According to the U.S. Department of Education, Tuskegee enrolls some 2,400 undergraduate and 450 graduate students. Black students represent 92 percent of the undergraduate population.
Dr. Thiam’s appointment marks a return to Tuskegee, where he previously served as special advisor to two presidents, professor and chair of the department of history and political science, and co-director of the Ph.D. program in integrative public policy and development.
Most recently, Dr. Thiam served as provost and chief academic officer for another HBCU, Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina. Earlier, he was the Duke Endowed Professor of Political Science and dean of JCSU’s College of Liberal Arts. He previously taught politics and international relations courses at historically Black Howard University, the University of Maryland, and Purdue University in Indiana.
