Four African Americans in New Teaching Roles

Denise W Streeter, PhDDenise W. Streeter was named an instructor in business at the York campus of Pennsylvania State University. She recently defended her doctoral dissertation at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

Dr. Streeter is a magna cum laude graduate of Howard University in Washington, D.C. She holds a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University.

WI School of Business at U.W.-Madison Staff PortraitsDereck Barr is a new assistant professor of accounting and information systems at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dr. Barr earned a Ph.D. in accounting at the University of Mississippi.

bennettDelaney Bennett was hired as an assistant professor of marketing at Clemson University in South Carolina. He recently defending his Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Dr. Bennett is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He holds an MBA from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

NewsomeClarence G. Newsome, president of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati will be teaching at the University of Cincinnati during the Spring 2015 semester. He will teach a course called “The Black Church in America” under the auspices of the department of Africana studies.

Newsome is the former dean of the School of Divinity at Howard University and the former president of Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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