Dr. Brizendine is Associate Dean of the College of Education and Allied Studies and Professor of Educational Leadership at California State University, Hayward. Prior to her appointment as Associate Dean in 1996, she served as Assistant Dean (1995-96) and Department Chair of Educational Leadership (1993-95), the department in which she earned tenure and full professor rank. She joined the Cal State Hayward faculty in 1990 after serving for three years as Assistant Professor in the Department of Administration and Interdisciplinary Studies at San Francisco State University. While at SFSU, she founded the Urban Educational Leadership Institute, a leadership recruitment and preparation program for underrepresented educators in collaboration with San Francisco Unified School District. At CSUH, she developed a similar program called Diversity in Leadership.
Dr. Brizendine began her career as a social studies and American government high school teacher, a middle school vice principal, and a coordinator of Multicultural Education in Long Beach Unified School District. She received her master’s degree and Ed.D. from UCLA, where she was a Fellow in the UCLA-Bush Foundation Program in Child Development and Social Policy, and a research assistant in the Laboratory in School and Community Education research project.
Dr. Brizendine has served on a number of review boards of journals in the area of educational leadership. She has received grants for minority educator recruitment and preparation, teacher development in instructional technology and teacher support national board certification. She has also served as faculty team leader and chair of professional development school partnership governing board at CSUH. She is involved in reviewing teacher and educator preparation programs serving on the Board of Institutional Reviewers for California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, the Board of Examiners for National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, and the Board of International Reviewers for the Center for Quality Assurance in International Education. Her research interests include school leadership and capacity building in urban schools, policy implementation, women and minority leadership, school change. |
