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Sheriah Dixon is the Title VI coordinator at Syracuse University, Duane Bailey is director of intercollegiate athletics and recreation at the City College of New York, and Calvin Joyner is associate director for student leadership and involvement at the College of Charleston.

The appointments are Quran Karriem at Syracuse University, Taija Mars McDougall at the University of California, Irvine, Tiffany Baffour at East Carolina University, Cagney Coomer at Smith College, and Jonaya Kemper at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

While Black athletes make up nearly half of all NCAA Division I football players, there are currently only 16 Black head coaches at NCAA Division I schools, representing just 12.3 percent of the head coaches at the 130 member institutions. A Black coach has never won the NCAA Division I college football championship.

The professors appointed to new faculty roles are Karen Cook Bell at Bowie State University in Maryland, Walter Royal III at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Biko Gray at the University of Houston, and Mbaye Lo at Duke University in North Carolina.

For the past six years, Dr. Ford taught kinesiology at Prairie View A&M University in Texas. With degrees in computer science and health and human performance, she conducted extensive research on disability sport, racial and health inequities, the integration of AI in kinesiology, and culturally responsive teaching practices.

A leading authority on social equity in government, Dr. Gooden currently serves as dean of the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Parks served as an instructor and director with Hendricks Chapel at Syracuse University for over two decades.

With over two decades of experience in higher education administration, Nabors comes to the University of Pittsburgh from Endicott College in Massachusetts, where he served as dean of students for four years.

The three appointments to administrative posts are Norris Edney III at Vanderbilt University in Nahville, Seyvion Scott at Syracuse University in New York, and Robert Owens at Tennessee Tech University.

Blockwood currently teaches in Syracuse University's Washington, D.C. program. He has vast experience in public service, previously holding leadership roles with the departments of Veterans Affairs, Homeland Security, and Defense, as well as the Government Accountability Office.

The new faculty appointments are Marcelitte Failla at North Carolina State University, Travis Alvarez at LaGuardia Community College in New York City, Shawna Friday-Stroud at Florida A&M University, and Heather Lavender at Syracuse University in New York.

The faculty appointments are James Haywood Rolling Jr. at Syracuse University in New York, Elias Towe at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and Roderic Pettigrew at Texas A&M University.

Kirkland has served as an associate professor in the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University for over 50 years. His collection of papers includes materials from the early days of the university's Black studies program.

Here is this week’s news of grants or gifts to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.

Maurice Cox has been named the 2024 laureate of the Henry Hope Reed Award at the University of Notre Dame for his dedication to education and public service.

Virginia Tech's Menah Pratt was named chair-elect for the Council on Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities. Professor Gwendolyn D. Pough has been given the added duties as associate dean of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility at Syracuse University and Sekile M. Nzinga was appointed vice president of diversity, equity, and inclusion at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Gwendolyn D. Pough, dean’s professor of the humanities and professor in the department of women’s and gender studies at Syracuse University in New York, is the latest recipient of the 2023 Ede Mentoring Award from the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition. The biennial award recognizes impactful mentorship of students, campus leadership, professionals, and others.

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. If you have news for this section, please send an email to [email protected].