Authors: George C. Bradley and Tina Marshall-Bradley
DR. GEORGE C. BRADLEY is Executive Vice President and Professor of Education at Claflin University in Orangeburg. Dr. Bradley, as scholar, has published numerous articles pertaining to educational issues in the areas of administrative decision-making, curriculum, and technology. Dr. Bradley earned his Bachelor of Science and Master’s degrees from South Carolina State University. He earned his Ph.D. from Iowa State University, majoring in Higher Education Administration with a cognate in Research and Evaluation. During his professional career he has taught and conducted research in mathematics, statistics, and education research in a variety of institutions of higher education in Florida, Iowa, Virginia, and South Carolina as well as Bermuda. For the past 20 years he has held a variety of administrative positions, including Regional Academic Director for South Carolina with Webster University, chairperson of the Department of Educational Administration at South Carolina State University, and Associate Vice President for Development at Norfolk State University in Virginia. Dr. Bradley, with his wife, Tina, founded the South Carolina Institute for Research in Education (SCIRE), a research facility for the study of educational-related issues in South Carolina. His research activities have ranged from evaluator on a variety of state and federally funded projects to principal investigator of studies that examine academic indicators for students who have not been served well in education systems. Along with his full-time responsibilities, Dr. Bradley holds offices in several professional associations and serves on professional and civic boards.
DR. TINA MARSHALL-BRADLEY is Dean of the School of Education at Claflin University in Orangeburg. She is a former Research Associate at the South Carolina State Department of Education and has served on the faculty at Benedict College in Columbia, The Citadel and South Carolina State University. She earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees as well as her Ph.D. in the filed of education. She has also completed postdoctoral work in the Office of Education at NASA’s Langley Research Center and the American University in Cairo, Egypt, where she was a Fulbright Binational Faculty Fellow and studied at the Giza Plateau in Cairo. She has worked as a public school teacher in South Carolina and Florida. For the past 20 years she has worked in higher education developing innovative programs for African and African American students. Dr. Marshall-Bradley, with her husband, George, founded the South Carolina Institute for Research in Education (SCIRE), a research facility for the study of educational-related issues in South Carolina. She was named South Carolina State University’s 1999-2000 Teacher of the Year as wellas a distinguished professor in the state of South Carolina. She has published and presented extensively in the areas of international education, accreditation, and technology. In addition to her scholarly work, she serves on several boards at the state and national levels in the area of teacher education.