Audrey Alexander has been appointed chief of police at Florida A&M University. She has nearly three decades of experience with the university’s department of campus safety and security, most recently serving as assistant director and administrative lieutenant. She is a retired major who served in the United States Army Reserve and Florida National Guard for more than two decades.
Alexander is a three-time graduate of Florida A&M University, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in criminal justice, a master’s degree in public administration, and a master’s degree in adult education.
Van B. Sapp has been appointed vice president of external affairs at Tuskegee University in Alabama. He previously served as dean and professor at Saint Augustine’s University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Earlier in his career, he was a senior vice president at PepsiCo.
Dr. Sapp is an alumnus of Tuskegee University, where he majored in business administration and management. He holds an MBA in marketing from Clark Atlanta University and a Ph.D. in organizational leadership from Concordia University Chicago.
Dennis Mitchell has been named senior advisor to the president for inclusion and belonging at Columbia University. He has been a member of the Columbia community for more than three decades. In addition to his new role, he will retain his current position as senior provost for faculty advancement.
Dr. Mitchell is a graduate of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he majored in neurology and behavior. He holds a doctor of dental surgery degree from Howard University and a master of public health degree in executive health services management from Columbia University.
Kwyn Townsend Riley has been appointed director of the Office of Black Student Services at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. She comes to her new role from James Madison University in Virginia, where she was the multicultural spaces coordinator for the Center for Multicultural Student Services. In addition to her career in higher education, she is the author of the poetry collection And She Will (2018).
Riley is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in applied sociology and social justice from Morgan State University.
Darleny Cepin has been appointed senior associate dean of campus life and chief student affairs officer for Oxford College at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Prior to her new role, she was the assistant dean for student life at Princeton University. Earlier in her career, she was the associate director of residential life at Columbia University.
Dr. Cepin holds a master’s degree in organizational psychology and a doctorate in adult learning and leadership from Columbia University.
Jeanna McCullers has been appointed assistant vice president of student affairs, policy, and governance at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. She currently serves as senior associate dean of students and director of the Office of Student Conduct. Before joining the Duke staff in 2017, she served as the Title IX officer for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
McCullers holds a bachelor’s degree in policy and politics from North Carolina State University and a juris doctorate from the Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston.
