AnDrea Cleaves didn’t plan for a career in education.
For Cleaves, going to college was “about having fun,” she said.
Cleaves, hired this fall as Allen County Community College’s Iola campus dean, said “I was the kind (of student) who changed her major every other week. I was a good student, but I was also the type that, if I got married before I got my degree, so be it.”
She did exactly that, getting married a year before she was to earn her bachelor’s degree at the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio. Instead of finishing, she…
Unlikely educator rises to dean
