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Dr. Paula Myrick Short
is vice chancellor for Academic Affairs of the Tennessee Board of Regents.
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She earned her Ph.D. in administration and supervision in the Department of Organizational Development and Institutional Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to joining the Board of Regents, Short served as associate vice president for Academic Affairs for the University of Missouri System. She was a tenured professor and former department chair in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She was program chair and associate professor in Educational Administration at The Pennsylvania State University and was associate professor and director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Educational Leadership, Foundations, and Technology at Auburn University. She also taught and held administrative positions in the North Carolina public schools, including the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. She is a tenured professor at Tennessee State University.
A nationally recognized scholar and researcher in the field of educational administration, Short was chosen as the recipient of the 1993 Jack A. Culbertson Award, given nationally by the University Council for Educational Administration to the outstanding professor of educational administration who, within the first 10 years in the professorship, made distinguished contributions in research.
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Short has published seven books and more than 75 scholarly articles. She has made more than 112 national and international scholarly presentations. She has also won three teaching awards from the University of Missouri-Columbia and has served as a consultant to numerous universities across the nation.
Short has been president of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration, the Southern Regional Council on Education Administration, and the University Council for Educational Administration, a consortium of 60 research universities in the U.S. and Canada that prepares educational leaders. She also served as a member of the Washington-based National Policy Board for Educational Administration. She conducts leadership training nationally.
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