Appointments
• Thomas E.H. Conway Jr. was appointed vice chancellor at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina. He previously served as dean of undergraduate programs at North Carolina State University.
• Ebonya L. Washington was named Henry Kohn Assistant Professor of Economics at Yale University. She has been a member of the faculty at Yale since 2004.
Dr. Washington is a graduate of Brown University. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from MIT.
• Felicia L. Patterson was appointed vice president of learner support services at Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, Maryland. She was executive vice president of student and enrollment services at the Community College of Denver.
Patterson is a graduate of Howard University. She holds a master’s degree from and is currently completing doctoral work at the University of Denver.
• Harry Lee Williams was selected as the new provost at Delaware State University. Williams has been serving as interim senior associate vice president for academic and student affairs and interim associate vice president for academic affairs for the University of North Carolina system.
Dr. Williams holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Appalachian State University and a doctorate from East Tennessee State University.
• Carol A. Blackshire-Belay was named provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at Fayetteville State University. She was vice chancellor for academic affairs at Sonoma State University.
• David Olah was named interim president of Barber-Scotia College in Concord, North Carolina. He joined the college last September as academic dean. He previously was superintendent of North Hills Christian School in Salisbury, North Carolina.
• Darrell J. Davis was named assistant dean of student and multicultural affairs at the Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota. He has been a corporate attorney for the past 25 years.
Davis is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He holds a law degree from the University of Minnesota School of Law.
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