cmaadmin (EDU)Hi this is my profile and bio information.HomeMELISSA GONZALEZMELISSA GONZALEZ has been appointed interim president of the Southeast College of Houston Community College in Texas. Gonzalez has been serving as vice chancellor and chief of staff to the chancellor of Houston Community College. She holds a bachelor’s degree, an MBA, and a Ph.D. in international business and management from the University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg.January 3, 2018HomeALISON CURSEENALISON CURSEEN will join the faculty at Boston College in the fall of 2018, holding a joint appointment in the department of English and the African and African American Diaspora Studies Program. Curseeen is currently a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Princeton University. She is a graduate of Oberlin College in Ohio. She earned an MFA from American University and a Ph.D. from Duke University.January 3, 2018HomeJASON RIVERAJASON RIVERA has been named vice chancellor for student academic success at Rutgers University–Camden. Previously, Rivera served as dean of the sophomore class and director of the Intercultural Center, both at Swarthmore College. He earned his Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his master’s degree at CUNY’s College of Staten Island and his bachelor’s degree at Manhattanville College.January 3, 2018HomeRON CARTERRON CARTER has been named the Felton J. Capel Professor of Performing and Fine Arts at Fayetteville State University, a historically Black university in North Carolina. He was director of jazz studies and director of the Jazz Ensemble at Northern Illinois University. Carter holds a master’s degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.January 3, 2018HomeKIM FINCH-KAREEMKIM FINCH-KAREEM has been appointed chair of the Department of Social Sciences and director of Global Education at Florida Memorial University. She was previously a visiting associate professor at Florida A&M University. Finch-Kareem has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Florida State University in social work and a Ph.D. in educational leadership from Florida A&M University.January 3, 2018HomeCelebrating the Life of Dr. Joseph L. WhiteAs a high school student in his hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska, it may have been hard for Dr. Joseph L. White to see that seeking to wear the white coat of a waiter would quickly fade as a goal. By the time Dr. White died late last year at age 84, he had achieved not only what it took to be a waiter, but much, much more. In fact, according to a brief biography, White spent his adulthood blazing trails and challenging modern thinkers.January 2, 2018OpinionMemory and RacismIn refusing to let America forget her asthmatic father’s death at the hands of a New York cop using an illegal chokehold, Erica Garner seized the narrative that writes history. Dead at 27 after a heart attack, her persistence and zeal apparently has taken its toll.January 2, 2018News RoundupUniversity Employee Accused of Defrauding Florida SchoolBOCA RATON, Fla. — A 27-year-old Florida Atlantic University employee is accused of pretending to be a student and receiving about $24,000 worth of fraudulent checks. The Palm Beach Post reports that Denise Elizabeth Keaton registered to take classes five times in June 2014 as Elizabeth Denise Keaton and paid with about $54,000 in fraudulent […]January 2, 2018News RoundupMost Big Public Colleges Don’t Track Suicides, AP FindsMost of the largest U.S. public universities do not track suicides among their students, despite making investments in prevention at a time of surging demand for mental health services. Tabulating student suicides comes with its own set of challenges and problems. But without that data, prevention advocates say, schools have no way to measure their […]January 2, 2018HomeNBPLC NHPLC 2017 Game Changers PanelThe 3rd Annual National Black and Hispanic Pre-Law Conference and Law Fair 2017 Sponsored by AccessLex Institute. NYU School of Law. New York, New York.January 2, 2018Previous PagePage 407 of 3225Next Page