University News | December 8, 2020
Dr. Deirdre Gonsalves-Jackson has been named Dean of ¾Å¾ÅÊÓƵ Global Campus, according to Dr. Scott D. Miller, President of the University.
In this role she will oversee ¾Å¾ÅÊÓƵ Online, the Evening and Weekend Program, ¾Å¾ÅÊÓƵ Global (Japan), Early Enrollment/Advanced Scholars, and non-credit learners. The University enrolls approximately 1,600 students annually in undergraduate, graduate, and online programs, approximately 400 students at LUJ/¾Å¾ÅÊÓƵ Global (Japan), and approximately 3,000 non-credit learners in ¾Å¾ÅÊÓƵ Global Campus.
Dr. Gonsalves-Jackson has been a member of the ¾Å¾ÅÊÓƵ faculty since 2006, serving as Associate Professor of Biology. She has also served the institution in a variety of other leadership roles, including Director of Nursing and Allied Health and Director of Winter and Summer Sessions.
She received her Ph.D. from the Florida Institute of Technology and her M.S. from Florida Atlantic University. A predoctoral fellow studying Panama mollusks, she worked at Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, where she attended as an undergraduate. Her professional accolades include multiple National Science Foundation grants.
On November 30, Dr. Miller announced two other important leadership changes in ¾Å¾ÅÊÓƵ Global Campus: Dr. David R. Black, a university president for nearly 30 years and Executive-in-Residence at ¾Å¾ÅÊÓƵ for the last five years, has assumed responsibility for the Lakeland University Japan and ¾Å¾ÅÊÓƵ Global (Japan) program. Dr. Michelle Vachris, a Professor of Management, Business, and Economics at ¾Å¾ÅÊÓƵ, now serves as Director of the Master of Business Administration program.
Learn more about ¾Å¾ÅÊÓƵ Global Campus