University of Vermont ScholarWorks @ UVM Graduate College Dissertations and Theses Dissertations and Theses 2015 Helping Students Find Meaning While Finding My Own: A Scholarly Personal Narrative Navigating Single-Motherhood and a Career in Admissions Amber Rich University of Vermont Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis Part of the Higher Education Commons, and the Higher Education Administration Commons Recommended Citation Rich, Amber, "Helping Students Find Meaning While Finding My Own: A Scholarly Personal Narrative Navigating Single- Motherhood and a Career in Admissions" (2015). Graduate College Dissertations and Theses. 526. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/526 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Dissertations and Theses at ScholarWorks @ UVM. It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate College Dissertations and Theses by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ UVM. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. HELPING STUDENTS FIND MEANING WHILE FINDING MY OWN: A SCHOLARLY PERSONAL NARRATIVE NAVIGATING SINGLE- MOTHERHOOD AND A CAREER IN ADMISSIONS A Dissertation Presented by Amber Rich to The Faculty of the Graduate College of The University of Vermont In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Education Specializing in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies May, 2015 Defense Date: March 27, 2015 Dissertation Examination Committee: Robert J. Nash, Ed.D., Advisor Stuart Whitney, Ed.D., RN, CNS, Chairperson Beth Mintz, Ph.D. Deborah Hunter, Ph.D. Cynthia J. Forehand, Ph.D., Dean of the Graduate College ABSTRACT In this dissertation, I explore my role as an administrator in higher education admissions at a major university and as a working mother who faces many real world challenges.