POSITION -- Since 2010, President Suffolk County Community College (SCCC), the largest community college in the State of New York, with a current enrollment of over 25,000 credit students and 10,000 continuing education students.
PREVIOUS -- Interim Executive Vice President-SCCC; Executive Dean-SCCC; Director of Planning for the Community College of Baltimore County; Fiscal Administrator-School of Engineering-Morgan State University; Coordinator Bursar's Office-Morgan State University.
AFFILIATIONS -- Member-nationwide steering committee and implementation team-American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) 21st Century Commission; Co-Chair-African American Presidents' Roundtable Legislative Committee; Member-AACC Commission on Diversity, Inclusion and Equity; Member-Board of Directors of United Way of Long Island; Member-Board Steering Committee for the Long Island Regional Advisory Council on Higher Education (LIRACHE); Member-Brentwood Chamber of Commerce; Member-State University of New York (SUNY) Remediation Task Force; Faculty of the Future Leaders Institute (AACC) and for the Executive Leadership Institute through the League for Innovation.
EDUCATION -- Ed.D., Higher Education Administration, Morgan State University; M.A. in Management and Communication from the College of Notre Dame; B.S. in Business Management from the University of Maryland.
OTHER -- Presentations: Panelist-AACC Presidents Academy Summer Institute (PASI). Topic: "CEO Contracts and Negotiations"-July 2012; Panelist-2012 Annual National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE) in American Higher Education. Topic: "Community Colleges: A Critical Economic and Workforce Development Resource"-May 2012; Panelist-American Council on Education (ACE) Annual Conference. Topic: "American College Presidents"-March 2012. Awards: Selected as alumni representative for the School of Education at Morgan State University's Founders Day Convocation – November 2012; Honoree: Long Island NAACP 1st Annual ACT-SO Achiever's Dinner – September 2012; Honoree: Suffolk County Salvation Army 50th Anniversary Golf Outing – May 2012; Urban League of Long Island Equal Opportunity Day Award – December 2011.