ph.D. program," Garrett said. "The cohort model is excellent, the faculty were wonderful, and I have really grown as an administrator and as a researcher."
Walter Brown, associate professor in Jackson State's Executive Ph.D. Program, served as Garretts adviser.
The ProQuest UMI Dissertation award is granted yearly through the Council of Historically Black Graduate Schools.
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