Biography

Sally Z. Hare is Distinguished Professor Emerita at Coastal Caroline University and President of Still Learning, Inc. A native of Charleston, SC, she is a product of South Carolina public schools from first grade through Ph.D. Sally attended the Harvard Institute on School Leadership in 1995, received the 2002 Woman of Achievement Award from the South Carolina Governor's Commission on Women, and was named Phenomenal Woman in South Carolina in 2004 by The State newspaper. Coastal Carolina University named her the Outstanding Teacher Scholar Lecturer in 2001, where she held the Grant and Elizabeth Singleton Endowed Chair, and created the Center for Education and Community, based on her Kellogg Learning Plan. Formerly Dean of Graduate and Continuing Education at Coastal, Sally is a teacher and a learner. Grateful for her own education in South Carolina public schools, she taught early childhood and elementary school, remedial reading and math at the high school level, and she has taught pre-service and in-service teachers in undergraduate and graduate education at two state institutions of higher education. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Alaska at Juneau and at the University of New England. She currently serves as a mentor and research consultant to the Center for Courage Renewal and has facilitated Circle of Trust programs in South Carolina, Michigan, New York, Kentucky, Montana, North Carolina, Georgia, Oregon, Missouri, as well as Canada and Australia. Sally is active in her community and is a graduate of Leadership South Carolina and Leadership Grand Strand. She is the founding president of the Community Coalition of Horry County and has served on the boards of the Children's Museum of South Carolina, United Way, and Volunteers in Probation. She served on the Governor's Business-Education Commission from 1992-1996. She also served on the advisory board for National Public Television's "Tutu and Franklin: A Journey Towards Peace." Sally was selected for a three-year Kellogg National Fellowship in 1990. As a fellow, she had the opportunity to explore the concept of community across cultures and traveled widely, including Greece, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, and much of the United States. She spent time with President Mary Robinson, the head of Ireland, and attended the Global Forum of Women in Dublin. She has received various grants, including two totaling more than $1 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to encourage women and girls in math and science; a grant from the Kellogg Foundation for $25,000; and a Community Action Grant from the American Association of University Women. Other honors include the Ambassador Award for Education from the Louis Gregory Baha'i Institute; the Creative Programming Award from the National Continuing Education Association; Distinguished Leadership Award from the National Community Leadership Association; the Martha Kime Piper Outstanding Leadership Award from SC Women in Higher Education Administration; and Outstanding Continuing Educator in South Carolina. Sally lives in Surfside Beach, SC, with her husband Jim R. Rogers and two dogs, Eleanor Roosevelt and TBO, and is the author of" Let the Beauty We Love Be What We Do: Stories of the Journey to Living Divided No More" and a children's book, "Lucas and the Terribly-Trying Trying-Terribly Test."