The New Dean of the College of Business at Delaware State University

Donna CovingtonDonna T. Covington was appointed dean of the College of Business at Delaware State University in Dover. She was the interim dean of the College of Business and Computer Science at Kentucky State University in Frankfort. She is a former executive at IBM, Texas Instruments, and Lexmark International.

Covington is a graduate of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, where she majored in chemistry. She holds master’s degrees from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky.

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