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Suzanne EstlerSuzanne Estler

Associate Professor
Educational Leadership

estler@umit.maine.edu
Phone: (207) 581-2416

Education:
Douglass College (Rutgers University)
Ohio University
Ph.D. Stanford University


 

 

Courses taught:

  • Higher Education and the Law
  • Doctoral Seminar
  • History of Higher Education
  • Policy
  • Dynamics of Change
  • Social Context of Higher Education
  • Organizational Behavior

Research & public service:

  • Speaking, consulting and training re: equal opportunity and diversity in higher education and private corporations (as UM director of Equal Opportunity 1986-97)
  • Research on effective schools, educational leadership, organizational change, career mobility in higher education, and gender equity in intercollegiate athletics

Representative publications:

  • Realizing the Dream: A Proposal for Achieving Gender Equity in Athletics at the University of Maine. (1995). Office of the President, University of Maine, Orono, Maine.
  • Responding to Sexual Harassment in the Post-Thomas Hearings Era. (October 25, 1991). Maine Perspective, Vol. 3, No. 11. University of Maine, Orono, ME.
  • Serendipity and Career Mobility. (October 1991.) ADVANCE: Maine's Newsletter for Women in Higher Education. American Council on Education/National Identification Program, Vol. IV, Issue 2.
  • Decision Making. (1988). in Norman J. Boyan (Ed.), Handbook of Research in Educational Administration, Longman: White Plains, NY.
  • Accrual Mobility: Job mobility in Higher Education through Responsibility Accrual. (March/April 1985). Journal of Higher Education. with Anne S. Miner.
  • Gender, Culture, and Architectural Values. CRIT (A Journal of the American Institute of Architects). with Labelle Prussin, David Ryckman and Robert Sasanoff, Fall 1983.
  • Evolving Jobs as a Form of Career Mobility: Some Policy Implications, (Winter 1981). Public Personnel Management (Journal of International Personnel Management Association), Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 353-365.
  • Women of the Fifties: Their Past Sexual Experiences and Current Sexual Attitudes in the Context of Mother/Daughter Relationships.(1981). with Wenda Brewster and Marilyn Yalom. Sex Roles , Vol. 7, No. 9, pp. 877-887,
  • Systematic Analysis and University Decision Making: The Case of Sexual Equity. ERIC Document Ed-187-211. Paper presented at the Association for Higher Education Annual Meeting, Washington, D. C., March 1980.
  • Women in Decision Making. (1977). Women's Leadership and Authority in the Health Professions. Proceedings of a conference at the University of California-Santa Cruz, June 19-21, 1977. Washington, D.C.: DHEW/Program for Women in Health Sciences, pp.196-217,
  • “ Women as Leaders in Public Education.” (Winter 1975). SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol. 1, No. 2.

Relevant Information:Suzanne Estler

  • President, Board of Directors, Audubon Expedition Institute, Belfast, ME
  • Member, Association for the Study of Higher Education; American Educational Research Association.
  • Previous professional experience in higher education includes teaching/research, administration, and student services. This has included experience at the University of Washington, Claremont Graduate School, Stanford University, the State University of New York at Binghamton (now Binghamton University), and Ohio University.

Related Links:

Vitae: Suzanne Estler (pdf version)

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