Professional APPOINTMENTS

Black Issues in Higher Education, Dec 9, 1999 by Joan Morgan

PRESIDENT

Dr. George Campbell Jr., who for 10 years has led the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, has been selected as the next president of New York City's Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. He is the first African American to hold the position. Campbell received his bachelor's from Drexel University and his doctorate in theoretical physics from Syracuse University.

ACADEMIC

Dr. Paul W. Barrows has been made vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was promoted from the position of associate vice chancellor for academic services and campus diversity. Barrows earned a bachelor's in Afro-American studies from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, a master's in African history and politics from the State University of New York at Albany and a doctorate in history from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

Dr. Lesia L. Crumpton is the new associate dean for research and industrial outreach at Mississippi State University. She has been a member of the university's industrial engineering faculty since 1992. Crumpton earned bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in engineering from Texas A&M University.

Dr. Samuel Moore is the new assistant dean of the graduate school at the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology. Previously, he was an assistant director in the college of engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Moore earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts from the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign and a master's in education and doctorate in communications from the University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. Julius Scipio has been appointed vice president for research and sponsored programs at Voorhees College in South Carolina. Most recently he was interim vice president for academic affairs. Scipio earned a bachelor's in biology from Paine College, a master's in educational administration and supervision and a doctorate in higher education administration from Memphis State University.

Dr. Dhyana Ziegler has been appointed assistant vice president for instructional technology/academic affairs at Florida A&M University. Most recently, she held the Garth C. Reeves Sr. Eminent Scholar Chair of Excellence in the department of journalism. Ziegler earned a bachelor's in journalism and music, cum laude, from Baruch College and a master's in radio and television and doctorate in academic administration, both from Southern Illinois University.

HONOR

Caleen Sinnette Jennings, an associate professor of theatre at American University, is one of six playwrights to receive a Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award for 1999. Sinnette Jennings earned a bachelor's in drama from Bennington College and a master's of fine arts in theatre from New York University.

Dr. Joseph Martin Stevenson is the first eminent scholar in the college of education's Center for Urban Education & Innovation at Florida International University, an endowed chair created through the combined support of the Knight Foundation and the university. Stevenson earned a bachelor's in government and psychology and a master's in educational administration, both from California State University. He earned a doctorate in education policy and management from the University of Oregon.

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