An Abrupt Change in Leadership at Fisk University in Nashville
With the academic year in its infancy, the board of trustees of historically Black Fisk University in Nashville announced that Vann R. Newkirk was removed as president, effective immediately. No reason was given for Dr. Newkirk's departure. Charles Sims the chair of the board of trustees was named acting president.
Jeffery Robinson Is the New Provost at Rutgers University-Newark
Dr. Robinson holds the Prudential Chair in Business and is a professor of management and global business at Rutgers Business School. He joined the faculty at Rutgers-Newark in 2008, where he has specialized in management and entrepreneurship.
Health Issues Force Wiley College President to Take a Leave of Absence
Herman Felton Jr., president of Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, announced that he is scaling back his duties on campus due to ongoing health issues. He was diagnosed with a blood infection but is expected to make a full recovery and be back at his job full time in a short time.
Two African American Women Appointed to Provost Positions
Gloria Oikelome was appointed provost and vice president of academic affairs at Delaware Valley University in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and Antoinette A. Coleman is the new provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York.
Two New Deans Have Been Appointed at Alcorn State University in Mississippi
LaShundia Carson is the new dean of the School of Education and Psychology and Dexter B. Wakefield was appointed interim dean of the School of Agriculture and Applied Sciences.
New Data Shows How the Pandemic Widened the Racial Gap in Educational Progress
Everyone feared that exclusively online education for students during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic would have a severe negative impact on educational progress. Now we have proof that in fact, that is the case. And this negative impact is even more pronounced for Black students.
A Trio of African Americans Have Been Appointed to Dean Positions
Tobias Raphael Morgan is the new dean of students at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Alphonso Keaton was appointed dean of undergraduate studies at Prairie View A&M University in Texas and DeMethra LaSha Bradley is the new dean of students at Scripps College in Claremont, California.
Cynthia Warrick Will Step Down From Presidency of Stillman College in Alabama Next June
Dr. Warrick was named interim president of Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in January 2017 and was elevated to president later that year. She is the first woman to serve as president of the college.
David Emmanuel Goatley Will Be the Next President of Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, California
Dr. Goatley currently serves as the associate dean for academic and vocational formation, Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams Jr. Research Professor of Theology and Christian Ministry, and director of the Office of Black Church Studies at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He previously taught at the Memphis Theological Seminary in Tennessee and the University of Louisville in Kentucky.
Sarah Willie-LeBreton Will Be the Next President of Smith College in Massachusetts
Dr. Willie-LeBreton currently serves as provost and dean of the faculty at Swarthmore College, where she has taught since 1997. Earlier, she served on the faculty at Colby College in Maine and Bard College in New York. She will become president of Smith College on July 1, 2023.
Michelle Smith Is the New Leader of the Minority Health and Health Equity Research...
For the past 12 years, Dr. Smith has been director of the Office of Health Equity at the Arkansas Department of Health. In 2018, Dr. Smith was commissioned into the United States Air Force as a captain and currently serves as the public health officer for the 189th medical group with the Arkansas Air National Guard.
Marcus Cox Has Been Appointed to a Dean Position at Fayetteville State University in...
Prior to coming to Fayetteville State University, Dr. Cox was a fellow at the Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans. Additionally, he has served as associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Xavier University of Louisiana.
Katherine S. Conway-Turner Will Step Down as President of Buffalo State College in June
Katherine S. Conway-Turner began her tenure as the ninth president of Buffalo State College on August 3, 2014. Earlier she was provost and vice president for academic affairs at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland, from July 2010 until July 2014.
The First Black Woman Dean of the Howard University College of Medicine
When she takes office on October 3, Andrea A. Hayes Dixon will be the first Black woman to lead the medical school in its 154-year history. Before joining the faculty at Howard University, Dr. Hayes Dixon was the surgeon-in-chief and division chief of pediatric surgery at the University of North Carolina Children’s Hospital.
Anthony Davis Appointed President of Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina
Dr. Davis has been serving as senior vice president of institutional advancement and chief operating officer at the college. Prior to Livingstone College, Dr. Davis served as the vice president for development with The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management.
A New Dean for the College of Business and Information Systems at South Carolina...
Matthew Waritay Guah has served as chair of the business administration and information systems department since 2014. His primary research focuses on business systems in healthcare organizations toward reforming healthcare delivery processes and performance evaluation.
Tonya Smith-Jackson Is the New Provost at North Carolina A&T State University
Dr. Smith-Jackson has worked for North Carolina A&T since 2013. She originally joined A&T as a professor and chair of the department of industrial and systems engineering and founder/director of the Human Factors Analytics Laboratory. She was later named senior vice provost for academic affairs.
Sylvia Trent-Adams Appointed President of the University of North Texas Health Science Center
Before joining the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth in 2020, Dr. Trent-Adams was the first Black woman to serve as Deputy Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps., then the first Black woman to rise to the level of Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health.
John Carethers Will Lead All Health Sciences Entities at the University of California, San...
Dr. Carethers returns to the University of California, San Diego after a 13-year tenure at the University of Michigan, where he served as the C. Richard Boland Distinguished University Professor and the John G. Searle Professor and chair of the Department of Internal Medicine.
Melissa Holloway Will Lead the National Association of College and University Attorneys
Holloway joined the staff at North Carolina A&T State University in May 2019 after serving as deputy general counsel at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, from October 2015 through April 2019. She will serve for one year as chair-elect at NACUA before taking over as chair in 2023.
Karlene Burrell-McRae Will Be the Next Dean of the Undergraduate College at Bryn Mawr
Dr. Burrell-McRae is dean of the college at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Previously, she was associate dean of students and executive director of the Center for Identity + Inclusion at the University of Chicago. Dr. Burrell-McRae will begin her new job at Bryn Mawr College on July 1, 2023.
Wendi Williams Is the New Provost at Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, California
Dr. Williams is the former dean of the School of Education at Mills College in Oakland, California. Earlier, she was the associate dean of academic affairs at the Bank Street College, Graduate School of Education in New York City. Prior to these roles, she provided academic leadership as program coordinator and department chair for counseling and school psychology at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York.
Corey Walker to Serve as Dean of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity
Dr. Walker will continue to serve as a professor of the humanities and director of university’s African American studies program. Before joining the faculty at Wake Forest University in 2020, Dr. Walker was dean of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University in Richmond.
FeRita Carter Is the New Leader of Riverside City College in California
Dr. Carter has been serving as vice president of student services at the college. Prior to joining the staff at Riverside City College, Dr. Carter was the dean of the School of Business and Technology and a full-time political science faculty member at Saint Augustine’s University in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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
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.
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.
In Memoriam: Calvin Otis Butts III, 1949-2022
Calvin O. Butts was the long-time president of the State University of New York at Old Westbury, civil rights activist, and the pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem. In 1999, Dr. Butts was named president of SUNY Old Westbury. He served in that role until 2020 and was the longest-serving president in university history.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
