Student affairs career led to college presidency

Abstract

When Donna Brown applied for a fellowship as a student affairs professional working toward her doctorate degree, the application process required her to come up with a “lofty long‐term goal.” Acknowledging her start as a student at a tribal college, she thought, “my life would come full circle if I ever became a president of a tribal college,” she now recalls. “At that time, I don’t know if I believed it, but I wrote that as my long‐term goal,” she added.