Appointments
• Diana Paulin was appointed assistant professor of English and American studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. She was an assistant professor at Yale University.
Dr. Paulin is a graduate of Georgetown University. She holds a master’s degree from the University of Washington and a Ph.D. from Stanford University.
• Harry Le Grande was named vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in the post on an interim basis since January 2007. Previously, he was associate vice chancellor for student affairs with responsibilities for residential and student services programs.
Le Grande is a graduate of the University of California at Irvine. He holds a master’s degree from Oregon State University.
• Patty Ball Thomas, assistant professor of reading in the College of Education at Florida A&M University, was appointed by Florida governor Charlie Crist to the Florida Commission on Human Relations. The commission is charged with enforcing the Florida Civil Rights Act and the Florida Fair Housing Act.
• Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies and founding director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center at Spelman College, was elected president of the National Women’s Studies Association.
• Fidelis M. Ikem was appointed dean and chief research officer of the School of Graduate Studies at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina. He was associate dean of the College of Business at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania.
Ikem is a graduate of Metropolitan State College in Denver. He holds two master’s degrees, one from Clemson University and the other from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He holds a Ph.D. in operations research from Case Western Reserve.
• Franklin D. Gilliam Jr. was appointed dean of the School of Public Affairs at the University of California at Los Angeles. Dr. Gilliam has taught political science at UCLA for more than two decades.
Professor Gilliam is a graduate of Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. He holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa.
• Ceola Ross Baber was named dean of the School of Education at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro. She was previously the associate dean of the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
She holds a master’s degree from Stanford University and a doctorate from Purdue University.
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