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Dr. Brenita Nicholas-Edwards
Assistant Vice President for Global Engagement
Department
Administration
Biography
Professional Experience
Mount Vernon Nazarene University, Mount Vernon, OH
- Assistant Vice President for Global Engagement, 2022 – present
- Director of the Fairbanks Center for Global Engagement, 2021 – present
- Professor of Intercultural Studies, 2021 – present
- Assistant Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness, 2016-2022
- Professor of Social Work, 2013 – 2021
Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary, TayTay, Philippines
- Adjunct Professor of Comparative Research Methods and Dissertation Mentor, 2018 – present
Bethany Global, Grand Rapids, MI
- Director of Regional Operations, 2011 – 2013
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
- Adjunct Instructor and Fulltime Doctoral Research, 2010 – 2011
Mount Vernon Nazarene University, Mount Vernon, OH
- Associate Professor of Social Work, 1995 – 2010
- Coordinator of HLC Reaffirmation of Accreditation, 2005 – 2010
- Social Work Field Education Director, 1995 – 2005
Horizons Mental Health Center, Hutchinson, KS
- Clinical Social Worker, 1993 – 1995
Awards and Recognitions
Mount Vernon Nazarene University, Mount Vernon, OH
- President’s Award for Faculty Member of the Year, 2017-2018
- President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2005- 2006
U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC
- Fulbright Fellow, 2002 – 2003, Grant funded 12-months of qualitative field work and semi-structured interviews exploring the needs, networks (the creation and use of social capital), and resiliencies among Romanian street children in Bucharest, Romania.
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
- Phi Kappa Phi Academic Honor’s Society, May 2012 (doctoral studies)
- College of Social Work Full Tuition Fellowship, 1992-1993
- Phi Kappa Phi Academic Honor’s Society, May 1993 (graduate studies)
Degrees
- Ph.D. in International Social Work with concentrations in Social Development and Research, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (2011)
- M.S.W. with a Clinical concentration in Child and Family Welfare, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (1993)
- B.S. in Social Work, Olivet Nazarene University, Kankakee, Illinois (1991)