29 Executives Named Kellogg MSI Leadership Fellows
Published May 15, 2014
Washington, D.C., Aug. 1, 2005—The Alliance for Equity in Higher Education has announced the selection of 29 distinguished leaders for the Kellogg MSI Leadership Fellows Program, an innovative and groundbreaking initiative designed to train the next generation of presidents and other senior leaders at Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs). The Class of 2006, which includes Fellows from the American Indian, Hispanic, and African American communities, were in Washington, DC, in August for a full week of orientation, seminars and workshops.
The Kellogg MSI Leadership Fellows Program has been fashioned to provide hands-on, practical skill building that is specifically rooted in and across institutional communities that have not been adequately served by other types of leadership programs. The fact that program participants all benefit from a “two for one” experience—grounding in their own community, while also learning from and with others who share a common history of discrimination and disempowerment—makes this a truly unique and special program.
The three partner organizations that make up the Alliance are: AIHEC, the American Indian Higher Education Consortium; HACU, the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities; and NAFEO, the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education. These organizations represent more than 350 MSIs including Tribal Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The Alliance, a first-of- its-kind national coalition of associations and institutions that serve students of color, launched this leadership initiative last year with the support of a four-year, $6 million grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation.
The specific focus of the Kellogg MSI Fellows program is the preparation of leaders for presidential and senior- level leadership. Organizers predict that by the end of this decade, at least half of the individuals who participate in the leadership training program will have served or will be serving as a president, provost, or other high- level senior leader at a minority-serving college or university.
For more information about individual Fellowship recipients, please contact Loretta Hardge at (202) 861-8223 or lhardge@ihep.org. Background information about the Kellogg MSI Leadership Fellows Program is available online at www.msi-alliance.org. A list of the newly selected Fellows is attached.
Leadership Fellow Title Institution Program
- Manuel Avalos Associate, Vice Provost for Research and Faculty Development
Arizona State University, HACU - Larry Blacksmith, Dean of Administration/Registrar
Little Big Horn College (MT), AIHEC - Burt Medicine Bull, Community Coordinator Chief
Dull Knife College (MT), AIHEC - Samantha Jackson Cameron, Business Administration Department Head
Bay Mills Community College (MI), AIHEC - Diana Canku, Chief Administrative Officer
Sisseton Wahpeton College (SD) AIHEC - F. Perna Carter, Vice President for Institutional Advancement
Voorhees College (SC), NAFEO - Glenda F. Carter, Executive Vice President
Wiley College (TX), NAFEO - Sean Chandler, American Indian Studies Department Head
Fort Belknap College (MT), AIHEC - Karita Coffey, Faculty-3D Arts Department
Institute for American Indian Arts (NM), AIHEC - Melissa Cook, Sponsored Program Specialist
College of Menominee Nation (WI), AIHEC - Waded Cruzado-Salas, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
New Mexico State University, HACU - Lynda Y. de la Vina, Dean, College of Business
University of Texas at San Antonio, HACU - Adriana Segura Donly, Professor and Predoctoral Director, Department of Pediatric Dentistry
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, HACU - Lola Doore Administrative, Specialist to the President
Blackfeet Community College (MT), AIHEC - Dorothy J. Duran, NNMCC El Rito Campus Director
Northern New Mexico Community College, HACU - Mari Fuentes-Martin, Associate Vice President and Dean of Students
University of Texas at Brownsville & Texas Southmost College, HACU - Valerie L. Giddings, Associate Vice Chancellor for Lifelong Learning
Winston-Salem State University (NC), NAFEO - Gerardo M. Gonzalez, Director, National Latino Research Center
California State University, San Marcos, HACU - Miguel A. Gonzalez, Interim Dean and Associate Director, School of Engineering & Computer Science
University of Texas, Pan American, HACU - Randy Gunter, Vice President for Student Affairs
Savannah State University (GA), NAFEO - Jeanette Jones, Professor, Director Center for Biomedical Behavioral Science
Alabama A&M University, NAFEO - Rita Martinez-Purson, Dean of Continuing Education
University of New Mexico, HACU - Francine McDonald, Director of Student Support Services
Cankdeska Cikana Community College (ND), AIHEC - Jose Luis Morin, Associate Professor and Department Chairperson
John Jay College of Criminal Justice (NY), HACU - Joshua W. Murfree Jr., Chair, Psychology, Sociology and Social Work
Albany State University (GA), NAFEO - Carlos Vargas-Aburto, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
Central State University (Ohio), NAFEO - Anitra J. Ward, Assistant Dean, School of Graduate & Professional Studies
Chicago State University, NAFEO - Keathen A. Wilson, Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs
St. Paul's College (VA), NAFEO - Lucian Yates III, Chair, Associate Professor, School of Education
Kentucky State University, NAFEO
