Josephine Mendoza Kershaw, PhD, FACHE
Fulbright Scholar
Dean of Institutional Effectiveness and Innovation, Jefferson College
Acting Chief Academic Officer and Dean of Instruction, Jefferson College
Dean of Health Professions, North Arkansas College
Professor and Associate Dean, Christ College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Founding Dean, College of Graduate & Undergraduate Studies, Life University
Former President, Great Lakes Region, Accreditation Council of Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP)
Address: 1000 Viking Drive, Hillsboro, MO 63050
Phone: 636-481-3700
E-mail: jkershaw@jeffco.edu
Josephine Mendoza Kershaw, PhD, is a Fulbright Scholar and Dean of Institutional Effectiveness and Innovation at Jefferson College. She has also served as Acting Chief Academic Officer/Dean of Instruction at Jefferson College. Previously, Dr. Kershaw served as Dean of Health Professions at North Arkansas College and Professor/Associate Dean of Health Sciences at the Christ College of Nursing and Health Sciences. Before then, she was the Dean of the College of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies at Life University. She obtained her Ph.D. in the Social Sciences and Education with an emphasis in economics and her M.B.A. with an interdisciplinary specialization in health services policy and administration from Florida State University. She received subsequent training at the Harvard School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, and as a Baldrige National Quality Award Examiner.
Dr. Kershaw has also served as the President of the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) Great Lakes Region. In 2011, Dr. Kershaw was selected as the recipient of the ACBSP International Teaching Excellence Award. When she served as the Director of Assessment and the Capstone Management Simulation Coordinator for the College of Business at the University of Findlay, Dr. Kershaw’s capstone students consistently ranked in the top 10 percent of Capsim teams competing around the world. Previously, Dr. Kershaw taught at Florida A&M University where was the Undergraduate Program Coordinator for the Division of Health Care Management and received the University’s Teacher of the Year Award. Moreover, as the Director of the Minority Resource Development Center, she was the principal investigator of research grants totaling approximately $1 million and has been responsible for over $8 million of federal and private grants.
Prior to entering academia, Dr. Kershaw served as the Director of Evaluation for Florida’s Tobacco Pilot Program under the Executive Office of the Governor, where she managed more than $5 million of grant funding for the evaluation of education, community partnerships, enforcement, and marketing programs. She has also been a senior epidemiologist for the Florida Department of Health and a senior management analyst for the Florida Department of Elder Affairs. Formerly, she served as the editor of the 1993 Florida State Health Plan, and conducted performance reviews of state agency programs for the Florida Legislature. For over a decade, Dr. Kershaw has been a consultant to National Institutes of Health grant review panels, research study sections for other states, as well as for local community-based organizations.
Dr. Kershaw has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals, contributed to numerous evaluation reports, and authored three book chapters. Her achievements include selection as a National Bioethics Research Fellow, a Gerontological Society of America minority pre-doctoral leadership fellow, and an Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment, Advocacy, and Leadership fellow. She was a Rotary Foundation Scholar and invited participant for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Connections Program, as well as the Roundtable on Aging at Oxford University. Dr. Kershaw also has graduate certificates in human resource development, evaluation, and gerontology. Her research interests are in the areas of community paramedicine, quality and performance excellence, health disparities and human rights, tobacco and HIV/AIDS prevention, health policy and program evaluation.