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RAMAPO NEWS |
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Rodney D. Smith to Become Ramapo’s Third President
Rodney D. Smith, Ed.D., vice president for planning and dean of the
Graduate College, Hampton University, Virginia, will become the third
president of Ramapo College of New Jersey, effective July 1. Arthur
Ramirez, chair of the Ramapo College Board of Trustees, made the announcement
at a meeting of the joint boards held in January. Smith held several positions at Hampton including vice president for administrative services and director of strategic planning; vice president for student affairs and academic dean; dean of students; assistant professor; and director of the Academic Support and Assessment Center. While serving on the Fund Raising Leadership Team Solicitations Committee, Smith was campus spokesperson for the kick-off phase of Hampton’s current $200 million endowment campaign. Smith was named an MLI Fellow by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities for 2000; a Bush Foundation Fellow in 1997; and an Organization of American States Fellow for training and research at Harvard University from 1983 to 1986. He also held the position of program coordinator at the Harvard Institute for Educational Management at Harvard; served as a member of the Saint Andrew’s Episcopal School Board of Trustees; and is on the Advisory Committee, Harvard Graduate School of Education Conference on Black Education and the Education of Blacks. In addition, Smith was elected to the Editorial Board of the Journal of the National Association of Student Affairs Professionals and, in 1995, was the national conference chair of the National Association of Student Affairs Professionals. He received the 1995 Outstanding Professional Award by the Virginia Association of Student Professional Administrators and is a recipient of the Presidential Award for Outstanding Service, National Association of Student Affairs Professionals. His publications include “Reality Check,” and “What They Do Not Tell You About Freshman Year,” from Off to College, A Guide for College Bound Students, among others. Smith earned his Ed.D. and M.Ed. from Harvard University, an M.A. from Fisk University, and a B.A. from Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota. Ramirez thanked Trustee Thomas Dunn, chair of the search committee, and all its members, and Dr. Alice Chandler, interim president, for her leadership in moving the College forward during the transitional period. He also praised Dr. Robert A. Scott, president emeritus, Ramapo’s president for fifteen years, and current president of Adelphi University. The Ramapo College community warmly welcomes Dr. Smith, his wife,
Dr. Christina Ramirez-Smith, and their two children, Samantha, 12,
and Sean, 6, into its family. |
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