CAU Appoints Business School Dean to University President.
Clark Atlanta University’s School of Business Administration is in store for some leadership changes this summer. The CAU Board of Trustees appointed TSU’s Jesse H. Jones School of Business dean, Ronald A. Johnson, Ph.D. as university president. Johnson will take over his new role on July 1, 2015. CAU’s current President, Carlton E. Brown Ed. D., will retire on June 30.
Johnson is originally from Brooklyn, N.Y. He earned his B.A. in economics and an MBA in finance from Adelphi University. He went on to get the M.A and the Ph.D. degrees in economics from Stanford University. Johnson has worked at major investment organizations across the country where he managed assets totally more than $2 billion, including Smith Graham & Company and Templeton Worldwide. He has also served as dean of two business schools and held professorships at well-respected educational institutions.
Joe Laymon, CAU Trustee, vice president for human resources at Chevron Corp., and leader of the Board’s 12-member Presidential Search Committee gave his thoughts on Johnson to CAU. “Our search was intentionally broad,” he notes. “We carefully reviewed more than 100 applications from across the United States. Our fundamental qualifications for the position were rooted in the University’s strategic plan, the realities of the current economic climate, the prevailing legislative environment and the increasingly competitive global student recruitment marketplace. One candidate, Ronald Johnson, consistently stood out during the intensive, very detailed vetting phases of the process. He possesses the skill, experience and vision necessary to provide the leadership and focus required to elevate Clark Atlanta and reposition it in the international arena.”
