Prominent figure in HBCU advocacy will deliver opening
keynote at second MS-CC annual meeting later this month
WASHINGTON, May 2, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- Walter M. Kimbrough — the former
president of Dillard University and a
prominent figure in HBCU advocacy — will deliver the opening
keynote at the 2024 Annual Meeting for the Minority Serving -
Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (MS-CC), May
29-31, in Washington,
D.C.
The opening keynote address will occur at 9:15 a.m. ET on Thursday, May 30, at the
Mayflower Hotel.
Passionate Advocate for Students
Kimbrough began
his career in student affairs, holding the position of vice
president for student affairs at Albany State
University. Prior to this role, he held positions at
Emory University, Georgia State University, and Old Dominion University.
Kimbrough's path led him to Philander Smith
College in Little Rock,
Arkansas, where, at the age of 37, he was appointed as the
12th president of the college. In 2012, he became the 7th president
of Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Kimbrough leveraged his influence as president of a historically
Black college and university (HBCU) to become a voice in the
community. He hosted campus events at Dillard
University, including the Black Male Summit, in an effort to
improve the number of Black males who complete college and pursue
successful careers.
Kimbrough notably hosted a convening for Louisiana's HBCUs, the White House Initiative
on HBCUs, the United Negro College Fund, and several of the state's
major economic organizations to identify ways for HBCUs to more
actively engage in economic development.
Published Author and Thought Leader
Kimbrough is a
renowned scholar on fraternities and sororities and a thought
leader on HBCUs and Black men in college. He is a member of
Alpha Phi Alpha, Fraternity Inc.,
and author of Black Greek 101: The Culture, Customs and
Challenges of Black Fraternities and Sororities.
Kimbrough has garnered frequent recognition for his leadership.
In 2010, he earned a coveted spot on Ebony Magazine's Power
100 list. Three years later, he was honored among The Grio
100: History Makers in the Making. In the subsequent years,
he was celebrated as the HBCU Male President of the Year by HBCU
Digest, while also being recognized by TheBestSchools.org as one of
the 20 Most Interesting College Presidents.
The HBCU Campaign Fund distinguished Kimbrough as one of the
10 Most Dominant HBCU Leaders of 2018, and College Cliffs
included him among their 50 Top U.S. College and University
Presidents in 2020. His alma mater, Georgia State University, recognized him with the
Distinguished Alumni Award in 2021.
Kimbrough earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Georgia, his master's degree from
Miami University in Ohio, and a doctorate in higher education from
Georgia State University.
Second Annual Meeting
The MS-CC Annual Meetings are
gatherings of peers, practitioners, community-builders, advocates,
and leaders from historically Black colleges and universities
(HBCUs), tribal colleges and universities (TCUs), Hispanic-serving
institutions (HSIs), and the broader community of minority-serving
institutions (MSIs).
It is a once-a-year opportunity to come together and create a
space where HBCUs and TCUs lead the conversation around sustainable
campus-level IT capabilities for data-intensive education and
research programs.
The MS-CC Annual Meetings are made possible thanks to support
and funding from the National Science Foundation under awards
#2137123 and #2234326.
Registration is now open. To learn more and secure your spot,
visit the event website.
About the Minority Serving – Cyberinfrastructure Consortium
(MS-CC)
We envision a transformational consortium that
promotes advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) and advanced
technologies for teaching, learning, research, and enterprise
technology capabilities at historically under-resourced HBCUs,
TCUs, HSIs, and MSIs. We seek to lift participating institutions by
advancing technology infrastructure for research and education. We
will contribute the unique voices, cultural identities, and
interests of our community to research and education nationally and
beyond.
The MS-CC in partnership with Internet2 received funding from
the National Science Foundation to support this vision. The grants
contribute nearly $3 million over two
years to fund a Cyberinfrastructure Center of Excellence Pilot in
2021 (NSF Award # 2137123), and nearly $15
million over five years to support accelerating
cyberinfrastructure-centric research capacity at HBCUs and TCUs
through proof-of-concept grants and shared resources in 2022 (NSF
Award # 2234326). The MS-CC has also been awarded nearly
$2.5 million NSF supplement to
develop the MS-CC Collaboratory in Climate Science. The consortium
emerged from a pilot project funded by the National Science
Foundation through Clemson University
(NSF Award #1659297).
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