Author

    Dr. Linda L. Hogans is a native Floridian. She was born in Miccosukee, Leon County, Florida and raised in Havana (Hay-vana), Gadsden County, Florida.  Her life growing up was surrounded by shade tobacco fields.  The shotgun housing for laborers, where she and her family lived, was on what was termed “the quarters”. 

 

    Since high school graduation, she has attained an educational background in business administration, and culminates with her master’s degree in education and doctoral degree in higher education leadership.  She is honored to have begun her bachelor’s degree at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) in 1969.  Additionally, to be published in FAMU’s CAKE: A Literary Journal, 2024 Spring Issue #4 as Linda Louise.

 

    Dr. Hogans’ career journey into the field of education began with what she considers one of her finest accomplishments.  Specifically the development, implementation, and oversight of Bridges to Learning Day Care Center where she served as director.  It was during this time that she began her public storytelling and motivational speaking.

 

    Subsequently, Dr. Hogans retired from St. Petersburg College (SPC) as Executive Director of Retention Services after seventeen years of service.  The department’s primary function was to promote graduation completion for college students, as well as middle and high school students enrolled in retention programs at SPC.  Critical to student motivation for completion she says is “self-efficacy”. As a result, Dr. Hogans’ dissertation topic was, The Effect of Academic Self-Efficacy on the Grade Point Average of Three Ethnic Groups in a Four-Year College, 2008.