Francis S. Nicol completed secondary education at the Prince of Wales School in Freetown, Sierra Leone, subsequent to undergraduate studies at the Milton Margai Teachers’ College (...view moreFrancis S. Nicol completed secondary education at the Prince of Wales School in Freetown, Sierra Leone, subsequent to undergraduate studies at the Milton Margai Teachers’ College (University of Sierra Leone), and the University of Grenoble, France. Before earning his Master of Education and his doctorate from the University of Maryland, College Park, he acquired his Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he taught. Dr. Nicol taught for decades as a renowned, award-winning educator, and he was also one of nine elite principals charged with transforming underperforming public schools in Washington, DC. He would later become professor of practice in education at Argosy University.view less