JBHE: Latest News for 8/30/07

Appointments

• Kenneth Jones was promoted to the position of academic dean of Miles College in Fairfield, Alabama. He is an associate professor of communications at the college.

Dr. Jones is a graduate of the University of Mississippi. He holds a master’s degree in communications from Clarion University in Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in mass communications from Howard University. He also earned a doctorate in divinity from the Virginia Theological Seminary.

• Mavis Agbandje-McKenna, an associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Florida, was appointed director of the university’s Center for Structural Biology. Dr. Agbandje-McKenna, who has been on the University of Florida faculty since 1999, earned her Ph.D. in biophysics at the University of London.

• Craig T. Follins was appointed executive vice president for workforce and economic development at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio. He was vice president for workforce and economic development at Victoria College in Victoria, Texas.

Dr. Follins is a graduate of Brooklyn College. He holds a master’s degree in clinical sociology from Texas Southern University and a doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin.

• Janice G. Brewington was named provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at North Carolina A&T State University. She had been serving in the post on an interim basis for more than a year.

A pediatric nurse practitioner, Brewington is a graduate of the nursing school at North Carolina A&T State University. She holds a master’s degree in nursing from Emory University and a Ph.D. in health policy and administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

• Olabaniji Abanishe was named head football coach at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. He was the offensive coordinator for the football team at Langston University.

Lincoln University will resume playing interscholastic football in the fall of 2008 after a 47-year hiatus.