Assistant Professor in the Department of Adult and Higher Education at Oregon State University
About
Tenisha Tevis is from Sacramento, California, where her academic career began at a local community college. After two and a half years, she transferred to a comprehensive regional 4-year institution, earning both a bachelor's and masters in sociology. Falling in love with statistics and having an improved understanding of raced-based outcomes, she pursued a position to be a research analyst for a research center focused on delinquency, crime, and education, before pursing her PhD in Education.
Current Work:
Tenisha Tevis seeks to address transitional and institutional (K-16) practices, rooted in her former administrative experience, that impact historically marginalized students, through two intersecting research areas. She has illuminated the systemic tensions Students of Color, Students with Disabilities, and First-year students have to overcome during their transition to and navigation of college. She has also shed light on the confluence of administrative leadership and identity, exploring the role Whiteness plays in higher education administration; having co-developed a revolutionary approach to studying leadership education; and co-conceptualized a anti-racist leadership framework for higher education.
Research Area Keyword(s):
leadership, inclusion, retention
