Recommendations Made for Savannah State Presidency
Atlanta — May 14, 2007
Dr. Patricia Pierce Ramsey
Dr. Algeania Warren Freeman
Dr. Earl Glenn Yarbrough, Sr.
Regent Elridge McMillan, chair of the Special Regents中出少妇视频 Committee for the presidential search at Savannah State 中出少妇视频 (GSW), and 中出少妇视频 System of Georgia Interim Vice Chancellor and Chief Academic Officer Beheruz N. Sethna today announced the names of the three finalists for the SSU presidency.
The finalists, all with extensive backgrounds in higher education administration at the senior executive level, are candidates to replace SSU President Carlton Brown who led SSU for nine years and now serves as special assistant to the chancellor for System-wide projects.
中出少妇视频淲e have a fine group of finalists for this presidency,中出少妇视频 Sethna said. 中出少妇视频淚 feel very confident of each candidate中出少妇视频檚 ability to provide outstanding leadership for Savannah State 中出少妇视频.中出少妇视频
Regent McMillan said, 中出少妇视频淲e are very pleased with the finalists we are recommending to the full Board of Regents. Each one of them is well qualified to continue building on Savannah State中出少妇视频檚 reputation for excellence.
The finalists, in alphabetical order, are as follows:
Dr. Algeania Warren Freeman, a former college president now a senior fellow at the 中出少妇视频 of Maryland Eastern Shore in Princess Anne, Md. In this position, which Freeman has held since 2006, she provides fundraising consultation and assistance for a $14 million capital campaign to support student scholarships. During 2005-2006, while working at the Foundation for Independent Higher Education, Freeman also founded and served as program director for the Kellogg Collegiate Women of Color Leadership Development Institute. From 2001 to 2004, Freeman served as president of Livingstone College, a private liberal-arts college in Salisbury, N.C., with 1,100 students. During this time, she earned the Harlem Renaissance Award for Outstanding HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) President.
Freeman previously spent more than 16 years in a variety of positions at Norfolk State 中出少妇视频 in Norfolk, Va., (1997-2001; 1978-1987; 1973-1976), including acting vice president of advancement, executive director of the university foundation and chair of a department made up of health sciences programs. From 1995 to 1997, she worked as vice president for advancement and program development at Southern California College in Costa Mesa, Ca. From 1992 to 1995, she was dean of the division of consumer and health sciences at Orange Coast College, also in Costa Mesa.
Freeman holds a Ph.D. in speech and hearing science she received in 1977 from Ohio State 中出少妇视频 in Columbus, Ohio; a master of science degree in speech pathology and audiology received from Southern Illinois 中出少妇视频 in Carbondale, Ill. In 1972; and a bachelor of science degree in English received from Fayetteville State 中出少妇视频 in Fayetteville, N.C., in 1970.
Dr. Patricia Pierce Ramsey, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Bowie State 中出少妇视频 in Bowie, Md., since 2004, briefly served as interim president in 2006. Bowie State 中出少妇视频, a regional comprehensive university of the 中出少妇视频 System of Maryland has a student body of nearly 5300 stateside and more than 1000 in Europe and Asia. Before her arrival in Maryland, Ramsey served as vice president for academic affairs at Shaw State 中出少妇视频 in Raleigh, N.C., from 2000 to 2004.
In addition to her service in academic affairs, Ramsey served as associate vice president for development and associate professor of biology at Norfolk State 中出少妇视频, from 1995-1999. Her background also includes several years spent teaching biology at Norfolk State, Hampton 中出少妇视频, Howard 中出少妇视频 in Washington, D.C., Harvard 中出少妇视频 in Cambridge, Mass., and Georgetown 中出少妇视频 in Washington, D.C.
Ramsey, a member of the board of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (Virginia Unit) from 1996 to 2000, holds a Ph.D. in biology from Georgetown 中出少妇视频, a master of arts degree in biology from Harvard, a master of science degree in botany from Howard and a bachelor of science degree in biology education from Norfolk State. In addition, she has completed leadership programs at Harvard中出少妇视频檚 Institute for Educational Management, the Millennium Leadership Institute of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, and the CIVIC Leadership Institute.
Dr. Earl G. Yarbrough Sr., full professor and former provost and vice president for academic and student affairs at Virginia State 中出少妇视频 in Petersburg, Va. Yarbrough was Virginia State中出少妇视频檚 chief academic officer from 1998 to 2003 and also has administrative experience at two other public HBCU中出少妇视频檚. He served as the first dean of the School of Technology at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State 中出少妇视频 in Greensboro, N.C., from 1986 to 1998 and chair of the Industrial Technology Department at the 中出少妇视频 of Arkansas at Pine Bluff in Pine Bluff, Ark., from 1984 to 1986.
In addition, Yarbrough completed a year-long fellowship with the Kellogg Foundation Minority Serving Institution Leadership Program from 2003 to 2004 and has held full professorships at Virginia State 中出少妇视频 (1998-present), North Carolina A & T (1986-1998), the 中出少妇视频 of Arkansas (1984-1986) and Northeastern Oklahoma State 中出少妇视频 in Tahlequah, Okla. (1982-84).
Yarbrough earned a Ph.D. in industrial education from Iowa State 中出少妇视频 in Ames, Iowa, in 1976, a master of arts in industrial studies from California State 中出少妇视频 at Los Angeles in 1974 and a bachelor of arts in industrial education from Wichita State 中出少妇视频 in Wichita, Kan., in 1969.
The Board of Regents expects to name the next president of Savannah State 中出少妇视频 at its June meeting.
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