Administrative Challenges and Organizational Leadership in Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Mr. Charles B. W. Prince serves as the first Director for Student Success and Transition in the Office of Undergraduate Studies. He leads the office’s strategic plan, and all campus-wide initiatives from orientation to the first-year experience and beyond. All of these programs are arranged to impact the institution's graduation and retention rate. Mr. Prince has been with Howard University for two years before joining the Office of the Provost - Office of Undergraduate Studies. Previously, he served as the Site Manager for the Jumpstart For Young Children, at Howard University in the School of Communications. From those experiences, Mr. Prince has worked with ensuring student success through service-learning and educational success. Mr. Prince earned his Bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education and Social Studies from Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX. He later pursued his Master’s degree in International Comparative Education from The George Washington University in Washington, DC. Mr. Prince specializes in K-12(Public & Private), Higher Education (National and International), Curriculum and Instruction, Evaluation and Assessment and Governance. In June 2014, Rochelle L. Ford , Ph.D., APR, became a tenured professor and the new chair of the Public Relations Department in the SI Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, responsible for all undergraduate and graduate public relations programs at this PRWeek top-ranked university. Having served as a faculty member at Howard University since 1998, Dr. Ford has mentored hundreds of African American public relations professionals and championed the diversity agenda within the public relations industry through her research, grants, teaching and service. In August 2014, she was inducted into Arthur W. Page Society. She has published extensively on diversity and inclusion as well as issues facing higher education. She is a recipient of PRSA’s D. Parke Gibson Multiculturalism Award, The Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations Milestones in Mentoring Award and the National Black Public Relations Society Founders Award. She holds a BA from Howard University, MA from University of Maryland and a PhD from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. A mother of three, she has led Church Initiative’s Single and Parenting Ministry in the US and in Kenya.