Stephen Parker has been appointed university dean of graduate education at Johnson & Wales University. He focuses on ensuring quality control throughout the University’s multi-campus system for M.B.A. initiatives and enhancing what the University has already accomplished at the Alan Shawn Feinstein Graduate School at the Providence campus. He has over 30 years of experience in higher education. Parker received a bachelor’s degree from Randolph Macon College in Ashland, Va., his master’s degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Va., and his doctorate degree from American University in Washington, D.C. He lives in Cumberland.













