Leadership

Charles Becton to Lead Elizabeth City State University

Charles L. Becton, the former judge for the North Carolina Court of Appeals, will serve as interim chancellor of Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina. Judge Becton is completing a 10-month assignment as interim chancellor of North Carolina Central University in Durham.

Valerie R. Roberson Appointed President of Roxbury Community College

Roxbury Community College in Massachusetts enrolls about 2,700 students in degree programs and Black students make up a large percentage of the student body. Dr. Roberson, who was vice president for academic affairs at Joliet Junior College in Illinois, will take office on July 22.

Shelton State Community College Names New Leader

Davis is the former interim chancellor of the Alabama Community College System. She also served as general counsel and vice chancellor for legal and human resources for the system.

The First African American Dean at Mississippi State University

Achille Messac was named dean of the James Worth Bagley College of Engineering at Mississippi State University. He has been serving as distinguished professor and chair of the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Syracuse University in New York.

The New Chancellor of the Mont Alto Campus of Pennsylvania State University

Francis K. Achampong is currently serving as chancellor at the Fayette campus of Pennsylvania State University. From 2002 to 2010 he was a tenured professor of business law and director of academic affairs at the Mont Alto campus.

Historically Black Bennett College Selects Its Next President

Rosalind Fuse-Hall is the former chief of staff to the president of Florida A&M University and previously was executive assistant to the chancellor of North Carolina Central University.

Courtney Louise Young Elected to Lead the American Library Association

Courtney Louise Young, head librarian at the Allegheny campus of Pennsylvania State University, will become president-elect of the oldest and largest library association in the world at the conclusion of the 2013 annual conference in Chicago. A year later, she will become president of the association.

Mark Winston Is a Finalist for Dean of Libraries at West Virginia University

Mark Winston is assistant chancellor and director of the John Cotton Dana Library on the Newark campus of Rutgers University. Previously, he served on the Rutgers faculty and on the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Gracie Lawson-Borders Named Dean of the School of Communications at Howard University

She is the former associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Wyoming, where she also was professor of communication and journalism. Earlier she was the director of the African American and Diaspora Studies program at the University of Wyoming.

Thomas Elzey Named the 11th President of South Carolina State University

Elzey has been serving as executive vice president for finance, administration, and operations at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. He is the former senior vice president for finance, chief financial officer, and treasurer at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

Black Scholar to Lead Largest School at George Washington University

Ben Vinson III currently serves as vice dean for centers, interdepartmental programs, and graduate programs and as the Herbert Baxter Adams Professor of Latin American History at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

South Carolina State University Names Three Finalists for President

The three finalists are Thomas J. Elzey, an executive vice president at The Citadel, E. Newton Jackson, associate provost at the University of North Florida, and Leonard A. McIntyre, interim dean of the College of Education at South Carolina State University.

Joyce E. King to Lead the American Educational Research Association

Professor King joined the faculty at Georgia State University in 2004 and currently holds the Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair of Urban Teaching, Learning, and Leadership.

David H. Jackson Jr. Named President of the Southern Conference on African American Studies

Dr. Jackson, the author or editor of several scholarly books, is chair of the department of history, political science, public administration, geography and African American studies at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee.

Otha Burton Jr. to Lead the New Institute of Government at Jackson State University

The former chief administrative officer for the city of Jackson, Dr. Burton joined the faculty at Jackson State in 2006 as an associate professor and associate dean in the university's School of Policy and Planning.

Danita Brown Is a Finalist for Dean of Students at the University of Minnesota

She is currently the dean of students at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Blacks make up 4 percent of the 35,000-member undergraduate student body at the Twin Cities campus.

The New Dean of Arts and Sciences at Fort Valley State University

Victor M.D. Brown has been serving as dean of the Division of Science, Mathematics, and Technology at Burlington County College in Pemberton, New Jersey. He holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of the West Indies.

Change in Leadership at Essex County College

Edythe Abdullah has announced she is stepping down as president of the two-year college in Newark, New Jersey, and will be replaced on an interim basis by Gale Gibson, senior vice president for academic affairs.

Valerie Roberson Is a Finalist for President of Prairie State College

Currently, Dr. Roberson is vice president for academic affairs at Joliet Junior College in Illinois. She is the former president of Olive-Harvey College and was vice president for adult education at the City Colleges of Chicago.

Spelman College Graduate to Become President of York College in Pennsylvania

Since 2006, Dr. Gunter-Smith has been provost and academic vice president at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. Previously, she was the Porter Professor of Physiology at Spelman College in Atlanta.
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