Meet the Faculty and Staff
Anita Fitzgerald Henck, Ph.D.
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Phone: (626) 387-5723
Email: ahenck@apu.edu
Anita Henck, Ph.D., is associate professor in APU’s Department of Doctoral Higher Education and director of the Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership program at Azusa Pacific University, in addition to being the department chair for College Student Development/Organizational Leadership.
Prior to joining APU’s faculty in 2006, she served as vice president for student development & retention and professor at Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, MA. There, she helped develop and was the lead professor in a master’s program in higher education administration. During those years, Henck was also part of a multi-campus research team studying the faith development of college students through the Templeton-funded Faithful Change research project.
Prior to her eight years at ENC, she spent 19 years at American University in Washington, D.C. where she served in a variety of administrative roles, including assistant to the provost. She was a Greenberg Scholar and Doctoral Fellow in American’s School of Education where she taught in undergraduate and graduate programs in education, leadership, and higher education administration. Henck’s research interests include leadership transitions in higher education, organizational culture and change, and collaborative engagement.
