Rate My Professor Athanase Gahungu

Dr. Athanase Gahungu is a professor in Education with a focus on educational leadership. He earned his Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. Since 2001, he has served as Professor of Educational Leadership, Curriculum and Foundation at Chicago State University, where he currently acts as Chair of the Department of Advanced Studies in Education in the College of Education and Program Facilitator for Principal Preparation. In these roles, Gahungu co-developed the university's first Ed.D. program in Educational Leadership, redesigned the Principal Preparation Program, and holds a position on the Executive Board of the International Council for Professors of Educational Leadership. His career contributions emphasize preparing effective school leaders, particularly in urban settings.

Gahungu's research specializations include educational policy, school discipline and safety, parental engagement, collaborative research, globalization of education, comparative education, online learning, technology-enhanced learning, international education, student discipline, and higher education administration. He has produced impactful publications such as the book 'The Quality of Foreign Graduate Education in the US: Are the Doors Wide Enough?: A Case Study' (2010); 'Adopting Non-Exclusionary Discipline Practices: The First Steps Are the Most Confusing' (2021, International Journal of Research in Education and Science); 'A Survey of School Discipline Gatekeepers about the Implementation of the Non-Exclusionary Discipline Practices Reform in Illinois Schools' (2020); 'Indiscipline and Safety in Public Schools: Teachers and Principals at Odds' (2018); 'The Need for Improving Intercultural Collaborative Activities With Structured Institutional Systems of Support' (2015); 'Small Group Dynamics in Cross-Cultural Collaborative Field Research: Voices from the Field' (2013); 'Educating Culturally Displaced Students with Truncated Formal Education (CDS-TFE): The Case of Refugee Students and Challenges for Administrators, Teachers, and Counselors' (2011); and 'Integration of Foreign-Born Faculty in Academia: Foreignness as an Asset' (2011). With over 130 citations, his scholarship influences reforms in school discipline, intercultural collaboration, and faculty integration. Gahungu received the Educator of the Year Award from Chicago State University's College of Education.