In addition to serving as poet laureate for the city of St. Louis, LeFlore was an educator. She was the first African American assistant dean of students at what is now Webster University in Missouri.
The new business school deans are Sharon F. Matusik at the University of Colorado-Boulder, Simone Cummings at Webster University in St. Louis, Debra Louis at Trident University in Cypress, California, and Kathy White Loyd at Arkansas State University.
Bettsey Barhorst, who has served as president of Madison College in Wisconsin since 2004, has announced that she will step down before the start of the fall semester. Madison College, also known as Madison Area Technical College, enrolls more than 40,000 students on five campuses.