Appointments & Awards

Marilou Allen and Olusegun Ojewuyi Win Awards

Marilou Allen is director of the Women’s Center at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and Olusegun Ojewuyi is an associate professor in the department of theater at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.

Two African American Women in New Administrative Leadership Posts

Dianthia Ford-Kee was named director of athletics at Mississippi Valley State University and Elizabeth Mosely-Hawkins was promoted to director of public relations at South Carolina State University.

Virginia Tech’s Bevlee Watford Spending Two Years at the National Science Foundation

The associate dean for academic affairs at the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, will be the program manager for broadening participation in the engineering education and centers division of the NSF.

National Bar Association Names an Award to Honor a West Virginia University Administrator

The Major General Kenneth D. Gray Excellence in Jurisprudence Award will recognize a leader, jurist, or practitioner who has exhibited distinctive and exemplary service to their community and or nation.

Harvard Business School Honors Its Black Alumnae

The new website honoring Black women graduates was established in conjunction with the 50th anniversary celebration of coeducation in the full-time MBA program at Harvard Business School.

Prairie View A&M Provost Is Stepping Down and Returning to the Classroom

E. Joahanne Thomas-Smith, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Prairie View A&M University in Texas, has announced that she will step down from these posts on August 31, 2014.

Prestigious Honors for Two African American Academics

Marie Chisholm-Burns dean of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, received a reward for her research and the late Julius Chambers received the Spirit of North Carolina Award.

Two Black Scholars Named to Teaching Posts

Albert Monroe was named visiting assistant professor of law at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, and James Tengatenga was appointed a presidential fellow at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Four African Men in New Leadership Positions in Higher Education

The new appointees are Stanley Donaldson Jr. at Norfolk State University, Kemel Dawkins at Michigan State University, Gerald Lewis at East Carolina University and Troy Riddle at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago.

Jacquelyn Bridgeman to Lead the College of Law at the University of Wyoming

Professor Bridgeman is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of Chicago Law School. She has served as associate dean of the University of Wyoming law school since 2010 and has been on the faculty since 2002.

African American Debaters Make History

Nadia Lewis and Jamila Ahmed, African American students at Fresno State University in California, placed first and second at the recent Henry Clay Invitational Debates held at the University of Kentucky.

Edward Cornwell III Elected Secretary of the American College of Surgeons

A well-respected trauma surgeon, Edward E. Cornwell III is professor and chair of the department of surgery at the Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C.

Robert Franklin Has Returned to Emory University

The former president of Morehouse College, has returned to Emory University as senior adviser to the provost for community and diversity. He previously taught at Emory's Candler School of Theology.

University of Florida Scholar Elected President of IUAES

Faye V. Harrison, professor of anthropology and professor of African American studies at the University of Florida, has been elected president of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences.

This Week’s Roundup of New Higher Education Administrative Appointments

The new appointees are Jacqueline Gibson at Mississippi Valley State University, Maurice D. Gipson at the University of Texas, Earl Johnson at the University of Tulsa and Coreen Jackson of Tennessee State University.

NYU’s Spike Lee Awarded the Gish Prize

Darren Walker, chair of the prize committee, stated, "We honor Spike Lee for his brilliance and unwavering courage in using film to challenge conventional thinking, and for the passion for justice that he feels deep in his soul."

The New President of the Association for Black Culture Centers

Rodney T. Cohen, an assistant dean and director of the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, was elected president at the association's annual meeting, hosted this year by Auburn University.

Two Black Men Named to High-Level Diversity Officer Positions

Reg Chhen Stewart was promoted to chief diversity officer at the University of Nevada at Reno and Norm J. Jones, formerly dean of institutional diversity at Dickinson College, was appointed associate chief diversity officer at Harvard University.

Five Black Scholars Win Prestigious Awards

The honorees are President M. Christopher Brown II of Alcorn State University, Tryan L. McMickens of Suffolk University, Charlene Johnson of South Carolina State, Donald Mitchell Jr. of Grand Valley State, and Dikgang Moseneke of South Africa.

Three African Americans in New Administrative Posts in Higher Education

Nevada Winrow is dean of special projects at Baltimore City Community College. Kevin Clark is the new athletics director at Temple University and Kevin Taylor is director of graduate admissions at the business school of Baruch College.

Duke Art Historian Honored by the Smithsonian Institution

Richard J. Powell received the Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History from Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.

Honors for Two African American Educators

Urmeka Jefferson of the University of Missouri received an award from the National Association of Neonatal Nurses and Terence Hicks of Prairie View A&M University was honored by teacher's education group.

New University Administrative Posts for Two African American Men

Bryan Terry was named associate provost for enrollment management at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and John Manley is the new police chief at Elizabeth City State University.

Regina Benjamin to Receive the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism

Dr. Benjamin is the former Surgeon General of the United States and now holds the NOLA.com/Times Picayune Endowed Chair in Public Health Sciences at Xavier University in New Orleans.

New U.S. Ambassador Taught at Dartmouth College and Howard University

Tulinabo Mushingi is the new U.S. ambassador to the African nation of Burkina Faso. A native of Congo, he is the first African-born naturalized U.S. citizen to return to Africa as an ambassador.

Duke University Scholar Wins Anthropology Award

Lee D. Baker, professor of cultural anthropology at Duke, has been selected to receive the Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America by the Society for the Anthropology on North America.

Five African Americans in New Administrative Positions at Universities

Appointed to serve in new positions are Anre Dixon at Cheyney University, Kimberly Logan at Alabama A&M University, Shari Clarke at Ohio University, Rychetta Watkins at the University of Memphis and Lorraine Goffe-Rush at Washington University.

Terrell Strayhorn to Lead New Center at Ohio State University

The mission of the Center for Inclusion, Diversity, and Academic Success will be to foster inclusion, promote diversity, and ensure the academic success of all students at the university.

Archie Holmes Named Associate Provost at the University of Virginia

Archie Holmes, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Virginia, has been given the additional duties of associate provost for the undergraduate educational experience.

Jeffery Burgin Named Dean of Students at Belmont University

Dr. Burgin has been serving as vice president for student affairs at Alabama A&M University. He will begin his new duties on December 1.

Two Black Women in New Teaching Roles

Nobel Peach Prize winner Leymah Gbowee was named the inaugural Distinguished Fellow in Social Justice at Barnard College. Stacy Finley was hired to the biomedical engineering faculty at the University of Southern California.

Honors for Two Black Educators in Mississippi

Mary L. Vaughn of Mississippi State is being honored by the National College Testing Association and Paul Tchounwou of Jackson State will be presented with an award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Four African Americans Appointed to New Administrative Positions

The new appointees are Jerald Woolfolk Adley at SUNY Oswego, Ivan L. Harrell III at Lone Star College-CyFair, Eric V. Hilton at Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, and Joyce Q. Rogers at Indiana University.

Yolanda Cooper Named University Librarian at Emory

She has been serving as an associate professor, deputy university librarian, and acting dean and university librarian at the University of Miami in Florida.

Jazz Educator Honored at the Kennedy Center

Nathan Davis, professor emeritus of music at the University of Pittsburgh, received the BNY Mellon Jazz 2013 Living Legacy Award honoring jazz masters who have achieved distinction in jazz performance and education.

Howard O. Gibson Named to Student Affairs Post

Howard O. Gibson is the new associate vice president for student affairs, enrollment management, and diversity at Mississippi Valley State University. He was the executive assistant to the chancellor at Baton Rouge Community College in Louisiana.
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