The HistoryMakers video oral history with Sondra Akins.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016].
Description1 online resource (9 video files (4 hr., 18 min., 45 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2012.108
Subjects

Other author/creatorAkins, Sondra, 1944- interviewee.
Other author/creatorCrowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Other author/creatorHickey, Matthew, director of photography.
Other author/creatorHistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Variant title History Makers video oral history with Sondra Akins
Portion of title Sondra Akins
Abstract Education professor and chemist Sondra Akins was born on March 16, 1944 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Akins earned her B.S. degree in chemistry in 1967 from the University of California, Berkeley. She received her M.S. degree in chemistry from Florida State University in 1970. Akins worked as a science teacher at Greco Junior High School before becoming a chemistry professor at St. Petersburg Junior College, Hillsborough Community College and Northern Virginia Community College. Akins began her long career at the Englewood Public School District in New Jersey in 1983 where she started as a science and mathematics teacher. She went on to become a director of mathematics, science, and technology, principal and a staff developer. In 1993, she received her Ed.D. degree in science education from Columbia University. From 2001, Akins worked as a professor in the Department of Secondary and Middle School Education at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey.
CreditsVideographer, Matthew Hickey.
Performer Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Teaneck, New Jersey 2012 May 15.
Source of descriptionVendor-supplied metadata.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formInterviews.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Stock numberA2012.108 HistoryMakers

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