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 Phone:
309-677-3593
Email: jtripses@bradley.edu
Jenny Tripses teaches educational leadership courses that prepare graduate for master’s degrees in educational administration and the Illinois Type 75 Administrative Endorsement required by the state of Illinois for all school principals. She teaches courses including Instructional Leadership, Human Resource Management, Leadership Perspectives, The Principalship, Administrative Field Experience and Legal and Social Change. During the Winter Interim, Dr. Tripses alternates between two courses: Spirituality, Leadership and Justice and Leadership in a Diverse Society. Dr. Tripses’ research interests focus primarily on principal preparation reform. Other interests include social justice, leadership of women, and mentoring from the protégé perspective.
Since 2001, she has been involved in the Illinois Council of Professors of Educational Administration. She served as president of ICPEA 2003-05, was a member of the Blue Ribbon Commission convened by the Illinois Board of Higher Education (the final report 2006), co-chaired several statewide committees, most recently the School University Partnership Committee which made recommendations to the Illinois Board of Education. In August 2008, Dr. Tripses was elected to the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration. Dr. Tripses has published four manuscripts related to principal preparation reform and has presented at national and international conferences on this topic. Dr. Tripses is currently the Executive Director of Illinois Women in Educational Leadership (formerly Illinois Women Administrators). She co-authored a book with Linda Lyman and Dianne Ashby entitled Leaders Who Dare which spotlighted the skills of women school leaders in situations where their values conflicted with organizational practices. Dr. Tripses collaborated with Dr. Jana Hunzicker to organize the third biennial Leadership for Diversity Conference held at Bradley University January 2009. Dr. Tripses was an elementary principal for a total of nine years, three years in a small rural school district, and six in a large suburban district. Her public school teaching career included 17 years in Peoria Heights in grades kindergarten through three.
Dr. Tripses received her PhD in educational administration from Illinois State University in 1998. She has a master’s degree in reading (1981) from Illinois State University and a bachelor’s in elementary education (1973) from Bradley University.
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