Who Are We?
Higher Education
Fulltime Faculty
Professors, Associate Professors, Assistant Professors
Dr. Deborah L. Floyd
dfloyd@xuanyuzg.com
Professor, Higher Education Leadership
Program Leader and Ph.D. Coordinator
Educational Leadership & Research Methodology
Editor-in-Chief, The Community College Journal of Research & Practice (CCJRP)
Dr. Jennifer Bloom
bloomj@xuanyuzg.com
Professor, Higher Education Leadership
Founder of Office of Appreciative Education
Educational Leadership & Research Methodology
Co-Founder & Section Editor, Journal of Appreciative Education (JAE)
Dr. Cristobal Salinas Jr.
salinasc@xuanyuzg.com
Professor, Higher Education Leadership
Undergraduate Minor Coordinator
Educational Leadership & Research Methodology
Editor, Journal of Hispanic Higher Education
Dr. Jarrett B. Warshaw
warshawj@xuanyuzg.com
Associate Professor, Higher Education Leadership
Educational Leadership & Research Methodology
Dr. Katie Friesen
kfriesen@xuanyuzg.com
Assistant Professor, Higher Education Leadership
Higher Education M.Ed. Coordinator
Educational Leadership & Research Methodology
Research Methodology
María D. Vásquez Ph.D.
mvasque3@xuanyuzg.com
Associate Professor, Research Methodology
Lead Instructor for EDF 3430
Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology
Associate Editor, Florida Journal of Educational Research (FJER)
Michael A. DeDonno, Ph.D.
mdedonno@health.xuanyuzg.com
Assistant Professor, Research Methodology
Integrated Medical Science (Secondary)
Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology
John D. Morris, Ph.D.
jdmorris@xuanyuzg.com
Professor Emeritus, Research Methodology
Lead Instructor for STA 7114, EDF 7482 & EDF 6432
Mathematics (Affiliate Faculty)
Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology
Mary Lieberman, Ed.D.
mlieberm@xuanyuzg.com
Associate Professor, Research Methodology
Lead Instructor for STA 6113 & EDF 6481
Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology
Sangbeak Ye, Ph.D.
sye@xuanyuzg.com
Associate Professor, Research Methodology
Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology
School Leaders
Maysaa Barakat, Ph.D.
barakatm@xuanyuzg.com
Associate Professor, Educational Leadership
Coordinator, FAU Egypt Partnership
Past-President,
Florida Association of Professors of Educational Leadership (FAPEL)
Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology
Ira Bogotch, Ed.D.
ibogotch@xuanyuzg.com
Professor, Educational Leadership
Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology
Justin Faulkner, Ph.D.
Jfaulkner@xuanyuzg.com
Clinical Instructor, Educational Leadership
Coordinator, PROPEL School Leaders Master’s Degree Program
Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology
John Hardman, Ph.D.
Whardma1@xuanyuzg.com
Senior Instructor, Educational Leadership
Coordinator, IDEAL School Leaders Master’s Degree Program
Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology
Joyce Krzemienski, Ph.D.
jkrzemie@xuanyuzg.com
Clinical Instructor, Educational Leadership
Coordinator, ExEq School Leaders Master’s Degree Program
Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology
Patricia Maslin-Ostrowski, Ed.D.
pmaslin@xuanyuzg.com
Professor, Educational Leadership
Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology
Taka Mays, Ed.D.
mayst@xuanyuzg.com
Clinical Instructor, Educational Leadership
Coordinator, ELITE School Leaders Master’s Degree Program
Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology
Meredith Mountford, Ph.D.
mmountfo@xuanyuzg.com
Associate Professor, Educational Leadership
Director, UCEA Joint Center on Research on the Superintendency and District Governance
Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology
Daniel Reyes-Guerra, Ph.D.
dreyes@xuanyuzg.com
Professor
Coordinator, School Leaders Program
Program Director; PROPEL, ELITE, ExEq, and IDEAL
Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology
Robert Shockley, Ph.D.
Shockley@xuanyuzg.com
Chair and Professor, Educational Leadership
Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology