Advocate Hopes to Use International Experience to Build HBCU Capacity

Advocate Hopes to Use International Experience to Build HBCU Capacity: Dr. Boyce C. Williams had already secured her legacy as an advocate for Black colleges and African-American teachers when she accepted a new position last month at the National Association for Equal Opportunity and Higher Education.

The former vice president for institutional relations at the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), Williams helped develop a strategy that doubled by 2001 the number of education programs at historically Black colleges and universities that pursued or earned accreditation, up from 40 percent of those programs in 1991.

After nearly two decades of providing quality teacher instruction to departments and colleges seeking accreditation, Williams has a new task: helping HBCUs secure a place in the 21st century.