{"id":5170,"date":"2023-11-10T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/?p=5170"},"modified":"2024-12-22T19:00:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T14:00:56","slug":"toni-draper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/toni-draper\/","title":{"rendered":"Telling Our History: Frances Murphy Draper (Toni), D.MIN., CERT \u201980, MBA \u201981"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5170\" class=\"elementor elementor-5170\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2b95bf5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2b95bf5\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-58a61c2\" data-id=\"58a61c2\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-66a3e04 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"66a3e04\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>BY IJEOMA NWATU<\/p><div><figure id=\"attachment_7093\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7093\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7093\" src=\"https:\/\/www.willettassociates.com\/ubalt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Draper-850x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"843\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7093\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CHRIS MYERS PHOTOGRAPHY<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><blockquote><p>BIO<\/p><ul><li>Certificate \u201980, MBA \u201981,\u00a0Merrick School of Business<\/li><li>Family matriarch<\/li><li>Board chair, president and fourth-generation publisher, <em>The AFRO American<\/em> Newspapers<\/li><li>Founding pastor, Freedom Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church<\/li><\/ul><\/blockquote><p>In the early 1980s, The University of Baltimore\u2019s Certificate in Women\u2019s Management might have been regarded as something of a novelty, but <strong>Frances Murphy Draper (Toni), D.Min., CERT \u201980, MBA \u201981<\/strong>, recalled her time as a student in the program fondly, saying, \u201cI remember how supportive it was.\u201d<\/p><p>At the time, Draper was juggling many responsibilities\u2014including being a working professional, mother and wife\u2014and appreciated the intentionality of the course and its removal of barriers for women like herself. The 14-month program alternated weekends and helped to develop her leadership skills. \u201cIt was very, very unique; the thoughtfulness around how women learn and lead, how women have to juggle so many things.\u201d For example, she recalled a particularly impactful lesson about how to be assertive in the boardroom without being labeled aggressive.<br \/><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/div> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/toni-draper\/#more-5170\" class=\"more-link elementor-more-link\"><span aria-label=\"Continue reading Telling Our History: Frances Murphy Draper (Toni), D.MIN., CERT \u201980, MBA \u201981\">(more&hellip;)<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY IJEOMA NWATU BIO Certificate \u201980, MBA \u201981,\u00a0Merrick School of Business Family matriarch Board chair, president and fourth-generation publisher, The AFRO American Newspapers Founding pastor, Freedom Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church In the early 1980s, The University of Baltimore\u2019s Certificate in Women\u2019s Management might have been regarded as something of a novelty, but Frances [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4463,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5170"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7837,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170\/revisions\/7837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}