Charles Vanover, PhD, is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at USF and affiliate faculty in the USF Qualitative Research Program. Vanover is Coordinator of the Urban Educational Leadership Program and Facilitator of the USF Student Organization for Qualitative Methodologies. He teaches courses in administrative analysis and change in the USF M'Ed program and qualitative data analysis to PhD and EdD students across the university. Vanover entered the fields of educational policy and qualitative studies as a graduate research assistant at the University of Michigan on, at the time, the largest researcher-led study of school change in the history of the world, The Study of Instructional Improvement. During his fifteen years at USF, Vanover has designed practicum leadership projects for generations of school leaders across Tampa Bay. He is co-editor with Paul Mihas and Johnny Saldana of Analyzing and Interpreting Qualitative Research: After the Interview from SAGE.Vanover's major contribution to qualitative studies is as a scholar/artist. He has written and produced 9 performed plays with more than 80 stagings at university and community settings including The University of Pennsylvania, The University of Chicago, The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, The Ohio State University, The University of Georgia, and USF. Two of Vanovers plays received Creative Scholarship Grants from the USF Research Council for public performances directed by Bob Devin Jones, the Executive Director of St Peterburg's The Studio@620. Vanovers fifth published play, "Goodbye to All That!" A Teachers Last Year in the Classroom, is in press from The Qualitative Report. As the inaugural Fullbright Scholar to Villa College, Male, Maldives, Vanover teaches research methods to Villa faculty and graduate students. He gave the keynote for the Maldives Ministry of Education's 7th International Teachers' Conference and has conducted workshops on educational change in Male, Kulhudhuffushi, and Abdu City.