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The UNC Board of Gove r n o r sapproved the appointment of threen ew deans at No rth Caro l i n aAgricultural and Technical State Un i ve r s i t ythis summer.Phillip Care y, Ph.D., is dean of theCollege of Arts and Sciences. He re p l a c e sDr. Ethel Ta y l o r, who served as interimdean for three years. Taylor has resumed afaculty position.Prior to coming to A&T, Carey wasd i rector of the Institute for LeadershipDe velopment at Il l i n ova Un i ve r s i t y, a divisionof Illinois Powe r / Il l i n ova Corporationlocated in Decatur. Carey oversaw the leadershipand management education programfor 4,200 employees.C a re y’s professionalbackground includesyears of experiencein academicadministrationand teaching andpublic administration,includingpre s i d e n t ,Phillip Carey, Ph.D.BahamasCommonwealthCollege; associate vice president of academicand administrative affairs, LangstonUn i versity; and deputy dire c t o r,Government of the Bahamas Na t i o n a lInsurance Board.A native of Nassau, Bahamas, Care yre c e i ved a bachelor’s degree in general psychologyfrom Oakwood College andOklahoma State Un i ve r s i t y, a master’s insocial and industrial psychology fro mOklahoma State Un i versity and a doctoratein sociology and higher educationadministration from Oklahoma St a t eUniversity.Joseph Mo n roe, Ph.D., is dean of theCollege of Engineering. He replaces Dr.Lonnie Sharpe, who has returned to amechanical engineering faculty position.Mo n roe joined the A&T faculty in1991 as Jefferson Pi l o t / Ronald E. Mc Na i rEn d owed Chair Professor of ComputerScience. Prior to this appointment, he alsos e rved as chair of the computer scienceN e wD e a n sA p p o i n t e dJoseph Monroe, Ph.D.department.Before comingto A&T,h e w a s a nadministrator atFa yetteville St a t eUniversity and atUNC Ge n e r a lAd m i n i s t r a t i o n .His experiencealso includesprofessorshipsand administrative positions at the U.S. AirForce Academy.An alumnus of N.C. A&T, Mo n ro ehas a B.S. degree in mathematics, En g l i s hand French. His M.S. and Ph.D. degrees incomputer science are from Texas A&MUniversity.Alton Thompson, Ph.D., is dean of theSchool of Agriculture and En v i ro n m e n t a land Allied Sciences. He replaces Dr. DanielGo d f re y, who has returned to a facultyposition.Thompson first came to A&T in 1982as an adjunct assistant professor in thed e p a rtment ofagricultural economicsand ruralsociology. He leftin 1989 andreturned to thed e p a rtment in1991 as adjunctassociate pro f e s-sor and dire c t o rof the Ap p l i e dSu rvey Re s e a rc hAlton Thompson, Ph.D.L a b o r a t o ry. A year later he was named actingchair and associate professor of thedepartment. In 1996, he was named chair.Thompson has held teaching positionsat No rfolk State Un i versity and No rt hC a rolina State Un i ve r s i t y. In addition, he hass e rved as a consultant to the state unive r s i t i e sof Colorado, Kentucky and South Caro l i n aand the Rural Ad vancement Fo u n d a t i o nInternational-USA; and he has been a visitingscholar at Michigan State Un i ve r s i t y.Thompson earned his B.S. degree insociology from No rth Carolina CentralUn i versity and his M.A. and Ph.D. degre e sin demography/population studies methodologyand demography/population studiesmethodology and social statistics urban sociologyand human ecology, re s p e c t i ve l y, fro mThe Ohio State Un i ve r s i t y.Leila L. Vickers, Ph.D., is dean of theSchool of Education. She replaces Dr.David Boger,who has retiredand returned tothe classroom.Vickerswas a professorof education atWinston-SalemState University(WSSU) beforejoining theLeila L. Vickers, Ph.D. administrativeteam at A&T. She held several other leadershiproles at WSSU including divisiondirector/dean of education, assistant to thedirector of education, director of theminority teaching assistants program,director of model clinical teaching andchair of the faculty senate.For eight years, Vickers served on theUnit Accreditation Board (UAB) for theNational Council for the A c c r e d i t a t i o n( N C ATE) and she is currently on theboard of examiners for NCATE and servingas president of the North CarolinaAssociation of Colleges for Te a c h e rEducation. In addition, she is a memberof the North Carolina Association ofEducators and state chair of NewProfessional Teacher Project.A Fulbright Scholar,Vickers receivedher B.A. in English from Miles College,her M.A. in reading from A t l a n t aUniversity and her Ph.D. in reading fromDuke University. ■14 A&T TODAY/FALL 2000