About me
Dr. Janet Barber is a behavioral scientist with advanced graduate degrees in psychology and sociology. She also holds an Ed.D. in higher education leadership-community college presidency from Morgan State University. Intense, higher level classes and project-centric coursework were imperative to the successful completion of this doctorate and were mainstays throughout the program. She has also worked as a campus dean and vice president of adjunct faculty. Dr. Barber's specialty disciplines are positive psychology, social psychology, critical thinking, transformative, administrative, and mindful leadership. Besides being a Benjamin Banneker scholar (the humanities side), she is a professional APA instructor, as well as a "sleep privilege" researcher. She coined this term in 2004.
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Besides having project management experience from working and studying in Morgan State University’s doctoral program, Dr. Barber worked with the federal government, initiating programs at the community college level. She also facilitated (2015-2017) the Stratford University academic committee for arts & sciences (ACA&S) for curricula changes, competency measures, and assessments. Dr. Barber has also gained knowledge about accreditation from various work and educational experiences.
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My project team in MSU’s higher education program followed a community college through 50% of their SACS accreditation process offering hands-on experience and first hand understanding, and one-to-one conversations with SACSCOC administrators.
Dr. Janet Barber is a writer and Banneker scholar. She's seen on Soledad O'Brien's "Matter of Fact," T.V. show (6/20/'21), featured in the Baltimore Sun newspaper, Smithsonian Institute magazine, Washington Post and many other popular media outlets. She worked as full professor at Prince George's Community College; faculty lead (Chair) of the School of Arts & Sciences at Stratford University (Alexandria campus), and formerly as dean of general studies at Strayer University. She also works as a Morgan State University alumnae/writing affiliate. Her higher education, postsecondary administrative positions have always followed a workplace philosophy of mindful leadership and an employee well-being concept. Within these work capacities, Dr. Barber has also mentored as lead professor for the college readiness program (PGCC), has been Director of tutoring and the student success center (SU), and elected vice president for adjunct faculty. She is a responsible, intuitive and caring faculty hiring leader, ensuring diversity and inclusion, In all of her higher education positions, she was responsible for making sure her faculty practiced cultually responsible instruction. Dr. Barber managed block class scheduling, conducted classroom observation, departmental budgeting, research responsibilities, as well as initiating her University's Positive Psychology Center byway of theory ideas from and communication with Martin Seligman’s Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, and readings of Maya Angelou and Martin Luther King, Jr.