Rate My Professor Noelle Arnold

Arnold's research specializations include cultural studies, critical geography, race and gender, rural and urban education, visual studies, education policy, critical leadership studies, disaster and crisis leadership, supervision, equity, health disparities, immigrant students, policy analysis, public health education, P-12 student health disparities, school-community health centers, social and philosophical foundations of education. She has authored or co-authored 10 books published or under contract, including the second edition of Handbook of Urban Educational Leadership and its Companion Guide (2021), and Content Analysis in Education for Oxford University Press. With over 70 publications, key works include “Psychological heuristics and faculty of color: Racial battle fatigue and tenure/promotion” (Journal of Higher Education, 2016), “Spiritual weapons: Black female principals and religio-spirituality” (Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2010), and “A Culturally Responsive School Leadership Approach to Developing Equity-Centered Principals” (Wallace Foundation, 2023). Her grants total over $24 million. Arnold was the first African American woman to serve as President of the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA), holds leadership appointments in the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and is a Faculty Affiliate at the OSU Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy and a national RRJ Faculty Fellow at Vanderbilt University Peabody College. She received the Mary McLeod Bethune Award and was named to the Columbus CEO Future 50 class of 2022.