Noelle W. Arnold

Noelle Witherspoon Arnold
Nationality	United States
Alma mater	University of Alabama (BA, MA, EdS, PhD)
Known for	Womanist Spirituality, Educational Ethnography
Scientific career
Fields	Educational Administration
Institutions	Ohio State University
Doctoral advisor	Natalie Adams

Noelle W. Arnold, Ph.D. (sometimes listed as Noelle Witherspoon Arnold), is a Senior Associate Dean and Professor in the College of Education and Human Ecology at Ohio State University. She is the first female African American president of the University Council for Educational Administration, an academic organization for those researching educational administration in North America. ^{[1] [ dead link ] [2] [ dead link ]} A former administrator at the district and state level, she has served as a consultant for National Public Radio and throughout the United States advising districts in school improvement, culture and race mediation, STEM leadership for education and teaching and leading in urban and rural contexts. ^[3]

Dr. Arnold has more than 40 publications and her articles have appeared in leading educational journals, including the Teachers College Record , International Journal of Leadership in Education, Journal of Negro Education , International Journal of Educational Reform and the Journal of Educational Administration.^{[ citation needed ]} She has nine books published or in-press including, most recently, the Handbook of Urban Educational Leadership.^{[ citation needed ]} Dr. Arnold serves as the series editor of New Directions in Educational Leadership.^{[ citation needed ]}

Dr. Arnold also serves as Senior Associate Dean at Ohio State University. ^[4] In this role, she leads the Office of Engagement, Discovery, and Global Education that participated in outreach, partnerships and engagement, graduate student training and professional development, and international and global education.

Personal life

Arnold is married to former Ohio State historian Bruce Makoto Arnold. ^{[5] [ better source needed ]}

Publications

• Bruce Makoto Arnold, Roland W. Mitchell, and Noelle W. Arnold, "Massified Illusions of Difference:Photography and the Mystique of the American Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)", in Journal of American Studies of Turkey, 41 (2015): 69–94.

Previous experience

• Affiliate Faculty Member, Black Studies, University of Missouri, (2012–2015)
• Program Coordinator of PK-12 Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Missouri, Columbia (2012–2013)
• Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, University of Missouri-Columbia (2010–2013)
• Affiliate Faculty Member, Women and Gender Studies, Louisiana State University (2010)
• Co-Coordinator for the Educational Leadership Doctoral Program, Louisiana State University (2008–2009)
• Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University, Educational Theory, Policy and Practice (2007–2010)

References

1. "Past Presidents". UCEA: University Council for Educational Administration. Retrieved October 25, 2015.
2. "Organizational History". UCEA: University Council for Educational Administration. Retrieved October 25, 2015.
3. "Educational Studies Directory | College of Education and Human Ecology". ehe.osu.edu. Retrieved August 11, 2025.
4. "EHE OSU Leadership". The Ohio State University: EHE Leadership. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
5. Acknowledgements, Pacific Childhoods in the Rafu: Multiple Transnational Modernisms and the Los Angeles Nisei, 1918-1942^{[ verification needed ]}