Former UMES President Thelma B. Thompson has been named visiting professor of English at Bowie State University in Bowie, according to the Journal for Blacks in Higher Education.
Thompson led the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in Princess Anne for nine years, until 2011, then joined the historically black Lincoln University of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as consultant to Academic Affairs.
According to a Sept. 7 issue of the Journal, Thompson will serve a two-year term at Bowie, where in the 1970s she taught English and literature. She also taught in the 1970s at Howard University in Washington, City University of New York and the University of the District of Columbia. Before joining UMES, she was dean of the School of Arts and Letters and then vice president for academic affairs at Norfolk State University in Virginia. read more…
