The Odyssey of a North American Educator

About the Book

The Odyssey of a North American Educator portrays my travel as an educator on five continents. As an elementary and secondary school teacher and principal and as a College administrator and professor, my work took me into Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, and Ohio. I traveled into thirty states as a federal education officer.

At the Ohio State University, I recruited more than four thousand minority students and developed a program that enabled one hundred and eighty-one teachers from Nigeria to get degrees.

My total travel of 669,600 miles includes North America, South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia.

About the Author

William Jimmerson Holloway was born in Smithfield, Virginia, and received degrees from Hampton, Michigan, and Illinois Universities. Dr. Holloway has held professorships at Saint Augustine’s College, Savannah State University, North Carolina Central University, and the Ohio State University. As a federal education officer, he traveled in thirty states desegregating schools. At Ohio State, he organized the Office of Minority Affairs, recruiting four thousand students in eight years, and developed the Nigerian Education Program, where 181 teachers from Nigeria earned degrees. For four years he was Editor-in-Chief of The Negro Educational Review. His travels were widespread on five continents.