Tougaloo College has new prez

Dr. Carmen J. Walters has become the 14th president of Tougaloo (Miss.) College on July 1. She is the second female president of Tougaloo. Dr. Beverly Wade Hogan had held the post since 2002. Walters comes to Tougaloo from the post of executive VP of enrollment management, student success and institutional relations at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. She has also worked at Delgado Community College in New Orleans as executive assistant to the chancellor, and assistant to the vice chancellor for academic and student affairs. Walters has also worked as an instructor for Jefferson Parish (La.) Department of Employment and Training in Louisiana and as a high-school teacher in New Orleans. She received a bachelor's degree in from Southern University in Baton Rouge, La.; master's degree Xavier College in New Orleans; and a PhD in community-college leadership from Mississippi State University in 2009. (Source: Jackson Free Press 07/05/19)