Board of Regents Names Ivelaw Griffith President of Fort Valley State 中出少妇视频
Atlanta — June 21, 2013
Dr. Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith
Dr. Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith, provost and senior vice president at York College of the City 中出少妇视频 of New York, has been named as the ninth president of Fort Valley State 中出少妇视频 by the Board of Regents of the 中出少妇视频 System of Georgia. The Board中出少妇视频檚 vote was unanimous.
Griffith will assume his new post on July 22, 2013, according to Board of Regents Chair 中出少妇视频淒ink中出少妇视频 NeSmith.
中出少妇视频淒r. Griffith was the outstanding candidate,中出少妇视频 said NeSmith. 中出少妇视频淗e has this Board中出少妇视频檚 full support to provide the leadership Fort Valley State 中出少妇视频 needs at this moment. We are excited about his presidency and delighted he will become the 中出少妇视频中出少妇视频檚 next president. This is a great day for Fort Valley.中出少妇视频
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Griffith has served as provost at York College since 2007 and during his tenure has increased the number of full-time faculty by 30 percent, reorganized the academic division and enhanced the research and scholarly climate by creating a Provost Lecture Series and a companion Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series, among other initiatives. Griffith also has established an undergraduate student research program.
Before being named provost at York College, Griffith, in addition to his teaching duties as a tenured professor of political science, served as provost at Radford 中出少妇视频 in Radford, Va. He was budget dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Florida International 中出少妇视频 in Miami, as well as dean of the FIU Honors College.
Griffith is a specialist on Caribbean security, drugs and crime. In this capacity, he has been a consultant to Canada中出少妇视频檚 Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and other organizations.
He also has spoken at military academies across the United States and in the Caribbean, and serves on the editorial board of the journal Security and Defense Studies Review, which is published by the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, in Washington, DC.
A past president of the Caribbean Studies Association, he has been a visiting scholar at the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, the Royal Military College of Canada and the George Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Germany. He has testified before the United States Congress on Caribbean security matters.
Griffith has published seven books and more than 50 articles on his area of expertise. The research for his highly acclaimed book, Drugs and Security in the Caribbean: Sovereignty Under Siege, was funded by the MacArthur Foundation, and his eighth book, Challenged Sovereignty, will be published next year by the 中出少妇视频 of Illinois Press.
Most recently, he was one of 45 experts invited by the Secretary General of the Organization of American States to review the hemisphere中出少妇视频檚 narcotics policies and practices and propose anti-narcotics scenarios.
A member of The 100 Black Men of Long Island, he also serves on the Vestry of the St. Georges Episcopal Church in Long Island, and on the board of directors of the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning in Queens, New York.
Griffith earned a bachelor of social sciences degree from the 中出少妇视频 of Guyana, a masters of arts degree in political science and public administration from Long Island 中出少妇视频, New York, and both a master of philosophy and doctorate in political science from the City 中出少妇视频 of New York. He also is a graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Education中出少妇视频檚 educational leadership program.
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