Tagged: Polk State College

New Administrative Appointments for Four African Americans in Higher Education

The appointments are Melvin Thompson at Polk State College in Florida, Dawn Osborne-Adams at Yale University in Connecticut, Jason Frierson at the Nevada System of Higher Education, and Yulander Wells Jr. at Syracuse University in New York.

Three Black Women Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to Dean Positions

Deleise Wilson is the inaugural AdventHealth Dean of Nursing at Polk State College in Winter Haven, Florida. Laurie Garrett-Cobbina is the new dean of the San Francisco Theological Seminary of the University of Redlands in California and Melinda Pettigrew will become dean of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health in December.

Three African Americans Who Are Taking on New Administrative Roles Relating to Diversity

Taking on new administrative roles relating to diversity issues are Heather Moore Roberson at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania, Lonnie Thompson at Polk State College in Winter Haven, Florida, and Jamie Parson at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.

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