The University is pleased to announce that Dr. Lea E. Williams, interim associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, has assumed additional responsibilities as interim director of The Center for Student Success effective January 1. 2007. Dr. Williams has been with the University since 2004. Her career in academia spans nearly three decades. Dr. Williams has served in higher education at the United Negro College Fund, the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, and as the executive director of the National African-American Women’s Leadership Institute, founded at Bennett College in 1996. She has served as a scholar in residence and speaker at numerous colleges and universities. Dr. Williams currently serves on the board of trustees of the Greensboro Historical Museum and the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro. She is the author of Servants of the People: The 1960s Legacy of African American Leadership, which profiles six leaders who were prominent during the civil rights movement.

Dr. Williams has degrees from Columbia University (M.S., Ed.D.), the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (M.A.) and Kentucky State University (B.A.).