Michael Daily to Serve as Provost at Kentucky State University
Dr. Dailey has been serving as director of distance learning and instructional design at the university. Earlier in his career, he spent 11 years with the Department of Education for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, including seven years as director of the Division of Next Generation Professionals.
Martha Hurley Named Dean at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio
Dr. Hurley has been serving as chair and professor in the criminal justice and security studies department at the University of Dayton. Her research focuses on criminal justice policy analysis, restorative justice, corrections, and community-police relationship building.
Calvin McFadden Is the New President of Arkansas Baptist College in Little Rock
Since 2020, Dr. McFadden has been a church pastor in Houston. Earlier he served in dean positions at Bristol Community College in Fall River, Massachusetts, Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, and Norwalk Community College in Connecticut.
Clarence Armbrister to Step Down in June From Presidency of Johnson C. Smith University
Clarence Armbrister became the fourteenth president of the historically Black university on January 1, 2018. He had been president of Girard College, an independent college preparatory school in Philadelphia. Previously, he was senior vice president and chief of staff at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and executive vice president and chief operating officer at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Three African Americans Who Have Been Appointed to Dean Positions
Gary Edwards is the new vice president and dean of students at Talladega College in Alabama. Kevin Hamilton was appointed associate vice chancellor and dean of student belonging at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and Danelle Stevens-Watkins was named acting dean of the College of Education at the University of Kentucky.
Roderick T. Heath Is Fayetteville State University’s New Dean of Students
Before joining Fayetteville State University, Dr. Heath served as director of the Men’s Achievement Center & African American Male Initiative at North Carolina Central University in Durham.
The Snail-Like Progress of Blacks Into the Ranks of Head Coaches in College Football
The good news is that three Black head coaches have been hired by FBS schools. The bad news is that the number of Black head coaches is actually one less than was the case in 2022. Thus, Blacks are 10.5 percent of all head coaches at FBS schools.
Montrale Boykin Is the New Leader of the Graduate School at Winston-Salem State University
Since 2012, Dr. Boykin has served as the co-chairperson of the department of health care management in the School of Health Sciences at the university. He first joined the staff at the university in 2006.
William J. Barber II to Lead Yale University’s New Center for Public Theology and...
Since 1993, Dr. Brber has been pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, North Carolina. He has teaching experience at Union Theological Seminary, St. John's University, the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, and Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy.
Ron Darbeau Is the New Chancellor of the Altoona Campus of Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Darbeau was vice president for faculty affairs and academic operations at Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania, the integrated institution of Bloomsburg, Lock Haven, and Mansfield universities that was established in July 2022. Earlier, he served as interim dean of the College of Health Sciences at the University of Arkansas—Fort Smith.
Three Black Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to Dean Positions
Levon Esters will be the next dean of the Graduate School and vice provost for graduate education at Pennsylvania State University. Ann-Margaret Esnard will serve as the interim dean of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University and Robert E. Bedford was appointed dean of students, housing, and residence life at Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina.
T. Ramon Stuart to Lead the West Virginia University Institute of Technology
Dr. Stuart most recently served as the president of Clayton State University in Morrow, Georgia. In 2016, he was named provost and vice president for academic affairs at Fort Valley State University in Georgia. Before joining the staff at Fort Valley State University, Dr. Stuart served on the faculty at West Virginia State Community and Technical College.
The American Museum of Natural History in New York Names its First Black President
The American Museum of Natural History was founded in 1869. In 2006, the museum established the Richard Gilder Graduate School which includes a Ph.D. granting program in comparative biology within the museum. It also offers a master's degree in teaching program. Sean Decatur, president of Kenyon College in Ohio, will begin leading the museum in April.
Oluwaranti Akiyode Named Dean of the Howard University College of Pharmacy
Dr. Akiyode has been serving as the interim dean of the College of Pharmacy since July 2022. She has taught at Howard University for 21 years and is a full professor in the department of clinical and administrative pharmacy sciences.
Claudine Gay Appointed the Thirtieth President of Harvard University
When she takes office on July 1, Claudine Gay will be the first African American to lead the university since its founding nearly 400 years ago. Since 2018, Dr. Gay has served as the Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She first joined the Harvard faculty in 2006.
John King Appointed the Fifteenth Chancellor of the State University of New York
A former secretary of the U.S. Department of Education during the Obama Administration, John King has been serving since 2017 as the president of The Education Trust, a nonprofit organization that promotes high academic achievement for all students in early childhood, K-12 education, and higher education.
Harriet B. Nembhard Will Be the Next President of Harvey Mudd College in Claremont,...
A nationally respected leader in the field of industrial and operations engineering, Dr.Nembhard currently serves as dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Iowa. Before coming to Iowa in 2020, Dr. Nembhard was the Eric R. Smith Professor of Engineering and head of the School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering at Oregon State University.
Heidi Anderson Assumes the Chair of American Association of State Colleges and Universities
Before being appointed president of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in 2018, Dr. Anderson had been a special advisor to the president of Texas A&M University-Kingsville. She served as provost and vice president for academic affairs there from 2015 to 2017.
Columbia University Forms the Commission on the History of Race and Racism
This faculty-led entity will assess and establish guidelines for existing and future symbols and representations at Columbia, placing them in historical context and their relationship to racism, guided by a commitment both to historical accuracy and to an inclusive campus environment.
