Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela has been appointed associate chancellor and vice provost for global affairs and strategies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She will also hold a faculty appointment as a professor of comparative and international higher education. Prior to joining the University of Illinois, she was a professor of higher education and the assistant dean for international studies in the College of Education at Michigan State University.
Originally from South Africa, Dr. Mabokela graduated magna cum laude from Ohio Wesleyan University with her bachelor’s degree in economics. She holds a master’s degree in labor and industrial relations and a Ph.D. in educational policy studies from the University of Illinois.
Colin Adams has joined the faculty at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, as an assistant professor and program coordinator in the department of psychology. He comes to his new role from another Raleigh-based HBCU, Saint Augustine’s University, where he taught for over a decade. Outside of academia, he has extensive professional experience in family counseling, juvenile justice, and gang prevention and intervention.
Professor Adams is a graduate of historically Black Hampton University in Virginia, where he majored in sociology. He holds four master’s degrees: two degrees from the University of Toledo in school psychology and criminal justice, a degree in theology from Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, and a degree in clinical mental health counseling from Liberty University in Virginia.
Francis Owusu has been promoted to associate dean for global engagement in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and director of the Center for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods at Iowa State University. A faculty member since 2001, he previously served as chair of the department of community and regional planning. Earlier in his tenure, he was director of graduate education for his department.
Dr. Owusu is an honors graduate of the University of Ghana, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in geography and archaeology and his master’s degree in population studies. He holds a master’s degree in geography from Carleton University in Canada and a Ph.D. in geography from the University of Minnesota.
