Appointments

• Harold Ford Jr., a former congressman who this past November narrowly lost a bid to become the first black U.S. senator from the South since Reconstruction, is currently a visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. Ford is teaching a seminar entitled “Foundations of American Political Leadership.”

• Lioba Moshi, professor of comparative literature and director of the African Studies Institute at the University of Georgia, was named University Professor.

Professor Moshi is a native of Tanzania and holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Dar Es Salaam. She also holds a master’s degree from the University of York in England and a Ph.D. in linguistics from UCLA.

• Edward Bouie Jr. was named president of the Atlanta campus of Argosy University. Bouie, a former executive director of the DeKalb County School System, has been an administrator at Argosy since November 2004, most recently as vice president for academic affairs.

Bouie is a graduate of Morris Brown College. He holds a master’s degree from Georgia State University and an educational doctorate from Clark Atlanta University.

• Rod Broadway was appointed head football coach at Grambling State University in Louisiana. He was the head coach at North Carolina Central University in Durham.

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