NORMAN—Dr. Belinda Biscoe, senior affiliate vice chairman of variety on the College of Oklahoma, has been named president of the board of administrators of the Oklahoma Increased Training Heritage Society.
Her time period begins in January.
She is going to change Dr. John Fearer, president of the College of science & Arts of Oklahoma.
The board works to protect and promote the heritage of Oklahoma increased training.
Board members are elected on the group’s annual December assembly and serve two-year phrases and officers serve one-year phrases.
Dr. Biscoe was named to the society’s Corridor of Fame in 2015 and was named to the board in 2016.
She stated being named board president is an particularly excessive honor because the society “has meant a lot to me and my household.”
“My Mother returned to varsity after I was 5 years-old,” she recalled. “She matriculated at Spelman Faculty, a traditionally Black faculty for ladies in Atlanta.
“I nonetheless keep in mind attending her commencement and the profound affect her achievement had on me.”
“Watching at the very least 300 African-American ladies stroll down the aisle of Sisters Chapel at Spelman to obtain their levels to the organ sounds of ‘Pomp and Circumstance’ left an inescapable reminiscence on my younger thoughts in regards to the affect of upper training on the lives of girls like my Mother,” Dr. Bisco continued.
“The Oklahoma Increased Training Heritage Society’s mission to keep up Oklahoma’s increased training historical past and to intensify consciousness about increased training’s vital position in enhancing each facet of our state, economically, culturally and socially, is a mission I utterly assist and imagine is necessary to our state’s development, power and the standard of life for each Oklahoman.”
Dr. Biscoe stated, “Whereas it’s an honor to be a part of the society’s Corridor of Fame, I’m particularly wanting ahead to advancing the society’s mission as president of the board.”
She stated her plans to maintain previous corridor inductees related and dealing with the board.
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