Appointments

• Lea E. Williams was named associate vice chancellor for academic affairs/institutional planning, assessment and research at North Carolina A&T State University. She has served in the position on an interim basis since January 2007 and has been an administrator at the university since 2004.

Dr. Williams is a graduate of Kentucky State University. She holds a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a master’s degree and an educational doctorate from Columbia University.

• Beverly Washington Jones will step down from her position as provost at North Carolina Central University in Durham. Dr. Jones will take a six-month leave and return to the university as a professor of history.

• Gerald E. Hunter was appointed vice chancellor for finance and administration at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina. He was chief financial officer at Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

Hunter is a graduate of Knoxville College in Tennessee. He holds an MBA from Murray State University in Kentucky.

• Paulinus I. Odozor, an associate professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame, was granted tenure. He holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in theology from the University of Toronto.

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