Two Black Women in New Higher Education Administrative Posts

TBolewareTracy E. Boleware was appointed director of the Office of Communications, Public Relations, and Marketing at Tuskegee University in Alabama. She has been serving as vice president for the Black Executive Exchange Program of the National Urban League.

Boleware is a graduate of Howard University in Washington, D.C., where she majored in political science.

NewsAnita Walton, director of alumni relations at North Carolina Central University in Durham, was elected chair of the board of directors of District III of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). Walton has been director of alumni affairs at NCCU since 2009.

Walton is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She holds a master’s degree in higher education administration from North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

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