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Volume 62 Number 1 • A Student Publication of St. Philip’s College • January 30, 2007
Loston Named New
St. Philip’s President
Submitted by Kay Hendricks and Leo Zuniga
On January 23, the Alamo Community
College District’s (ACCD) Board of Tmstees
appointed Adena Williams Loston, Ph.D.,
as the new president of St. Philip’s College.
Loston was selected by a search commit-
tee, which included business, political and
education leaders from across the county as
well as residents of the St. Philip’s College
area. She will assume her duties as president
on March 1.
“I am honored and humbled by this oppor-
tunity,” said Loston. “St. Philip’s College has
a rich heritage and legacy that spans over a
century as it ranks among the oldest and most
diverse institutions of higher education in the
nation. Its unique distinction as a Historically
Black College and a Hispanic Serving Institu-
tion places it in the forefront for meeting the
educational needs of the 21st Century and
beyond. I wish to thank Chancellor Leslie
and the Board of Trustees in their selection
process,” she added.
“We are fortunate to have an individual of Dr.
Loston’s caliber joining our ACCD family,” said
Leslie. “Her outstanding leadership qualities and
extensive experience will be invaluable as St.
Philip’s College moves forward in achieving
new levels of excellence,” he added.
Loston’s broad range of experience includes
30 years in higher education, as well as her most
recent position as NASA’s director of education
and special assistant for suborbital and special
orbital projects directorate at the Goddard Space
Flight Center, Wallops Flight Facility. She
joined NASA in 2002 as the administrator’s
senior education advisor and assumed the po-
sition of associate administrator for education
later that same year. She then served as chief
education officer at NASA headquarters in
Washington, D.C.
Prior to joining NASA, she served as presi-
dent of San Jacinto College South in Houston
for five years, as executive dean/provost at
both the Transmountain Campus and
the Valle Verde Campus of the El Paso
County Community College District, as
the dean of professional programs and
dean of vocational education, budgets
and facilities at Santa Monica College
in California and supervisor of office
occupations programs at Houston Com-
munity College.
Loston’s teaching experience in-
cludes serving as an associate profes-
sor at Georgia State University, as an
instructor at Arkansas State University
and Houston Community College and
as an adjunct instructor at the University of
Houston-Downtown and Texas Southern
University.
Loston earned her B.S. in business educa-
tion, graduating cum laude from Alcorn State
University. She received a master’s in educa-
tion with an emphasis on business education
from Bowling Green State University. She then
earned a Ph.D. in educational administration
and supervision. She holds an honorary doctor-
ate of science from Wiley College and attended
the Institute for Educational Management at
Harvard University and the Oxford Round
Table at Oxford University and participated in
The Leadership Journey at Wharton Business
School.
Loston’s professional affiliations include
serving as a life member of the Texas Associa-
tion of Black Personnel in Higher Education
(TABPHE), where she also served on the board
of directors. Previous associations include
having served as a member of the Texas As-
sociation of Community Colleges Performance
Measures Committee, the National Science
and Technology Subcommittee on Workforce
Development and the American Association
of Community Colleges National Research
Commission. Loston was the only community
college representative named to the Statewide
Health Coordinating Council by Governor Bush
and reappointed by Governor Perry. Loston also
served on the Texas Higher Education Coordi-
nating Board’s Task Force on Development of
the Technology Workforce, one of four task
forces responsible for developing the “Closing
the Gaps” higher education plan 2000-2015 for
the state of Texas.
Loston’s numerous accolades include the
Community Leadership Award from the Thur-
good Marshall Scholarship Fund, the Global
Messenger Award from the Southeast Consor-
tium for Minorities in Engineering, the NAACP
Daisy Bates Education Advisory Award, the
Exceptional Achievement Medal, Outstanding
Medal of Leadership and three Group Achieve-
ment Awards from NASA, the TABPHE Presi-
dential Award and Phi Theta Kappa’s Shirley
B. Gordon International Presidential Award of
Distinction. She also has been recognized with
the Distinguished Alumni Award from Alcom
State University, the Outstanding Leadership
award from Arkansas State University’s Strong-
Turner Alumni Chapter and the Accomplished
Graduate award from Bowling Green State
University.
Loston is the author of numerous publica-
tions and is in high demand as a speaker at the
local, state, national and international level.
While at NASA, she made budget presentations
before the U.S. Congress and briefed the White
House Domestic Policy Council and other U.S.
Government agencies.
C’mon, LEND A HAND!
The Department of Student Life is recruiting faculty and staff
members who would like to help student success through
extracurricular activities. These activities include guest speakers,
workshops, novelty entertainment, live bands, student travel,
campus events, and much more. If you have an interest in
working with students outside of the classroom,
please email John Martin at jmartin@accd.edu
ATTENTION STUDENTS:
The deadline to apply
for May 2007 graduation is
Wednesday, January 31 at 7:00 p.m.
• • •
Graduation application cards may be
picked up from your department advisor
Civil Rights
Documentalist to
Speak for Black
History Month
Submitted by Grace Newton
In observance of Black History month, Civil
Rights documentalist, Rachel L. Emanuel will,
present her hour-long documentary “Taking A
Seat For Justice: The 1960 Baton Rouge Sit-
Ins,” on Friday, February 2, from 9-11 a.m. in
the Morgan Gallery. Emanuel will also present
this program at 12 noon at Palo Alto College in
the Performing Arts Building, room 100A. Both
presentations are free and open to the public.
Emanuel is the director of publications and
electronic media for the Southern University
Law Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her
documentary chronicles the events of the
Southern University students who conducted
sit-ins at Sitman’s Drugstore, Kress Depart-
ment Store, and, the Greyhound Bus Station
in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in protest of racial
segregation laws.
All eyes were on Southern University during
the 1960s demonstrations that attracted media
attention and placed the issues of race relations,
discrimination, and the struggle for simple
justice before the American public in a unique
new way. The demonstrations resulted in the
first such case to receive a favorable opinion
by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1961 and the
documentary highlights another important link
in Louisiana’s historical significance to civil
rights jurisprudence.
The program includes rare audio recordings
and archival footage of Southern University
President Felton G. Clark, audio recordings
of the United States Supreme Court hearing
of the Gamer case, and interviews with sit-in
participants, their local attorney, as well as a
newspaper reporter who covered the case, along
with prominent political scientists.
For more information, please contact John
Martin at 531-3241.
Join the Tiger Team as I
We Race for a Cure!
The web site for the Susan G. Komen |
Race for a Cure is up and running so you i
can now register to join the SPC Tiger Team!
This year’s walk is scheduled for March 31 '
at the Alamodome. The entry fee of $25 is |
tax-deductible and can be mailed in if you |
wish.
To register, go to www.sakomen.org/md
click on the links to “Register with an Exist- I
ing Team.”'This way, you will be added to |
our team roster automatically! Last year, the |
Tiger Team raised over $650; this year our ■
team goal is $1,000. We can do it because we *
are St. Philip’s and we care! For more infor- I
mation call Rita Fonseca, at 531 -3321. |
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