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SOHAIL AGBOATWALA
SOHAIL AGBOATWALA has been appointed interim senior vice chancellor for student services and administration at Troy University. Vice chancellor for international programs at the university, Agboatwala holds a bachelor’s in economics and an MBA from Troy. He also holds a master’s in higher education administration from the University of Alabama.
June 25, 2021
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ENKU GELAYE
ENKU GELAYE has been named senior vice president and dean of campus life at Emory University. Gelaye currently serves in the role of vice president of campus life at Emory and she was earlier vice chancellor of student affairs and campus life at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She holds a bachelor’s degree in print journalism from the University of Tennessee and a law degree from the University of Georgia.
June 25, 2021
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BRENDA THAMES
BRENDA THAMES has been named leader of El Camino Community College. Most recently president of the Coalinga campus of West Hills College, Thames holds a bachelor’s in sociology and social welfare from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as master’s degrees in social work and public administration from the University of Southern California and a Ph.D. in education from Oregon State University.
June 25, 2021
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CHANITA HUGHES-HALBERT
CHANITA HUGHES-HALBERT has been appointed associate director for cancer equity at the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Southern California. She will also join the faculty at the university’s Keck School of Medicine as a professor and vice chair of research in the Department of Preventive Medicine. Most recently at the College of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina, Hughes-Halbert holds master’s and doctoral degrees from Howard University.
June 25, 2021
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RICHARD CHAU
RICHARD CHAU has been appointed chief investment officer at Tulane University. He currently oversees Tulane’s Investment Management Office. He was previously a vice president at Bessemer Trust, where he helped manage multi-billion-dollar private equity and venture capital portfolios. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and Chinese from Williams College and an MBA from Columbia University.
June 25, 2021
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PAULA HAMMOND
PAULA HAMMOND has been named Institute Professor, the highest faculty member honor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the first woman and first African American in the role. A professor and chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT, she holds a bachelor’s in chemical engineering from MIT, a master’s degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from MIT.
June 25, 2021
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TERRENCE CHENG
TERRENCE CHENG has been named president of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system. He is currently campus director of the University of Connecticut Stamford campus and a faculty member in the English department. Cheng received his bachelor’s in English from Binghamton University and his MFA in fiction from the University of Miami.
June 25, 2021
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NINA E. KING
NINA E. KING has been appointed vice president and director of athletics at Duke University. She will be the first woman athletics director at Duke, where she has been on the athletics department staff for 13 years. King received a bachelor’s degree in accountancy from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and a J.D. from Tulane Law School in New Orleans.
June 25, 2021
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JORGE SILVA-PURAS
JORGE SILVA-PURAS has been appointed to lead CUNY’s School of Professional Studies. Silva-Puras is a government administrator and former CUNY distinguished lecturer who is currently the executive vice president for academic affairs and provost at Sagrado Corazón University in Puerto Rico. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University, a law degree from the University of Puerto Rico and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark.
June 25, 2021
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MELINDA ANDERSON
MELINDA ANDERSON has been named executive director of NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising. She is currently the interim associate vice chancellor for student success at Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina. Anderson holds a bachelor’s in mass communication and a master’s in adult education from Virginia Commonwealth University as well as a doctorate in higher education from the College of William and Mary in Virginia.
June 25, 2021
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JULIA BERNARD
JULIA BERNARD has been named the first ever vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion at Norwich University, the nation’s oldest private military college. Currently interim chair and associate professor in East Tennessee State University’s Department of Counseling and Human Services, Bernard holds a bachelor’s in psychology, a master’s in marriage and family therapy and a Ph.D. in child development and family studies from Purdue University.
June 25, 2021
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NORMA V. CANTU
NORMA V. CANTĂš has been appointed chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, making her the first Latina to hold the position. CantĂş is a professor of education and professor of law at the University of Texas at Austin, where she specializes in the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and education law. She previously served as assistant secretary of education for civil rights during the Clinton administration. She holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
June 25, 2021
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Nikole Hannah-Jones Talks About Slavery at American Library Association Conference
Slavery is one of the oldest institutions in America and is foundational to the nation, said Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author Nikole Hannah-Jones during the Thursday opening session of the American Library Association’s (ALA) annual conference.
June 24, 2021
African-American
Lifting As We Climb: Ohio State University Celebrate Pioneers with First Hall of Fame Induction
The OSU 34, as they have come to be known, are now being honored with eleven others this week as the first class inducted into the OSU Office of Diversity and Inclusion Hall of Fame.
June 24, 2021
News Roundup
Dr. Sylvia R. Carey-Butler Appointed as Brown University’s Vice President for Institutional Equity and Diversity
After recently being recognized as one of National Diversity Council’s Top 100 Diversity Officers, Dr. Sylvia R. Carey-Butler was selected as the new vice president for institutional equity and diversity at Brown University. As the current chief diversity officer for Kennesaw State University, she leads the Presidential Task Force on Race. Some of her efforts […]
June 24, 2021
Community Colleges
Online Instruction Did Not Make Things Easier for Disabled Students
Online education has the guise of accessibility. When COVID-19 pushed the world of higher education online, some students, including those who work, may have found online access an easier way to put educational goals first, especially when the economy was cliff-diving and taking jobs with it. One commonly held belief is that fully online instruction increased accessibility for disabled students. But Krista Soria, the assistant director for research institutes in partnership with the Student Experience in the Research University (SERU), said that the numbers show the opposite is true.
June 24, 2021
Women
Report: Massachusetts Shows Significant Increase In Number Of Women Of Color Leading Colleges And Universities
The state of Massachusetts is touting some positive news: the increasing number of female college and university presidents. According to a recent study released by the Women’s Power Gap Initiative of the Eos Foundation, the number of women of color in the state have more than doubled over the past three years, with six women welcoming their first women presidents.
June 24, 2021
News Roundup
University of Buffalo Dental School Welcomes First Cohort of Destination Dental
University at Buffalo’s School of Dental Medicine has welcomed the first cohort of 24 students to the Destination Dental School program, an initiative to remove barriers to careers in dentistry for underrepresented students. Destination Dental School – a free, eight-week program from Jun. 5 to Jul. 31 – is open to underrepresented undergraduate and post-baccalaureate […]
June 24, 2021
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