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The New Dean of the Graduate College at Hampton University

Patrena N. Benton is the new dean of the Graduate College at Hampton University in Virginia. She was the assistant vice president for academic affairs and director of the Edwin P. McCabe Honors Program at Langston University in Oklahoma.

Dr. Benton holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She earned a Ph.D. in leadership studies at North Carolina A&T State University.

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