On The Move - University faculty changes - Brief Article

Black Issues in Higher Education, Jan 4, 2001

THERESE BADON, Dillard University's alumni program manager, is one of three staff members to be named Kresge Fellows. The program aims to enhance the skills of African American advancement professionals and provide support and mentoring. Badon earned a bachelor's in business administration from Dillard University.

JOY VANN-HAMILTON has been appointed assistant provost of the University of Notre Dame. Previously she was director of the minority engineering program at the university. Vann-Hamilton received a bachelor's in psychology from Wichita State University and a master's in business administration from Notre Dame. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in teaching, learning and administration from Andrews University.

ALICIA HENRY, assistant professor of art at Fisk University, is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in New York. She is among 182 artists, scholars and scientists selected. Henry earned a bachelor's in fine arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a master's of fine arts from Yale University.

DR. BARBARA ROSS-LEE is the new vice president for Health Sciences and Medical Affairs and dean of the Allied Health and Life Sciences at New York Institute of Technology. Previously, Ross-Lee was dean of the college of osteopathic medicine at Ohio University. Ross-Lee earned her bachelor's and master's from Wayne State University, and a doctor of osteopathy degree from Michigan State University.

DR. RODNEY SMITH has been named vice president for planning and dean of the Graduate College at Hampton University in Virginia. Smith earned a bachelor's from St. John's University and a master's from Fisk University. He also has a doctorate in educational administration planning and social policy from Harvard University.

EDDIE N. WILLIAMS, president of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, has been named as one of six inductees into the 2000-2001 Memphis City Schools Alumni Hall of Fame. Williams earned a bachelor's in journalism from the University of Illinois and did graduate work in political science at Atlanta and Howard Universities.