E Paulette Isaac-Savage, Ed.D.

Dr. E Paulette Isaac-Savage, Ed.D. is a Professor of Adult Education and Faculty Advisor for the UMSL Missouri-Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation. She was inducted into the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame in 2019. Recent honors include:

2024 – Illustrious Chapter Champion Award, UMSL African American Alumni Chapter

2024 – President’s Appreciation Award, American Association for Adult and Continuing Education

2024 – Career Achievement Award, Commission for Professors of Adult Education/American Association for Adult and Continuing Education

2024 – Exceptional Research and Service in the Field, Adult Higher Education Alliance

2023 – Dr. Paulette Isaac-Savage Excellence in Service and Leadership Award (inaugural recipient), UMSL Black Faculty and Staff Association

Recent Publications

Books

Garry, V., & Isaac-Savage, E. P., & Williams, S. L. (Eds.). (2023). Black cultural capital: Activism that spurred African American high schools. Information Age Publishers.

Monaghan, C. H., Isaac-Savage, E. P., & Putman, P. G. (Eds.). (2024). Career pathways through adult education: Perspectives and opportunities. Routledge.

Selected Book Chapters and Articles

Garry, V., & Isaac-Savage, E. P. (2023). Jim Crow to the Civil Rights movement: The University of Missouri’s Black faculty, staff, and student organizations fight back! In D. Alridge, J. Hale, & T. Loder-Jackson (Eds.), Schooling the movement: The Activism of Southern Black Educators from Reconstruction through the Civil Rights Era (pp. 187-204). University of South Carolina Press. (Invited)

Isaac-Savage, E. P., & Garry, V. (2023). Sumner High School. In. V. Garry, E. P. Isaac-Savage, & S. L. Williams (Eds.), Black cultural capital: Activism that spurred African American high schools (pp. 49-72). Information Age Publishers.

Hill, L. H., & Isaac-Savage, E. P. (2022). Doors slam shut: Adult education program closures. New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2022(173/174), 67-79. doi: 10.1002/ace.20453

Monaghan, C. H. & Isaac-Savage, E. P. (2022). Community, intersectionality, and social justice in critical HRD. In J. Collins & J. Callahan (Eds.), Handbook of critical HRD (pp. 307-323). Palgrave. (Invited) *Book was selected to receive the 2022 R. Wayne Pace HRD Book of the Year Award at the Academy of HRD conference.  

Isaac-Savage E. P., & Merriweather, L. M. (2021). Preparing adult educators for racial justice. New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education 2021, 109-118. https://doi.org/10.1002/ace.20430

Current Research Projects

• Instructional Perspectives of Christian Educators in the Black Church
• Tenure Experiences of Black Nursing Faculty
• Black Faculty and Staff Associations at Predominately White Public Institutions
• Historical Faith-Based Adult Education
• The Black Church and White Christian Nationalism

Select Memberships

• American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (President 2022-2023)
• American Association of Blacks in Higher Education
• Black Faculty/Staff Association
• Commission for Professors of Adult Education (CPAE)
• Missouri Association for Adult Continuing and Community Education
• Religious Education Association

Published Research Areas

• Adult Education/Development
• Black Education
• Distance Learning
• Health Disparities
• Religion and Spirituality