Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Sondra Akins
Sondra Akins
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| Other authors / contributors: | Akins, Sondra, 1944- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Teaneck, New Jersey 2012 May 15.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Education professor and chemist Sondra Akins was born on March 16, 1944 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Akins earned her B.S. degree in chemistry in 1967 from the University of California, Berkeley. She received her M.S. degree in chemistry from Florida State University in 1970. Akins worked as a science teacher at Greco Junior High School before becoming a chemistry professor at St. Petersburg Junior College, Hillsborough Community College and Northern Virginia Community College. Akins began her long career at the Englewood Public School District in New Jersey in 1983 where she started as a science and mathematics teacher. She went on to become a director of mathematics, science, and technology, principal and a staff developer. In 1993, she received her Ed.D. degree in science education from Columbia University. From 2001, Akins worked as a professor in the Department of Secondary and Middle School Education at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey.
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