The R.I. Board of Governors for Higher Education approved the appointment of Community College of Rhode Island faculty member Lela Morgan of Providence as interim vice president for academic affairs, effective March 12. The board approved the appointment March 6.
Morgan replaces current Vice President of Academic Affairs Ruth Sherman, who is leaving CCRI to become a national program director for an educational nonprofit organization. The college is currently forming a search committee to choose a permanent vice president, and hopes to have the position filled by the fall semester.
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Currently chairperson of the college’s Allied Health Department, Morgan joined CCRI in 1967 as a professor in the Clinical Laboratory Technology Program. Morgan is also currently director/clinical education coordinator for the CCRI clinical lab program. Morgan has previously served as president for John Hope Settlement House and the Urban League Guild of R.I.
Before CCRI, Morgan worked in various health care positions at the Miriam Hospital in Providence, Allen Memorial Hospital in Iowa and St. Joseph Hospital in Michigan.
