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College of Saint Elizabeth Appoints Next Vice President and Dean of
Academic Affairs
Monique Guillory-Winfield will be the new Vice President and Dean of Academic Affairs at College of
Saint Elizabeth. Dr. Guillory-Winfield has 20 years of diverse experience in higher education
administration. She is currently serving as the Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs for the
Southern University System – the only historically black higher education system in the country. At
Southern, Dr. Winfield serves as the liaison between the system’s five campuses and the State Board of
Regents facilitating compliance with state performance-funding measures and managing academic
program development and review. Prior to this positon, Dr. Winfield served as the Special Assistant to
the Administration at Xavier University of Louisiana where she managed numerous initiatives and
special projects ranging from assessment and accreditation to international programs and student
retention.
As the former Deputy Chief of Staff at Jackson State University, Dr. Winfield served as the founding
director of the Mississippi Learning Institute – a multi-million dollar professional development school
that yielded double-digit improvements in student achievement in the Jackson Public Schools District. In
this capacity she established collaborative partnerships with various institutions and organizations
throughout the State of Mississippi including the State Superintendent’s Office for the Mississippi
Department of Education, Parents for Public Schools, Jackson Public Schools, and the Barksdale Reading
Institute. Dr. Winfield possesses particular expertise in program assessment, accreditation, curricular
proposal development, student learning outcomes, and strategic planning.
Dr. Winfield holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from New York University in Comparative Literature and
Performance Studies where she won the Arthur J. Schomburg Award for Excellence in the Humanities.
She is the co-editor of Soul: Black Power, Politics and Pleasure (NYU:1998) and is a 1991 Mellon Fellow.
Dr. Winfield earned her B.A. in Rhetorical Communication and English Literature from Tulane University
of New Orleans.