The Next Provost at Southern Wesleyan University

Tonya Strickland has been appointed provost at Southern Wesleyan University, effective July 1. The university, in Central, South Carolina, enrolls about 1,700 students. Women make up more than 60 percent of the undergraduate student body.

Dr. Strickland is a tenured professor of English and the vice president for academic affairs at Bainbridge State College in Georgia. She joined the faculty at the university in 2010.

Professor Strickland holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism from the University of Wyoming. She earned a doctorate in curriculum and instruction from Baylor University in Waco, Texas.