Rebecca Lake

Rebecca Lake

Program Director and Assistant Professor, Community College Leadership
College of Arts and Sciences

Areas of Expertise

Community colleges; Globalization; Students and the global marketplace

Contact Info

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Campus: Chicago

Email: rebecca.lake@nl.edu

Phone: 312.261.3534

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Biography

Dr. Rebecca Lake is currently assistant professor and program director for the Community College Leadership (CCL) doctoral program at National-Louis University in Chicago. She served on the planning committee for the doctoral program and has been program director since the admission of the first doctoral cohort in Fall 2006. 

Lake has spent her professional adult life involved in college administration, academia, health planning, hospital and health care administration and nursing. Before coming to NLU, she was dean and vice-president in an Illinois community college. Her Ed.D. is in Adult and Continuing Education (ACE), a National-Louis University program where she pursued a special interest in globalization, as well as community college leadership and administration. For her research, Lake traveled around the world interviewing presidents of colleges and universities regarding the factors they employ when making decisions.

Education

EdD from NLU, Adult Education

MS in Health Planning and Policy Issues and MS in Nursing both from University of Wisconsin-Madison

Publications

Lake, Rebecca S. (2009) The Concept of Globalization in the Curriculum: Hidden or Embedded. Levin Institute at SUNY, Research Center of Global Compact. September 2009

Lake, Rebecca S. (2006) How College/University Presidents Around the World Make Decisions. Research in Comparative and International Education. Vol. 1., No. 1., p.64-74. 2006.

Presentations

Daley Community College, 8/13/09 "The Concept of Globalization in the Curriculum"

 

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