Tuesdays Together National Speaker Series Conversation (12/10)

Date

Dec 10, 2024

Time

12 p.m.

Location

Virtual via Zoom

Admission

Add to Calendar 2024-12-10 12:00:00 2024-11-26 15:38:03 Tuesdays Together National Speaker Series Conversation (12/10) The North Carolina Central University School of Education's Higher Education Administration Graduate Program invites you to the December 10, 2024 Tuesdays Together National Speaker Series conversation at 12 p.m. EST with Dr. Phyllis Worthy Dawkins, Executive Program Director of the HBCU Executive Leadership Institute at Clark Atlanta University (HBCU ELI at CAU). Dr. Phyllis Worthy Dawkins has extensive higher education experience and is adept at the inner workings of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), having worked at six (South Carolina State, Johnson C. Smith University, Dillard University, Cheyney University, Bennett College, and Clark Atlanta University). Dawkins was a tenured and full professor and worked as the provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs at Bennett College, Cheyney University and at Dillard University. During her tenure as the 18th President of Bennett College, she spearheaded a successful bipartisan legislative effort with UNCF that enabled Bennett and other HBCUs to get deferments on payments to the HBCU Capital Finance Loan Program in 53 days. She also led the nationwide StandWithBennett Campaign that yielded 9.5 million dollars in 60 days and 10.5 million with the June 2019 audit. In her career, she has fundraised more than $19 million and acquired over $54 million in state and federal grants. In terms of federal grants, she wrote/co-wrote and secured funds with colleagues from the National Institute of Health on Minority Health Disparities, NSF HBCU-UP Grant: Interdisciplinary Approach to Increasing Minorities in SMET Disciplines and Title III. She has also secured several private foundation grants. Currently, she is the executive program director of the HBCU Executive Leadership Institute at Clark Atlanta University (HBCU ELI at CAU). In terms of other professional development activities, Dawkins is a co-founder of the HBCU Faculty Development Network and a former past president of the Professional and Organizational Development Network (POD). Dawkins currently serves on the Boards of Goddard College in Vermont and the George Floyd Memorial Center and was a thought partner with the Minority Broadband Initiative of NTI NTIA (National Telecommunications and Information Administration). She consults with or presents at several HBCUs (81/101), organizations, professional meetings, summer institutes, and conferences, on fundraising, grant writing, assessment, academic program evaluation/reviews, education technology, accreditation, learning communities, and faculty development. From 2018–2020, Dawkins served on the President’s Board of Advisors on HBCUs. On December 11, 2019, she was appointed as a national senior fellow to the Council Exchange Board of Trade (CEBOT). In this role, she is serving as the national executive director of Higher Education. The conversation will be moderated by Dr. Tryan L. McMickens, associate professor of Higher Education and director of the M.S.Ed. in Higher Education Administration Graduate Program at North Carolina Central University. This conversation will be co-sponsored with Howard University's Ph.D. Program in Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies (HELPS). Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 838 7772 4965 Passcode: HBCUExec North Carolina Central University [email protected] America/New_York public

The North Carolina Central University School of Education's Higher Education Administration Graduate Program invites you to the December 10, 2024 Tuesdays Together National Speaker Series conversation at 12 p.m. EST with Dr. Phyllis Worthy Dawkins, Executive Program Director of the HBCU Executive Leadership Institute at Clark Atlanta University (HBCU ELI at CAU).

Dr. Phyllis Worthy Dawkins has extensive higher education experience and is adept at the inner workings of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), having worked at six (South Carolina State, Johnson C. Smith University, Dillard University, Cheyney University, Bennett College, and Clark Atlanta University). Dawkins was a tenured and full professor and worked as the provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs at Bennett College, Cheyney University and at Dillard University.

During her tenure as the 18th President of Bennett College, she spearheaded a successful bipartisan legislative effort with UNCF that enabled Bennett and other HBCUs to get deferments on payments to the HBCU Capital Finance Loan Program in 53 days. She also led the nationwide StandWithBennett Campaign that yielded 9.5 million dollars in 60 days and 10.5 million with the June 2019 audit.

In her career, she has fundraised more than $19 million and acquired over $54 million in state and federal grants. In terms of federal grants, she wrote/co-wrote and secured funds with colleagues from the National Institute of Health on Minority Health Disparities, NSF HBCU-UP Grant: Interdisciplinary Approach to Increasing Minorities in SMET Disciplines and Title III. She has also secured several private foundation grants.

Currently, she is the executive program director of the HBCU Executive Leadership Institute at Clark Atlanta University (HBCU ELI at CAU). In terms of other professional development activities, Dawkins is a co-founder of the HBCU Faculty Development Network and a former past president of the Professional and Organizational Development Network (POD).

Dawkins currently serves on the Boards of Goddard College in Vermont and the George Floyd Memorial Center and was a thought partner with the Minority Broadband Initiative of NTI NTIA (National Telecommunications and Information Administration). She consults with or presents at several HBCUs (81/101), organizations, professional meetings, summer institutes, and conferences, on fundraising, grant writing, assessment, academic program evaluation/reviews, education technology, accreditation, learning communities, and faculty development.

From 2018–2020, Dawkins served on the President’s Board of Advisors on HBCUs. On December 11, 2019, she was appointed as a national senior fellow to the Council Exchange Board of Trade (CEBOT). In this role, she is serving as the national executive director of Higher Education.

The conversation will be moderated by Dr. Tryan L. McMickens, associate professor of Higher Education and director of the M.S.Ed. in Higher Education Administration Graduate Program at North Carolina Central University. This conversation will be co-sponsored with Howard University's Ph.D. Program in Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies (HELPS).

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