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Roma Angel, Ed.D.
Dr. Roma Angel comes to the Department of Leadership and Educational Studies with a variety of teaching and administrative experiences in institutions of higher education and the public schools. In addition to supervising student teachers placed in more than a dozen school systems, she has taught courses in curriculum and leadership in graduate and undergraduate programs at three colleges. Her administrative experiences include serving as Assistant Director of the Division of General Studies at Catawba College where she aided in the coordination of a National Education Foundation grant focusing on freshman retention through an innovative integrated study of western civilization and freshman composition combined with a freshman advising and study skills program. More recently, she served as Professor and Chair of the Division of Education at Lees-McRae College where she designed and implemented the teacher education program which achieved NCATE accreditation.
Dr. Angel has also worked in two Watauga County schools where she served as principal of a school that, among other achievements, received the North Carolina School of Excellence award three years in a row and exemplary/high growth status four years. She recently presented as the North Carolina Summer Leadership Conference on effective methods of responding to grief at school following the death of a teacher and has written a manual for administrators. Dr. Angel's research interests focus on the metaphors that school leaders choose to describe themselves and the implications of these descriptors for public success and personal fulfillment. She is particularly interested in metaphorical descriptors that appear in mythic narrative and Jungian psychology.
Dr. Angel has served on the board of directors of a North Carolina charter school and a birth to four-year enrichment school for exceptional children. Dr. Angel holds the master's degree from Wake Forest University and the doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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