Tomikia LeGrande was announced on Thursday as the sole finalist to become the next Prairie View A&M University president, one of Texas’ two historically Black public universities. If approved, LeGrande will take over at the end of the current academic year.
while also helping with fundraising and creating a new university leadership training program. Simmons, a Houston native, is widely known as an innovator in the higher education world.
LeGrande has worked in Texas higher education before. Between 2012 and 2018 she served as a student affairs and enrollment management administrator at the University of Houston-Downtown. She also earned a doctorate in higher education administration from Texas Tech University, a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Savannah State University and a master’s degree in chemistry from North Carolina A&T State University.
Prairie View A&M’s enrollment currently hovers around 9,200 students, according to preliminary enrollment numbers for the fall semester. That number has remained largely flat even during the COVID-19 pandemic. “PVAMU has a strong legacy of transforming the lives of its students and contributing to the surrounding region and state of Texas, both educationally and economically,” LeGrande said in a statement. “I look forward to working with the faculty, staff, and community as we honor and build upon the university's powerful legacy and upward trajectory.”
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