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DR. BEVERLY
WADE HOGAN
SPECIAL RECOGNITION
President
Tougaloo College
She was also affiliated with the German Marshall Fund
to study employment and training programs in West
Germany, Denmark, and Sweden.
Under her leadership at Tougaloo, new undergraduate
degree programs in mass communications, hotel and
hospitality management, and religious studies, as well
as two graduate degree programs, have been added. The
General Education Curriculum has been redesigned.
A new Honors Program, the Center for Undergradu-
ate Research, the Center for International Studies and
Global Change and the Institute for the Study of Mod-
ern Day Slavery have been established. Significant tech-
nological improvements have been made, including
Dr. Beverly Wade Hogan became the 13th president of mation management system. Campus renovations, the
campus-wide connectivity, smart classrooms, wireless
networks and the installation of an integrated infor-
repurposing, and renovation of the L. Zenobia Cole-
Tougaloo College and the first woman to lead this his-
man Library and the construction of the new Bennie G.
toric institution in May 2002. Prior to her presidency,
Thompson Academic and Civil Rights Research Center
Hogan had more than twenty-five years of executive
have transformed the living and learning environment.
management level experience as a mental health ad-
The College, in collaboration with the Jackson Pub-
ministrator, government official, educator and college
lic School District, has added an Early College High
administrator – all of which informed her worldview
plex and diverse issues and essential leadership skills.
Hogan holds an undergraduate degree in psychology
(Tougaloo College) and advanced degrees in public
and equipped her with the capacity to understand com- School, focusing on STEM, to the campus.
Her advocacy work, public speeches, public works,
and community service address issues of education, policy and administration (Jackson State University),
economic and social justice, civil democracy, and ra- and further doctoral study in human and organization
cial and gender equity. She has been a Toll Fellow with development (Fielding Graduate University), and four
the Council of State Governments and a Public Schol- honorary doctorates (Wiley, Rust, and Benedict Col-
ar with the Kettering Foundation where her research leges and Brown University). She has done additional
focus was Higher Education and Civic Responsibility. professional study at Harvard University and Oxford
University in Oxford, England.
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