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Barbara Mink, EdD (1977*) Austin, TX
EdD, Higher Education, Duke University, 1971

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Selected Publications:

• "College/Public Alliances to Address State-wide Declines in Citizen Education Level", Adult Higher Education Alliance, 2005
• Open Organizations, Jossey-Bass, 1994
• Developing High Performance People, Addison-Wesley, 1993
• Change at Work, Jossey-Bass, 1993
• Groups at Work, Educational Technology Publications, 1987
• Developing and Managing Open Organizations, Learning Concepts, 1979
• Confronting Student Attitudes and Assessing Student Opinion of the Learning Experience, Media Systems Corp., 1979
• Implementing Personalized Instruction, Kendall/Hunt, 1975
• The Language of Mathematics, Prentice-Hall, 1975

Awards: Outstanding Educators of America; Who's Who in American Women; Who's Who in the South and Southwest; Poetry and Essay Division Awards, various Texas Senior Writing Competitions; Visiting Scholar (The University of Texas- Austin); Pi Mu Epsilon (mathematics honorary)

Memberships: Executive Women in Texas Government; Association of Community College Trustees; International Hospitality Council; Austin Area Urban League; Texas Association of Community College Trustees and Administrators
Certification: Certified Reality Therapist; advanced training in Transactional Analysis and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

Special Interests: Designing adult learning; team development; managing change; action research consultation; networked organizations; community college leadership and governance

Related Professional Activities: Board of Trustees, Austin Community College District, Austin, Texas; Visiting Professor, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia; Board Member, Envision Central Texas, Austin, Texas