Florida Memorial University appoints its interim president
MIAMI GARDENS, FL (Black PR Wire) – The Board of Trustees of Florida Memorial University announces the appointment of Dr. Roslyn Clark Artis as Interim President, effective July 15, 2013.
An experienced professional, Dr. Artis is a Trustee Scholar graduate in Higher Education Leadership and Policy from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., where she earned her Doctorate in Higher Education Leadership and Policy. She received her Juris Doctorate degree from West Virginia University College of Law in Morgantown, West Virginia, and her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from West Virginia State College Institute in West Virginia.
Throughout her career, Dr. Artis’ academic interests include student retention, particularly as it relates to adult and non-traditional students, academic and co-curricular support structures in alternative learning modalities, strategic planning, institutional effectiveness and student learning outcomes assessment. She has also served as Partner at Assessment by Design, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in the development and implementation of comprehensive assessment strategies for academic and co-curricular programs in higher education; Attorney at the Wooton Law Firm, Adjunct Professor at The College of West Virginia, and Associate Attorney at Brown & Levicoff PLLC, among other notable positions.
Located in the City of Miami Gardens, Florida Memorial University is a private, historically Black institution offering 41 undergraduate degree programs and four graduate degree programs to a culturally diverse student body.
Florida Memorial University is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). For more information about FMU, visit www.fmuniv.edu.
For more information on the appointment of Dr. Artis, contact Bernadette Morris of Sonshine Communications at (305) 948-8063, ext. 201.
