Dr. Sandra Thompson is a member of the Board of Directors of the
African American Success Foundation
and serves on the Grant Selection Committee
to
identify
AASF's
research priorities and grant recipients.
Sandra T. Thompson, Ph.D. is Interim President of Florida Memorial
University, South Florida’s only Historically Black University.
Dr. Thompson began her 30-year career with Florida Memorial as a
Professor of Sociology before becoming Chairperson of the Division of
Social Sciences, a post she held for nine years. Her performance as
Division Chair earned her a promotion to the post of Institutional
Self-Study Director.
She was selected to be Florida Memorial’s first Assistant Provost in
2002. Two years later, she was promoted to Associate Provost. Then in
July 2006, she became Provost. Dr. Thompson earned her bachelor’s degree
from Voorhees College in Denmark, South Carolina; her master’s degree
from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee; her certificate of French
from the University of Poitier in LaRochelle, France; her Ph.D. from the
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida; and a certificate from
Harvard University Graduate School of Education’s Institute of
Educational Management.
Dr. Thompson is a member of numerous civic and professional groups
including Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., the National Association of
Black Sociologists, and the Association of Women in Higher Education,
Parents and Friends of Children with Autism, the Board of Trustees of
Kinad, Inc, the African American Success Foundation (AASF), and the
Institute of Black Family Life. In addition, she is a member of the
Greater Mt. Pleasant A.M.E. Church. She was named as one of
South
Florida’s Most Influential and Prominent Black Women of 2007
and as
one of South Florida’s
50 Most Powerful Black Professionals of 2010.
A Miami native, Dr. Thompson is the widow of the late Tyree Thompson,
Jr., who was a graduate of Florida Memorial, and she is the devoted
mother of their two children, Rahmaan and Lillian.
