Betty Alford

Betty Alford, PhD, is a professor, department chair, and doctoral program co-director of the Educational Leadership Doctoral Program at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Alford's research agenda has centered on leadership for equity and excellence in high need schools, program improvement for educational leadership programs, and sustaining a college-going culture in schools. She has been a faculty member teaching in this doctoral program for eleven years with previous experience as a professor at Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas where she also served as doctoral program director and department chair. Alford attained her doctoral degree from the University of Texas at Austin.