UTSA President Ricardo Romo
President Bush appoints Romo to advisory board on black colleges
(Feb. 12, 2002)--President George W. Bush today appointed Ricardo Romo, president of the University of Texas at San Antonio, to serve on a 21-member President’s Board of Advisers on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Advisers were sworn in by President Bush during a meeting this morning in the Blue Room at the White House.
The 21-member group will advise the president on issues and challenges facing many of the country's historically Black institutions of higher education, including an expanding need at all institutions for additional scholarships.
"I am honored that the president selected me to serve with these distinguished individuals," Romo said. "Many of the issues confronting historically Black institutions are similar to challenges facing universities such as UTSA." Romo became president of UTSA in 1999.
Other appointees to the advisory board are:
Benjamin Franklin Payton, president of Tuskegee University (Alabama)
Dennis Ray Boxx, vice president for corporate communications, Lockheed
Martin, Bethesda, Md.
Arlene Cassandra Ackerman, superintendent, San Francisco Unified School
District
Hazo William Carter Jr., president, West Virginia State College
Lawrence Arnett Davis Jr., chancellor, University of Arkansas at Pine
Bluff
Harold Emanuel Doley Jr., president, Doley Security Inc., New Orleans
Elson Sylvester Floyd, president, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
Charles Alphonso Hines, president, Prairie View A&M University
(Texas)
Ernest Leon Holloway, president, Langston University (Oklahoma)
William English Kirwan, president, Ohio State University at Columbus;
chief executive, university system
Ronald Francis Mason Jr., president, Jackson State University (Mississippi)
Marie Valentine McDemmond, president, Norfolk State University (Virginia)
Bernard Joseph Milano, president, KPMG Foundation, Montvale, N.J.
Girard Cecil Miller, president, ICMA Retirement Corporation, Washington,
D.C.
James Carmichael Renick, chancellor, North Carolina Agricultural and
Technical State University, Greensboro
Dianne Boardley Suber, president, St. Augustine's College, Raleigh,
N.C.
Joyce Elaine Tucker, president, Tucker Spearman & Associates, Alexandria,
Va.
Timothy Gregory Walker, manager, governmental affairs, Mitsubishi Motors,
Normal, Ill.
Michael Lucius Lomax, president, Dillard University, New Orleans
John Kenneth Waddell, president, St. Paul's College, Lawrenceville,
Va.
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