Van Bailey is the inaugural director of the LGBTQ Student Center on the Coral Gables campus of the University of Miami in Florida. He was the director of BGLTQ Student Life at Harvard University.
Dr. Bailey is a graduate of Denison University in Ohio, where he majored in English and Black studies. He holds a master’s degree in higher education student affairs from Ohio State University and a doctorate in educational leadership from California State University, Northridge.
Maria Arvelo Lumpkin was named vice president for student affairs at Atlanta Metropolitan State College in Georgia. She had been serving as the inaugural director of student involvement and the student center and co-director of the Global Civic Engagement program at Georgia Gwinnett College.
Dr. Lumpkin is a graduate of Saint Augustine’s College in Raleigh, North Carolina. She holds a master’s degree in urban studies from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and a doctorate in educational leadership and policy from Clark Atlanta University.
Terence Peavy was appointed assistant vice president for enrollment management at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. Previously, he held executive positions at Metropolitan College of New York, Saint Peter’s University in Jersey City, New Jersey and the New School in New York City.
Peavy is a graduate of York College in York, Pennsylvania. He earned a master’s degree from Fordham University in New York and is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in organizational leadership studies from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.

Hampton holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and Spanish and a master’s degree in counselor education from the University of Virginia.

Scales holds a bachelor’s degree in communications and a master’s degree in educational counseling from North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

