Three African American Taking on New Administrative Duties

BHayesBreona M. Hayes is the new Title IX coordinator at Saint Augustine’s University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Hayes joined the staff at the university in 2013 and was serving as the acting executive director of the Freshman Success Initiatives.

Hayes is a graduate of Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, where she majored in health science. She holds master’s degrees in school guidance counseling and mental health counseling from Webster University in Missouri.

Dorianne JohnsonDorianne Johnson was appointed associate athletics director and senior women’s administrator at Alcorn State University in Mississippi. She was the recruiting coordinator and the assistant coach for women’s basketball at Alabama A&M University.

Johnson is a graduate of the University of Mississippi, where she majored in journalism and public relations. She holds a master’s degree in human development from Alabama A&M University.

Dr. Michael WilliamsMichael D. Williams, a professor of physics and director of the Center for Excellence in Materials Physics at Clark Atlanta University in Georgia, has been elected to the board of director of the American Vacuum Society.

Professor Williams joined the faculty at Clark Atlanta in 1994 after working at Bell Laboratories. He is a graduate of Morehouse College in Atlanta and earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in physics at Stanford University in California.

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