Shippensburg University Magazine, Spring 2021

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I N F I N I T E POSSIBILITIES Educator, Pennsylvania Superintendent of the Year, author—for Dr. Khalid Mumin ’95, 2020 was a year of achievement despite the challenges. ach year, the Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators selects a Superintendent of the Year. The individual is acknowledged for their leadership for learning, communication skills, professionalism and community involvement. All traits one might say this year’s winner, Dr. Khalid Mumin ’95, superintendent of the Reading School District, wrote the book about. And this past year, he actually wrote a book. In his new book, Problem Child: Leading Students Living in Poverty Towards Infinite Possibilities of Success, Mumin shares much of his personal childhood experience as a “problem child.” He helps readers to examine “the historical constructs of youth growing up in poverty and emphasizes the ways in which influential mentorship have become one of the major pillars of success.” The importance of mentors is something he’s witnessed in his tenure in education, but also during his experience at Ship. “As an educator, I had some of the greatest teachers and professors here that really helped me to be successful in my career,” Mumin said during a fall visit to campus. And during that visit, President Laurie A. Carter congratulated Mumin on his Superintendent of the Year honor and presented him with an award acknowledging his alma mater’s pride in his career defining achievement. When Mumin stepped in to lead one of the largest urban school districts in the state, which also was one of the poorest, he faced unsettled budgets, failing infrastructure and eight bargaining units without contracts for five years. With a 32

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