Aleta Crawford

Aleta Crawford serves as an Instructional Assistant Professor of Management within the Department of Management at the School of Business Administration, University of Mississippi. She teaches Principles of Management (MGMT 371) and Human Resource Management (MGMT 383) across the Tupelo, Booneville, Grenada, and Southaven campuses, with office contact at 1918 Briar Ridge Road and phone 662-915-6229.

Education:

• Bachelor of Public Accounting (BPA) in Accounting from Mississippi State University (1988)
• Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from Mississippi State University (1997)
• Ph.D. in Business Administration (Strategic Management) from Mississippi State University (2002)

Research Focus: Crawford investigates innovative pedagogical methods to create meaningful, contextually relevant business education that drives academic excellence. Her work emphasizes leadership development frameworks and the acquisition of organizational skill sets that confer competitive advantage, with significant attention to systemic barriers and influence dynamics of underrepresented faculty in U.S. business schools as evidenced by her Academy of Management workshops.

Professional Engagement: She integrates practical leadership experience from strategic roles in public/private school systems, local governments, and civic organizations into her academic practice, focusing on real-world applicability of management principles.

Scientific Awards: No awards, fellowships, or medals are documented in the source material.

Advising and Grants: The text lacks details about student advisement or external grant funding. Her professional development workshops indicate knowledge transfer activities but no formal mentoring relationships or sponsored research projects are specified.

Labs and Teams: No dedicated research laboratories or academic teams are described; however, her strategic leadership roles in non-academic organizational boards provide applied context for her pedagogical approach.