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Margaret Asalele Mbilizi
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Margaret Asalele Mbilizi has extensive experience and expertise in international education and higher education policy and practice. She held several leadership and executive positions in Malawi including being the Deputy University Registrar, Special Assistant to the State President, Executive Director of the Bakili Muluzi Institute for Social and Economic Transformation, and Director of Higher Education in the Ministry of Education. She has received competitive prestigious awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the World Bank, and the American Association of University Women. Her research focuses on gender socialization in education, women in higher education, flexible learning systems, and girl's educational access and persistence in developing countries. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in foundations of education and currently teaches graduate courses in the administration of higher education, legal aspects of higher education, business management in higher education, student development theory, cultural diversity in adult and higher education, and critical and feminist pedagogy. She is the current director of the Office of International Initiatives in the College of Education.
Mbilizi, M.A. (in press). Gender identity development of African students: Implications for building global campus communities. Thresholds in Education. Spring 2008.
Mbilizi, M.A. (in press). Factors affecting female development and participation in the Malawian economy. African Business and Economic Review. Fall 2008.
Mbilizi, MA. (2007). The human consequences of globalization in the Third World: Implications for higher education policy and practice. Illinois Committee on Black Concerns in Higher Education (ICBCHE) Journal. Volume 24, Number 1, Spring: pp 1-7
Mbilizi, M.A. (2007). The impact of single-sex education on African girl's expectations and aspirations for higher education and non-traditional occupations: The case of Malawi. Illinois Committee on Black Concerns in Higher Education (ICBCHE) Journal. Volume 24, Number 1, Spring: pp 20-31.
Mbilizi, M.A. (1999). Gender policy and sustainable development in Sub -Saharan Africa: A model for cultural transformation and renewal. The African Economic and Business Review. Volume 2, No. 1 & 2. Fall: pp 22-37. http://www.theaebr.com/issues.html
Mbilizi, M.A. (2008). Micro finance in developing countries: Creating Pathways for enterprising women. A presentation made during the Women's History Month. Northern Illinois University. March 18.
Mbilizi, M.A. (2007). Living on the margins in a pluralistic society: An African woman's perspective. Keynote Speech given at the College of Lake County's Annual Gender Conference on E-racing Prejudice, Engendering Equality: Grayslake, Illinois. April 12. Published as conference proceedings.
Mbilizi, M.A. (2007). Struggling to survive by African women and girls: Analysis from a human rights-based perspective. A paper presented at the Commission on International Adult Education (CIAE) of the American Association of Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE). Published as proceedings of the CIAE Pre-Conference. Oct 29. Norfolk, Virginia.
Mbilizi, M.A. and Thomas, C. (2007). Ethnic women scholars in American Universities: Marginalization and exclusion. A presentation at the American Association of Adult and Higher Education Annual Conference. Norfolk, Virginia. Oct. 31.
Mbilizi, M.A. (2006). Adult basic education and literacy among women and girls in Sub-Saharan Africa: Comparing technical and feminist discourses. A paper presented at the Commission on International Adult Education (CIAE) of the American Association of Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE). Published as proceedings of the CIAE Pre-Conference. Milwaukie, Wisconsin. Nov. 5.
Mbilizi, M.A. (2001). Gender equity in Malawian tertiary education and employment: Unequal opportunities and violence against women. A paper presented at a SADC workshop on institutional transformation for Southern African tertiary institutions : Johannesburg, South Africa : 16-18th July 2001. http://www.gwsafrica.org/knowledge/malaw.html
Mbilizi, M.A. (in press). My Race to Parliament: Wrestling with issues of poverty, violence, and gender marginalization. American Book Publishing.