Appointments, Promotions & Resignations
• Jerald Jones-Woolfolk was appointed vice president for student affairs at the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York. She was interim vice president for student affairs at Mississippi Valley State University.
Dr. Jones-Woolfolk is a graduate of Jackson State University. She holds a master’s degree in counselor education from Iowa State University and a doctorate in urban higher education from Jackson State University.
• Dawn A. Lott, associate professor of applied mathematics and biological sciences, was named director of the Honors Program at Delaware State University. She has been on the faculty at Delaware State since 2003.
Dr. Lott is a graduate of Bucknell University. She holds a master’s degree from Michigan State University and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University.
• Rhonda Lewis-Moss was promoted to full professor of psychology at Wichita State University. She was an associate professor. Dr. Lewis-Moss is only the second African-American woman to hold the rank of full professor at the university.
A graduate of Wichita State University, she holds two master’s degrees and a Ph.D. from the University of Kansas.
• Robert Mock was promoted to the position of associate vice provost for student affairs at the University of Arkansas. He was an assistant vice chancellor at the university.
Dr. Mock is a graduate of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. He holds a master’s degree in interpersonal and organizational communication and a doctorate in higher education administration from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
• Rushton Johnson Jr. was appointed executive director for student life at Southern Oregon University in Ashland. He was dean of student life and assistant to the vice president for student affairs at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana.
Dr. Johnson is a graduate of Birmingham-Southern College. He holds a master’s degree in counseling from Jacksonville State University and an educational doctorate from the University of Alabama.
• Raphael X. Moffett was named director of campus and community involvement at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. He was director of student life at Morehouse College in Atlanta.
Dr. Moffett is a native of Olympia, Washington, and graduated from Washington State University. He holds a master’s degree and an educational doctorate from Clark Atlanta University.
• Rob Knox is the new sports information director at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania. He was assistant athletics director for sports information at historically black Lincoln University of Pennsylvania. He is president of the Black College Sports Information Directors Association.
• Charlene D. Slaughter was promoted to director of public relations at Claflin University. Slaughter, a graduate of Winthrop University, has served as assistant director of public relations at Claflin since 2007.
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