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City: Tustin, CA
Teaching & Professional Interests
- LIS as a Profession
- arts as a way to learn leadership skills
Research Interests
- Storytelling
- organizational leadership
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Dr. Carol H. Sawyer
Lecturer
Dr. Carol H. Sawyer is a professor of organizational leadership bringing to teaching twenty plus years of managerial responsibilities in government, business and nonprofit organizations. Her first master's degree was in library science; she has been a children's librarian in an elementary school, and continues her love of award-winning picture books by collecting them in traveling the world (Next step: Germany!). She is an active storyteller, both in her classroom teaching and with her church. She especially enjoys infusing the arts into teaching organizational leadership and management, and has four times presented at international conferences about that academic approach, most recently exploring the uses of cartography and of poetry to learn leadership theories. She is currently advising a doctoral student whose dissertation research explores three possible roles for university head librarians: scholar, manager, leader.
Dr. Sawyer's most recent publication, in a special summer 2008 issue of Academic Exchange, is a co-authored look at leadership education designed and delivered in a university college of business. Her unusual email address reflects her role as sponsor of a US Navy submarine: USS Pittsburgh, SSN 720.
Courses Taught
Education
- DPA, University of Southern California, Washington Public Affairs Center, 1988
- MPA, University of Southern California, Washington Public Affairs Center, 1986
- MS in Library Science, Western Michigan University, 1976
- BA, English, Michigan State University, 1968
Academic & Professional Experience
- Professor of Organizational Leadership, College of Business and Public Management, University of La Verne, 1994-present
- Adjunct Faculty, Organizational Leadership, Chapman University San Diego, 1996-1998
- Adjunct Faculty, College of Education and also Department of Public Administration, University of Southern California, 1988-1990
- Faculty, Truman Foundation Summer Institute, 1992-1996
- Faculty, Teach for America, 1990
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