Appointments

• Mark Kiel was appointed vice chancellor for development and university relations at North Carolina A&T State University. He has been serving in the post on an interim basis since the beginning of the year.

Dr. Kiel is a graduate of Alabama State University. He holds an MBA from Atlanta University and a Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Georgia.

• Marcelle Christian Holmes was named interim associate dean of students and dean of women at Pomona College. Since 2001 Dr. Holmes has been an assistant professor of psychology and black studies at Pomona.

Professor Holmes is a graduate of Vassar College and holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Michigan.

• Karen Jackson-Weaver was appointed associate dean of academic affairs and diversity for the graduate school at Princeton University. She was the executive director of the New Jersey Amistad Commission.

Dr. Jackson-Weaver is a graduate of Princeton University and holds a master’s degree in education from Harvard University. She also earned master’s degrees and a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University.

• Benjamin O. Uwakweh was named dean of the School of Technology at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro. He was an associate professor and chair of the department of construction science at the University of Cincinnati.

Dean Uwakweh is a graduate of the University of Portland. He holds a master’s degree from Ohio State University and a Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of Michigan.

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