Tag: Baruch College

In 1998, Dr. Brown was appointed as the first woman and first African American president of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. Throughout her 26-year tenure, FIT has created more than 30 new degree and certificate programs.

Sabrina Kizzie, doctoral lecturer in the department of communications studies at Baruch College in New York City, was recently inducted into the American Marketing Association's Hall of Fame and received the prestigious the association's Choice Award.

Dr. Kizzie teaches several courses on social media, digital media and culture, marketing, public relations, and the internship course. Dr. Kizzie’s groundbreaking research on Black millennials and mobile advertising has garnered widespread attention on a national level.

Here is this week’s news of grants or gifts to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.

Dr. Dames came to Notre Dame this fall after serving as Boston University Librarian since 2018. Earlier, Dr. Dames was associate university librarian for scholarly resources and services at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Taking on new duties in diversity equity, and inclusion are Elliott Dawes at Baruch College in New York, Leah Cox at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Stephen Hairston at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Meshea L. Poore of West Virginia University, who was elected president of the Big 12 Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education.

Tatum Thomas currently serves as senior associate dean of student affairs at Columbia University's School of Professional Studies. Prior to her current role, she served as the director of academic services at New York University's School of Professional Studies.

Chris Lebron, an associate professor of philosophy, is the winner of the award that recognizes "ascending" scholars whose are "devoted to the humanities and whose work shows extraordinary promise to have a significant impact on contemporary culture."

Dr. Allen has been serving as head of the corporate reputation group for Bank of America. He is a former speechwriter and assistant to Joe Biden and was the founding president of the Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League.

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.

The new appointees are Paquita Davis-Friday at Baruch College, William Elum at the University of Massachusetts, E. Edward Rhodes II at Alcorn State, April Rhinehardt at Shaw University, Nicole Price at Suffolk University, Craig Burgess at South Carolina State, and Stacy Sowell at Shaw University.

Paquita Davis-Friday was named executive director of graduate programs at the business school of Baruch College in New York. Martin McCrory was named associate vice president and vice provost at Indiana University in Bloomington and Anthony Troy Adams was named interim dean at Alabama State University.

Here is this week's roundup of key appointments of African Americans at colleges and universities across the United States.