Hodges, Carolyn RWelch, Olga MUniversity of Minnesota Duluth. Office of Diversity and Inclusion2022-05-202022-05-202022https://hdl.handle.net/11299/227597Friday, March 18, 2022 1-2:30 CST; Dr. Carolyn R. Hodges, Professor Emerita of German (Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures); Vice Provost and Dean Emerita of the Graduate School, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Carolyn R. Hodges was a professor of German in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and served for nine years as Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School. From that position she returned to teaching and served as chair of the Africana Studies interdisciplinary program from three years. Before assuming her position as Vice Provost, she had served as the head of the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures and Associate Dean for Academic Personnel in the College of Arts and Sciences. Her scholarly work emphasizes perspectives on Black German literature and culture and leadership studeis, in particular, how leadership informs and must be informated by racial and social justice. She currently serves on the executive board of the Georgiana Simpson Society for German Diaspora Studies and the advisory board for Africana Studies at the University of Tennessee. Dr. Olga M. Welch, Professor Emerita, Theory and Practice in Teacher Education, University of Tennessee; Professor of Education and Dean, School of Education, Duquesne University; Ogla M. Welch served for a decade as Dean of the School of Education at Duquesne University. Before assuming that position, she was a professor in the Department of Theory and Practice in Teacher Education at the University of Tennessee. At Tennessee, she also served as Interim Head of the Educational Administration and Policy Studies Department, and Head of the Counseling, Deafness and Human Services Department. She has published widely on executive mentoring, social justice, equity, and diversity, including an edited volume, Turnaround Leadership: Deans of Color as Change Agents (Peter Lang 2012). She has also served as a reviewer for the United States Department of Education and chaired several regional and national advisory boards in education. She is a member of the US Department of Health's African American Health Care Congress and the African American Pre-Natal Issues Task Force.Authors of Truth Without Tears: African American Women Deans Share Lessons in Leadership (Harvard Education Press, 2018), Carolyn R. Hodges and Olga M. Welch explore conundrums of leadership which arise from leadership models that privilege certain profiles and dispositions and rely on formulas or “recipes” for success.en-USPostersUniversity of Minnesota DuluthLecturesOffice of Diversity and InclusionCollege of Arts, Humanities, and Social SciencesVirtual eventsOther