Noelle W. Arnold

Noelle W. Arnold, Ph.D. (sometimes listed as Noelle Witherspoon Arnold), is a Senior Associate Dean and Professor in the College of Education and Human Ecology at Ohio State University. She is the first female African American president of the University Council for Educational Administration, an academic organization for those researching educational administration in North America.

Education Dr. Arnold attended the University of Alabama. There, she earned her PhD in Educational Administration.

Career Dr. Arnold began her academic career in 2007 at Louisiana State University, where she served as an Assistant Professor in Educational Theory, Policy and Practice until 2010.

Dr. Arnold subsequently joined Ohio State University's Department of Educational Studies, where she was named an Associate Professor by 2015. Additionally, she has served as Senior Associate Dean at Ohio State University. In this role, she has lead the Office of Engagement, Discovery, and Global Education that participated in outreach, partnerships and engagement, graduate student training and professional development, and international and global education.

Publications Dr. Arnold has more than 40 publications and her articles have appeared in leading educational journals, including the Teachers College Record, International Journal of Leadership in Education, Journal of Negro Education, International Journal of Educational Reform and the Journal of Educational Administration. She has nine books published or in-press including, most recently, the Handbook of Urban Educational Leadership.

Dr. Arnold serves as the series editor of New Directions in Educational Leadership. Bruce Makoto Arnold, Roland W. Mitchell, and Noelle W. Arnold, "Massified Illusions of Difference:Photography and the Mystique of the American Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)", in Journal of American Studies of Turkey, 41 (2015): 69–94. Personal life Arnold is married to former Ohio State historian Bruce Makoto Arnold.