Luchara Wallace has been promoted to dean of the Merze Tate College at Western Michigan University. A faculty member with the department of special education and literacy studies since 2009, she currently serves as director of the Lewis Walker Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnic Relations. Her scholarship focuses on juvenile incarceration, generational wealth attainment, and policies impacting families and individuals with disabilities.
Dr. Wallace is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she majored in Afro-American studies. She holds two master’s degrees in special education and Catholic studies from Loyola University Chicago and a Ph.D. in special education from the University of Kansas.
Aneika Simmons has joined the faculty at historically Black Prairie View A&M University in Texas as a full professor and interim dean of the College of Business. She comes to her new role from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, where she served as a professor of management for 18 years. During this time, she had a stint as interim associate vice provost for faculty success. Her teaching expertise includes human resource management, organizational behavior, strategic management and business policy.
Dr. Simmons is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where she majored in management information systems with a minor in finance. She holds a master’s degree in speech communication from the University of Houston and a Ph.D. in management from Texas A&M University.
Dale Hendricks has been promoted to dean of admission at Amherst College in Massachusetts. An Amherst administrator for more than a decade, he most recently served as the college’s deputy dean of admission and financial aid. Earlier in his tenure, he was director of admission and financial aid systems and strategies. Prior to that role, he was senior associate dean of admission and financial aid outreach.
Hendricks received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics and African American studies from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.