Assistant Professor
Email: AlbertoL@felician.edu
Phone: (201) 559-3546
Office Location: Office 12, Sammartino Hall, Rutherford Campus
Academic Accomplishments
- Leadership Certificate Program from Harvard School of Education, 2019
- Doctor of Education- Educational Leadership, Policy, and Management from Seton Hall University, 2018
- Masters of Science- Counseling from Mercy College, 2008
- Bachelor of Arts, Spanish Literature/ Middle and High School Education from Herbert Lehman College, 2005
Biography
Dr. Alberto is an Assistant Professor and Program Director of Ed. Leadership at Felician University. Her research interest is focused on School Leadership, Mentoring, Social Capital, Diversity and Inclusion, Cultural Intelligence, and Cultural Competency.
Dr. Alberto’s career began as a permanent elementary substitute teacher in the Bronx, progressing into several years of teaching Spanish in middle and high school. Her classroom experiences as a New York City Public School educator quickly demonstrated the critical need of inner-city students with disadvantaged families for help outside the classroom. Dr.Aberto turned to counseling in urban and suburban schools for eight years, helping a diversity of students navigate the difficult transitions from middle school to high school and then to college while addressing social and emotional difficulties and academic challenges.
Driven to serve her students as broadly as possible, Dr. Alberto be came the Director of Assessment Teaching and Learning for the Bergenfield Public School District in New Jersey, leading the assessments of a pool of approximately 3000 students while improving district-wide standardized testing and data analysis. Later, she became the Director of an Alternative high school for students at risk of not graduating from high school.
Dr. Alberto has presented her research related to equity, mentoring, and social capital in leadership for women and minorities at numerous state and national conferences. In addition, she actively volunteers her time as a Commissioner on the Middle States Commission on Secondary Schools.
Courses Taught at Felician University
- EDU 535: School Finance and the Economics of Education
- EDU 645: School Law and Policy Regulation Administration
- EDU 660: Supervision of Personnel and Performance Appraisal
- EDU 670: Supervision and Organizational Administration
- EDU 690: Current Trends and Issues in Curriculum Development II
- EDU 701: Data-Informed Leadership
- EDU 622: School and Community Relations
- EDU 715: Internship Administration I
- EDU 720: Internship Administration II
Publications, Presentations, and Professional Contributions
- Ligia V. Alberto, (April 11, 2023). Mentoring Relationships as Social Capital in the Career Advancement of Women of Color. IICE Ireland International Conference on Education. Dublin, Ireland.
- Ligia V. Alberto, (October 18, 2022). Using Social Capital as Well as Your Own Students to Recruit, Develop, and Retain a Diverse and Competent Teaching and Administrative Team. 5th Annual Convening on Diversifying the Teacher Workforce. Rutger University, Newark, NJ
- Ligia V. Alberto, (September 30, 2021). Building Networks and Social Capital to Increase Opportunities for Under-represented Teachers and Administrators. AASA, NJPSA, NJASA Women’s Leadership Conference, Somerset, NJ.
- Ligia V. Alberto, (March 31, 2019). Mentoring Relationships and Social Capital in Hiring School Administrators. National School Board Association, Philadelphia, PA.
- Ligia V. Alberto, (36th Spring Leadership Conference. May 16-18, 2018).Growing Your Own Administrators Through Building Social Capital. New Jersey Association of School Administrators, Atlantic City, NJ.
- Alberto, Ligia Veronica, “Mentoring Relationships as Social Capital in the Career Advancement of Latina School Administrators” (2018). Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs).https://scholarship.shu.edu/dissertations/2501.
- Ligia Alberto, (April 19, 2015). Challenges of the 20th Century Education. Voices from the Hall. Seton Hall University, NJ.
