The New President of the National Association of African American Honors Programs

JacksonCoreen Jackson, a professor in the department of communication and director of the Honors Program at Tennessee State University in Nashville, has been elected president of the National Association of African American Honors Programs. She had served as the organization’s vice president since last October.

Dr. Jackson is a graduate of William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri, where she majored in speech communications. She holds a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and a Ph.D. in mass communication from Howard University in Washington, D.C.

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