Dr. Angela Radford Lewis, chair of the Family and Consumer Sciences Department within East Tennessee State University’s College of Business and Technology, has been selected by the Tennessee Board of Regents, the nation’s sixth largest system of higher education and ETSU’s governing body, to participate in the 2008 Maxine Smith Fellows Program.
Maxine Smith, for whom the fellowship is named, served two terms as a member of the TBR. A noted educator and civil rights leader from Memphis, she has been a board member of the Memphis branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People since 1957. Devoting much of her life to education, Smith served 24 years on the Memphis Board of Education.
The program originally provided opportunities for African American employees of TBR schools to participate in a working and learning environment that will enhance their work experience and career development. It has now been broadened to embrace all under-represented faculty and staff.
Dr. Gary Goff, president of Roane State Community College, will serve as Lewis’s mentor during her fellowship.
For further information about the award, contact Lewis at (423) 439-7534 or at lewisaw@etsu.edu.

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