Professor Rita Coombs Richardson, Ph.D., Deemed a 2015 Top Female Professional

    HOUSTON, TX, October 21, 2015 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Professor Rita Coombs Richardson, Ph.D., Professor at the University of Houston-Victoria, has been named a Worldwide Branding Top Female Professional of the Year in Higher Education. While inclusion in Worldwide Branding is an honor, only small selections of members in each discipline are chosen for this distinction. These special honorees are distinguished based on their professional accomplishments, academic achievements, leadership abilities, years of service, and the credentials they have provided in association with their Worldwide Branding membership.

With 33 years of invaluable contributions to the field of education, Dr. Richardson has achieved success as a professor at the University of Houston-Victoria, where she utilizes her expertise in educational administration to develop online and on-site curricula for graduate level courses. She also teaches online and hybrid graduate courses in educational administration. Additionally, Dr. Richardson is responsible for visiting various school districts and recruiting participants for a Title V grant she proposed. She is pleased to announce that she received a federal grant totaling $1.1 million to fund her proposal to train teachers to work with autistic children.

Prior to teaching at the University of Houston-Victoria, Dr. Richardson was granted full professorship at Southeastern Louisiana University where she fully participated in their Special Education program Additionally she was a faculty member in the Department of Special Education at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and at the University of Texas in Brownsville, Texas.

Dr. Richardson wrote a book on behavior management titled, "Discipline Options: Establishing a Positive School Climate." It is co-authored by Charles Meisgeier and published by Christopher-Gordon Publishers, Inc. She has also written four volumes of a social skills curriculum for student in grades kindergarten to 12th grade titled "Connecting with Others: Lessons for Teaching Social and Emotional Competence" published by Research Press Publishers.

The advice that Dr. Richardson would give the younger generation of women entering the workforce would be to follow her motto: "One person can make a difference." There are many organizations that have made a difference in her career, one of which is Kappa Delta Pi. Additionally, Dr. Richardson is an active member of Phi Delta Kappa International, the Association for Science Teacher Education, and the Council for Exceptional Children, as well as the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

After working in the public school system and finding herself attracted to special education, Dr. Richardson decided that she wanted to help children with both learning and behavioral disorders. When she formerly worked with children in New Orleans, Dr. Richardson encountered a girl in an alternative school who wanted Dr. Richardson to be her "nanee' (mentor or godmother). With Dr. Richardson's guidance, the girl finished high school, went on to Xavier University and became a social worker. Today, the girl is back in New Orleans, doing what Dr. Richardson did for her: changing children's lives.

Dr. Richardson began studying for a bachelor's degree at Loyola University in New Orleans and completed her program at Dominican College in Houston in 1971, Dr. Richardson went on to earn a Master of Special Education from the University of Houston in 1974, followed by a Ph.D. in education administration from the University of New Orleans in 1981. An outstanding example of success in her field, Dr. Richardson has been recognized as a 2015 Top Female Professional by Worldwide Branding and was selected for inclusion among the Elite American Educators in 2011.

In years to come, Dr. Richardson hopes to write more and continue teaching. She also plans to write a book about personality types and show teachers how to use her book in order to discover students' learning styles; her personality tool is called the "Richardson Inventory of Personality Types" and was compared to the Myers Briggs Type Indicator.

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