Barbara A. Williams

Associate Professor of Elementary Education 

Office Phone: 252-334-2094
Email: barbara.williams@macuniversity.edu

Education:
     B.A. in English and Elementary Education, Milligan College
     M.Ed. in Reading Education K-12, George Mason University
     Ed.D. in Educational Leadership (Curriculum and Instruction), East Carolina University

Courses Taught:
     Educational Psychology

Brief Biography:

Dr. Williams is a native of Bel Air Maryland.  With her teaching degree from Milligan College in hand, she returned to Maryland to teach fourth grade.  Two years later, she married a Coast Guard Officer and began the adventures associated with moving every two to four years.  As a result she taught in NJ, Fl, VA, CA, and HI.  Being stationed in DC gave the opportunity for Barbara to complete a master’s degree in reading at George Mason University.  When she moved to Elizabeth City, NC she took on the role of middle school teacher, a new experience for her.  She also started and coordinated a church preschool in the area. 

Shortly after the move to North Carolina her husband Commander Ernie Williams suddenly went to be with the Lord.  When their two children went off to college, Barbara went back to school at East Carolina University where she completed a doctorate in Administration and Supervision with an emphasis on curriculum and instruction. 

For the next several years Barbara worked as an instructional specialist and a school administrator with the Elizabeth City/Pasquotank Schools.  Barbara was then called to teach at Longwood University and remained there for five years.  She coordinated the Partnership field experience and taught numerous literacy classes for PreK-12 licensure in both the undergraduate and graduate programs.    

After being widowed for eighteen years, she married her next-door neighbor, Buck Jolly, then a principal with the school system.  Though thoroughly enjoying her work at Longwood, it became time to come back home on a permanent basis.

Barbara promised the Lord when she was eight years old that she would work for Him all her life.  As a result she has taught Sunday school, directed and taught in VBS, worked with children’s choirs and bell choirs, sang in gospel groups and choirs, and lead a praise team while a member of various churches all across the United States.  She currently teaches in the Awana program and has been on various committees for the church.

After taking the fall semester off, Barbara returns to the classroom at MACU.  She truly believes she was being prepared for this particular position.  She feels she has been called to work with students at MACU.