Courtesy: UNC System/WSSU
Bonita J. Brown has been named the 14th Chancellor of Winston-Salem State College (WSSU).
She was elected by the College of North Carolina Board of Governors, following her nomination by College of North Carolina System President Peter Hans.
Brown will assume her function on July 1, 2024. She’s going to succeed Interim Chancellor Anthony Graham, who was appointed in July 2023, and who beforehand served because the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Tutorial Affairs at Winston-Salem State College. She is the primary lady named everlasting chancellor at WSSU.
Brown lately served because the Interim President at Northern Kentucky previous to coming to WSSU. Throughout her tenure, she led the campus via a management transition and in navigating important monetary challenges and declining enrollments.
Bonita J. Brown | 14th Chancellor
Previous to being Interim President, she served because the Vice President and Chief Technique Officer for Northern Kentucky College the place she leads the campus in implementing Success by Design, the college’s strategic plan solely centered on pupil success. From this work, retention and persistence charges elevated by over 5 p.c.
She beforehand labored because the Vice President of Community Engagement at Reaching the Dream, a nationwide non-profit chief that champions evidence-based institutional enchancment in neighborhood schools throughout the nation. On this function, Brown was accountable for supporting a community of over 220 neighborhood schools in 41 states as they work to implement sustainable, campus large pupil success efforts.
Previous to this place, she served because the Director of Increased Schooling Observe with the Schooling Belief in Washington D.C. Whereas on the Schooling Belief, she created and led an initiative entitled Optimizing Tutorial Success and Institutional Technique (OASIS), which was a nationwide community of regional, complete, minority serving establishments that enroll giant numbers of low-income college students and college students of colour.
Because the Director of Increased Schooling Observe, she labored with the establishments in assessing knowledge and implementing nationwide finest practices for enhancing pupil success and shutting completion gaps. Beforehand she served because the Vice Chancellor and Chief of Employees, and as Assistant Secretary to the Board of Trustees on the College of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Over the course of her profession, Mrs. Brown has additionally served because the Chief of Employees on the College of North Texas, Common Counsel on the College of North Carolina College of the Arts and Assistant Lawyer at Winston-Salem State College (WSSU).
She was most lately chosen as one among eleven nationwide Designers in Residence to reimagine the function of Increased Schooling in closing racial and financial alternative gaps by the Schooling Design Lab.
Prior to now, she served on the Boards of United Approach of Denton County, Presbyterian Hospital in Denton, TX and on the Board of the Greensboro Historical past Museum in Greensboro, NC. She has participated within the HERS Management program, the AASCU Millennium Management Initiative and is a graduate of the Harvard Institute of Academic Administration. Mrs. Brown obtained her BA in historical past from Wake Forest College and her JD from Wake Forest College College of Regulation. She is married to Mr. Wesley Brown, and so they have two youngsters Joshua Brown and Myliah Brown, and one granddaughter, Angelic.
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