Elizabeth M. Hodge, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership in East Carolina University’s College of Education. Hodge also serves as the lead administrator for the North Carolina New Teacher Support Program, an induction program designed to increase teacher effectiveness, enhance skills, and reduce attrition among beginning teachers. Over the last 26 years, she has held various academic administrative and faculty positions. She has taught finance, leadership, management, entrepreneurship, research design, human-centered design, and instructional design at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She earned her BS from Ithaca College, MS from East Carolina University, and PhD from the University of Florida in Higher Education Administration.