Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner

Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner was professor emerita of educational leadership in the College of Education at California State University, Sacramento. She was also the Lincoln Professor Emerita of Higher Education and Ethics at Arizona State University. Viernes Turner served as president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education and as interim dean for the College of Education at California State University, Sacramento. Her research and teaching interests included access, equity, and leadership in higher education; faculty gender and racial/ethnic diversity; organizational change; and qualitative methods for policy research. Her publications include Faculty of Color in Academe: Bittersweet Success (with Samuel L. Myers Jr.) and Diversifying the Faculty: A Guidebook for Search Committees. Turner received numerous recognitions, including the University of California, Davis, School of Education Distinguished Alumna Award and the American Educational Research Association Scholars of Color in Education Career Contribution Award. Viernes Turner earned her PhD in administration and policy analysis from the Stanford University.

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