Angela Owusu-Ansah (PhD)
Professor and Provost
Professor Angela Owusu-Ansah brings more than thirty years of academic and administrative experience in the United States and Ghana, to her current role as Provost of Ashesi University. A member of the Phi Kappa Phi community of scholars and professionals, she strives for higher education quality serving on national university accreditation agency boards such as the Ghana Tertiary Education Council (GTEC) and serving 18 years on the United States Council for Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP, formerly NCATE).
With her education background in behavior statistics, she’s a proponent of measuring impact of higher education quality; contributing to the development of Africa’s first university ranking system designed to embolden southern theory, systems change in Africa’s universities, the continent, and better higher education quality.
Angela is trained in higher education leadership and has served as Samford University’s Assistant Dean of Education Assessment; Elon University’s Associate Dean of the School of Education and Associate Dean of Access and Success; and a Board Member on one of the ten Regional Education Laboratories (SERVE) in the United States contributing to policy direction and implementation to support research in education.
She has deepened her experiences in e-learning and digital education and is actively involved in developing information systems, such as Learning Management Systems, for African universities. She’s growing in the scholarship of teaching and learning for optimization of faculty instruction, the science of learning to improve student learning, and research capacity building to advance higher education outcomes and African communities.
Her research interest is in impact evaluation and change in Africa’s higher education, specifically digitized higher education instruction, the scholarship of higher education teaching and learning as a science, and data for the future of African Higher Education (ML and research) on the continent for change.
- Research Methods
- Capstone Seminar
- Creativity and Research Internship (CaRine)
- Impact Evaluation and Change in African Higher Education
- Digitized Higher Education Instruction
- The Scholarship of Teaching and LearningÂ
- Data acquisition and use for the Future of African Higher Education
- Agyepong, S., Owusu-Ansah, A., & Ohene Annoh, W. (2020). Ashesi’s 360 Approach to Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic. International Studies in Educational Administration. Accepted for publication.
- Kondor, C., Owusu-Ansah, A., & Keyne-Michaels, L. (2019). Intercultural fortuitous learning: Preparing prospective teachers to teach culturally diverse populations. Multicultural Education, 26(3/4), 17-26.
- Miller Dyce, C., & Owusu-Ansah, A. (2016). Yes, we are still talking about diversity: Diversity education as a catalyst for transformative, culturally responsive, and reflective teacher practices. Journal of Transformative Education, 14(4), 327-354.
- Owusu-Ansah, A. (2012). Using Hofstede’s dimensions and Hollin’s structured dialogue to develop cultural conduits. In E. J. Francois (Ed.), Transcultural Blended Learning and Teaching in Postsecondary Education (pp. 52-74.), Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
- Owusu-Ansah, A., Niell, P., & Haralson, M. (2011). Distance education: Higher education barriers during the first decade of the Twenty-First Century The Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 14(2).
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Higher Education Administration with a minor in Quantitative Research & Statistics and Instructional Technology, The University of Southern Mississippi
- Master’s degree, Educational Leadership and Administration, The College of New Jersey (Mallorca)
- Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Psychology and Minor in Sociology, University of Ghana
