Sonja S. Watson was appointed dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Texas Christian Univesity in Forth Worth. Dorsey Spencer Jr. will be the next dean of students at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, and Rosita Sands was selected as dean of the School of Fine and Performing Arts at Columbia College in Chicago.
Currently, Professor Alexandre serves as the associate dean for faculty development and intellectual life, professor of law, and the Leonard B. Melvin Jr. Lecturer at the University of Mississippi School of Law.
The three African Americans appointed to the faculty at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, are Kyle Bass in the theater department, Brenda Sanya in educational studies, and Courtney Young as professor and University Librarian.
Among the Princeton Review’s 384 Best Colleges, Providence College in Rhode Island was rated as having the least race/class interaction. African Americans are just 4 percent of the undergraduate student body at Providence College.
LeAnna Rice was appointed director of the African, Latino, Asian, Native American (ALANA) Center at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, and Kelvin Bentley was named assistant vice president for digital learning and innovation at the University of West Florida.
Here is this week’s roundup of African Americans who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
Dr. Hucks has been serving as the James D. Vail III Professor at Davidson College in North Carolina. Earlier in her career, Professor Hucks spent more than 15 years on the faculty at Haverford College in Pennsylvania.
Earl Brown was promoted to chief operating officer of the Newark, New Jersey, campus of Berkeley College and Laura H. Jack will be the new vice president for communications at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.
Taking on new roles are Debra J. Barksdale at Virginia Commonwealth University, Michael A. Nutter at Columbia University, Theaster Gates at the University of Chicago, Chris Swan at Tufts University, and Engda Hagos at Colgate University.
Here is this week’s news of grants to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.
Taking on new assignments are Marlon James at Macalester College in Minnesota, Lakami Baker at Auburn University in Alabama, April Baptiste at Colgate University in New York, and Sean Joe at Washington University in St. Louis.
A large group of students held a peaceful demonstration in the administration building at Colgate University protesting acts of racism and bias that occurred on campus and by Colgate students on social media.
James Perkins joins the chemistry faculty at Clark Atlanta University. Lynette Stephenson was promoted to full professor at Colgate University and Emilie Townes was named to an endowed chair at Vanderbilt University.
The college states that 28.7 percent of incoming students identify themselves as multicultural and 28.1 percent say they are non-White. Eight percent of the incoming class self-identifies as Black, an all-time record for Colgate.
Dr. Page joined the faculty at Colgate in 2003. She is a graduate of the University of the West Indies and holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Miami.
A longtime member of the faculty at Colgate University, he was the first director of the African American studies program at Yale University.
Mark Henderson, Andrea Ferguson and Sheila Johnson-Willis are named to new posts.
She will direct the college’s human resources department.
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