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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Sondra Akins.

Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Sondra Akins.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Available Online

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Akins, Sondra, 1944-
  • Crowe, Larry F.
  • Hickey, Matthew
  • HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Description
1 online resource (9 video files (4 hr., 18 min., 45 sec.)) : sound, color.
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.
Alternative Title
  • History Makers video oral history with Sondra Akins
  • Sondra Akins
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Internet videos.
  • Interviews.
  • Nonfiction films.
  • Oral histories.
Credits (note)
  • Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
OCLC
994208695
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Sondra Akins.
Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Country of Producing Entity
United States. naf
Playing Time
041845
Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Digital File Characteristics
video file
Performer
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Event
Recorded Teaneck, New Jersey 2012 May 15.
Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Indexed Term
Education Professor Chemist.
Added Author
Akins, Sondra, 1944- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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