Three Black Leaders Appointed to Staff Positions at Universities

Antonio Witherspoon has been promoted to university registrar at Florida A&M University. A staff member with the HBCU for nearly 15 years, he most recently served as coordinator of administrative services in the Office of the Provost. Earlier in his tenure, he served as coordinator of student records.

Witherspoon is a three-time graduate of Florida A&M University, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in business education, a master of public administration degree, and a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction.

Davina Desnoes has been named senior assistant vice president for budget, planning, and analysis at the University of Central Florida. Her background includes more than two decades of experience in higher education administration and finance. Most recently, she served as the senior positions planning advisor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Desnoes received her bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance and her master’s degree in higher education administration from the University at Buffalo in New York.

Alicia C. Miles has been named the inaugural director of graduate admissions and recruitment initiatives at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She brings nearly a decade of experience in law school admissions to her new role.

Miles holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina, and a juris doctorate from Valparaiso University in Indiana.

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