Cleveland State University Names Two Blacks to Executive Positions

Barbara Byrd-Bennett, chief executive officer of the Cleveland Municipal School District, is expected to take a position as executive-in-residence in the College of Education at Cleveland State University.

The university also announced that Julian Earls, the former director of the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, will become executive-in-residence at the College of Business. Last fall Earls was offered the presidency of Alabama A&M University but he turned down the position.

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