Two African American Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to Dean Positions
Keith M. Howard has been named the next dean of the College of Agriculture, Family Sciences, and Technology at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina, and Dorothy E. Mosby has accepted an appointment as dean of the faculty and vice president for academic affairs at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Emmett Griswold Is the New President of Albany Technical College in Georgia
In 2018, Dr. Griswold was appointed vice president for academic affairs at Albany Technical College. Earlier, he was dean of academic affairs for the construction, manufacturing, and transportation division at the college. Dr. Griswald began his career at Albany Technical College in 2004 as an instructor in criminal justice.
Allyson Watson to Serve as Provost at Florida A&M University
Dr. Watson was named dean of the College of Education at Florida A&M University in 2019. Before coming to Florida A&M, she was dean of the College of Education at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. Earlier, Dr. Watson spent nearly 14 years on the faculty at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
Two Black Scholars Who Have Been Appointed Deans at Historically Black Universities
Paul B. Tchounwou was appointed the new dean of the School of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences at Morgan State University in Baltimore, effective January 1, and Aisha Morris Moultry has been named interim dean of the recently-established College of Transdisciplinary Studies at Texas Southern University in Houston.
Charles Robinson Appointed Chancellor of the University of Arkansas Fayetteville
Before being named interim chancellor in July 2021, Dr. Robinson was provost and executive vice chancellor for academic and student affairs. He was named provost in 2020 and has served as vice chancellor of student affairs since 2015. Dr. Robinson’s time at the University of Arkansas spans more than 20 years, beginning as an assistant professor of history.
Rosana Reyes Will Be the Next President of Lamar Community College in Colorado
Dr. Reyes currently serves as vice president for enrollment management and student affairs at Luzerne County Community College in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania. Earlier, Dr. Reyes served as associate vice president of the Newburgh campus of the State University of New York. She will take on her new duties at Lamar Community College in March.
Tomikia LeGrande Chosen to Lead Prairie View A&M University in Texas
Since 2018, Dr. LeGrande has served as vice provost for strategic enrollment management at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Earlier, she was vice president for strategic enrollment management at the University of Houston-Downtown. Prior to her duties in Houston, Dr. LeGrande worked at North Carolina A&T State University and Winston-Salem State University.
Gary Bennett Appointed Dean of the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences at Duke...
Dr. Bennett has been serving as vice provost for undergraduate education. He also is the Bishop McDermott Family Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Global Health, and Medicine at Duke. Dr. Bennett worked as a faculty member at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute prior to joining Duke in 2009.
Kim Armstrong Will Be the Next President of Clovis Community College in Fresno, California
Dr. Armstrong, who holds three degrees in neuropsychology, currently serves as the vice chancellor for student, equity, and community affairs at Arkansas State University Three Rivers. Earlier, she was vice president of student affairs at the College of Ouachitas in Malvern, Arkansas.
Kenneth Long Is the New President of East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania
Long has served as interim president since July 2020 and is the first African American to lead the institution. Before being named interim president in 2020, Long had served as the university’s vice president of administration and finance and chief financial officer since 2013. Earlier, he served for five years as assistant vice president of administration and finance at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania.
Charletta H. Barringer-Brown Is the New Dean of the School of Education at Virginia...
Dr. Barringer-Brown had been serving as a tenured professor in the department of political science and public administration and as the faculty director of general education at Virginia State University. Earlier in her career, Dr. Barringer-Brown served as an assistant dean, department chair, and director of research at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina from 2004-2018.
Yolanda Wilson Will Be the First African American President at the College of Southern...
Dr. Wilson has been serving as vice president of instruction at Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. She has been a professor and administrator in the North Carolina and South Carolina community college systems for more than 22 years.
Emory University Has Announced the Debut of a Ph.D. Program in African American Studies
Emory University states that the doctoral program is the first of its kind in the southeastern United States and the first at a private university in the entire South. Each student in the program will receive specialized training in one of three fields: gender and sexuality; social justice and social movements; or expressive arts and cultures. The first students will enroll in the fall of 2023.
L. Ebony Boulware to Lead the Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Dr. Boulware hs been serving as the director of the Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute, in Durham, North Carolina, as vice dean for translational science and associate vice chancellor for translational research at Duke University. She was also a distinguished professor of medicine and served as chief of the division of general internal medicine in the department of medicine at the Duke University School of Medicine.
The New Dean of Students at Central Ohio Technical College and Ohio State University-Newark
For the past five years, Dr. John Davenport has served as assistant vice president and dean of students at Illinois State University. He spent 10 years in residential life and 16 years overall in the dean of students office at the university.
Jonathan Lee Walton Appointed the Eighth President of the Princeton Theological Seminary
Dr. Walton has been serving as dean of the School of Divinity at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He also holds the Presidential Chair of Religion and Society at the divinity school and is dean of Wait Chapel on campus. Before coming to Wake Forest in 2020, Dr. Walton was the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the University’s Memorial Church at Harvard University.
Two African American Women Appointed to Dean Positions at Southern Universities
Margaret I. Kanipes was named dean of the new Honors College at North Carolina A&T State University and Leah Tolbert Lyons was appointed dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Middle Tennessee State University
