Beverly Lindsay, Ph.D., Ed.D.

Senior Scientist, CSHE
Professor of Higher Education and International Policy Studies, EPS
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Dr. Linday was an Invited Visiting Professor at the Institute of Education, University of London and Inaugural University Fellow and Professor at Dillard University (New Orleans) in the Office of the President. While in England and New Orleans, she presented invited college-wide lectures at Green Templeton College-wide at Oxford University and to civic and political audiences and leaders in New Orleans.

Dr. Lindsay was appointed by the President of the American Educational Research Association to Chair the International Relations Council of the AERA from 2009-2012. She assumes a leadership role in all phases of AERA initiatives to buttress and expand its international endeavors to include the emerging World Educational Research Association. Creative input into educational policy at the university, state, and federal levels occurs via coordinated efforts with educational institutions and researchers throughout the world.

Dr. Lindsay is the Senior Principal Investigator for the international project, "Universities and Global Diversity," where she is working with over 30 colleagues from six continents. The project, funded by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE), examines how universities are preparing a range of professionals in light of changing global dynamics. In Fall 2008, she was a Visiting Professor at the University of West Indies (UWI), Mona where she was engaged in the "Universities and Global Diversity" project and taught a graduate course via teleconference between Penn State and UWI graduate students.

Dr. Lindsay completed (Fall/Winter 2007) a Distinguished Senior Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo, Mozambique. She taught a graduate course in administration, planning, and budgeting, briefed diplomatic and policy officials, and engaged in research. She was the first American to become a Senior Fulbright Specialist in South Korea (2002) and Zimbabwe (2003) where she engaged in peace and conflict resolution, initiated executive and faculty leadership development models, and fostered strategic planning and program evaluation processes. In 2006-07, she was an Academic Fellow in Israel via the Foundation for Democracy. As a result of her fellowships and research, she has been part of National Press Club briefings (Washington, DC) and engaged in television and radio interviews in Russia, South Korea, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe among other places.

She is a former dean at Hampton University and Penn State University for international education and policy studies and international programs respectively and is a Professor and Senior Scientist at the latter university. At Hampton University her strategic planning endeavors (while Executive Director of Strategic Planning) helped lay the foundation for a $250 million Capital Campaign. As a Penn State Dean, she garnered about $1 million in grants in one year. When leaving the office, she left a surplus of one-quarter million dollars due to sound fiscal administration.

She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She was an Executive Fellow of Multi-Track Diplomacy and International Policy Administration at the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy in Washington, DC, in conjunction with graduate endeavors at American University, Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University, George Washington University, and Syracuse University. Dr. Lindsay was a senior administrator at the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, where she administered cultural/public diplomacy programs in cooperation with the U.S. Agency for International Development, British Council, and several Ministries of Foreign Affairs programs.

As a former president of the Comparative and International Education Society, she expanded relations with international scholars and students, the diplomatic corps, and executive government officials. After being an American Council on Education Government Fellow, Dr. Lindsay wrote over 100 articles, chapters, and essays and produced six books to include Universities and Global Diversity (with Wanda J. Blanchett), Terrorism's Unanswered Questions (with Adam Lowther), Ralph Johnson Bunche: Public Intellectual and Nobel Peach Laureate, The Quest for Equity in Higher Education (with Manuel J. Justiz), The Political Dimension in Education (with Mark Ginsburg), African Migration and National Development, and Comparative Perspectives of Third World Women. Her work on Ralph Bunche has been displayed at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

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