PRESIDENT'S CABINET


   

Dr. Daniel S. Papp
President

Dr. Lendley C. Black
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

Dr. Randy C. Hinds
Vice President for Operations
Chief Information Officer/Chief Business Officer and Professor of Information Systems

Dr. Jerome Ratchford
Vice President for Student Success and Enrollment Services

Dr. Wesley K. Wicker
Vice President for University Advancement and Executive Director of the KSU Foundation

Dr. Flora Devine
University Attorney & Special Assistant to the President for Legal Affairs

Arlethia Perry-Johnson
Special Assistant to the President for External Affairs

Dr. Jorge Perez
Faculty Executive Assistant to the President

Dr. Jennifer A. Wade-Berg
Chief Diversity Officer

Lynda K. Johnson
Executive Assistant to the President


Daniel S. Papp
President

papp headshotDaniel S. Papp became the third president of Kennesaw State University July 1, 2006. Prior to being named president by the Board of Regents, Papp served as senior vice chancellor for academics and fiscal affairs of the University System of Georgia. Senior vice chancellor since 2000, Papp was responsible for system-wide academic, faculty and student issues and concerns; business and financial affairs; academic and business information-technology systems; and strategic planning affecting all of the university system’s 35 institutions. Before becoming senior vice chancellor, Papp directed educational programs for Yamacraw, Georgia’s initiative to become the global leader in broadband technologies and components. Papp served as interim president of Southern Polytechnic State University from 1997 to 1998 and as executive assistant to the president at Georgia Tech from 1994 to 1997.

An international affairs expert, Papp was the founding director of Georgia Tech’s Sam Nunn School of International Affairs from 1990 to 1993 and director of the Georgia Tech School of Social Sciences from 1980 to 1990. He joined Georgia Tech’s faculty in 1973 as an assistant professor of international affairs. While at Tech, Papp was also visiting professor at the Western Australia Institute of Technology; research professor at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College; senior research professor at the Center for Aerospace Doctrine, Research and Education of the U.S. Air War College; and visiting professor at Fudan University in Shanghai. In 1993, Papp was selected Georgia Tech’s “Distinguished Professor,” the first time the honor was awarded to someone other than an engineer or physical scientist. He has twice been awarded the U.S. Department of the Army’s “Outstanding Civilian Service” medal.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Dartmouth College, Papp received his doctorate in international affairs from the University of Miami. His academic specialties include international security policy, U.S. and Russian foreign and defense policies, and international system change. He is the author or editor of 10 books on these topics, including the biography of former U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk. He also has published more than 60 journal articles and chapters in edited books.

Many organizations have funded Papp’s research, including the U.S. Department of the Army, the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Information Agency, the U.S. Institute of Peace, the U.S. Department of Education and NATO. He has traveled widely in the former USSR, China, Europe, Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa. He has held a Sloan Scholarship and a National Defense Education Act Fellowship.

Papp is past chairman of the American-Soviet Relations and Southern Sections of the International Studies Association, senior fellow for international security at the Southern Center for International Studies, and a member of the Society of International Business Fellows.

Papp is married to Susan Lord Papp. He has two sons, William and Alexander; two stepsons, Michael and Benjamin; and a granddaughter, Elena. He has served on the Church Council of the Lutheran Church of the Resurrection in Marietta, Ga., and coached youth basketball and football. He is a past captain of the Miami, Atlanta and Georgia Tech rugby football clubs. He has also been a participant in several Friendship Force home-stay programs in Russia.

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Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies

Dr. Lendley C. Black (Lynn) joined Kennesaw State University as Vice President for Academic Affairs in August 2002. In the summer of 2006, he assumed the added responsibilities of Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs under KSU’s new president, Dr. Daniel S. Papp. He previously served nine years as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emporia State University in Kansas.

Dr. Black is a Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at KSU and stays connected to his academic roots through lecturing, leading workshops and team-teaching. In addition to
his academic work at Kennesaw State University, he also taught and directed major theatre productions at Emporia State University, the University of Kansas, the University of Connecticut, and the University of Tennessee at Martin. His teaching interests include directing, theatre performance, theatre history, dramatic literature, theatre appreciation, and fine arts. A member of the honor society of Phi Kappa Phi, Dr. Black’s primary research area is Russian theatre and drama. He wrote a biography about Michael Chekhov, and gave lectures about Chekhov and other aspects of theatre at several international conferences. In fall 2006, he presented at the Shanghai Theatre Academy’s International Symposium of Drama School Directors, his third invitational lecture at this distinguished theatre institution.  Dr. Black has also published in the areas of academic advising and academic program assessment. 

A native of Memphis, Tennessee, Dr. Black has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Tennessee at Martin, a Master of Arts degree in theatre from the University of Connecticut, and a Ph.D. degree in theatre from the University of Kansas.

Dr. Black is active in several community and global initiatives and has held leadership positions in such organizations as United Way (appointed chairman for 2007 Cobb County United Way campaign), Habitat for Humanity, and Kiwanis. In September of 2006, he traveled to China with a delegation led by Atlanta Mayor
Shirley Franklin and the Atlanta Metro Chamber of Commerce, and in 2008 he traveled with the Atlanta Regional Commission’s LINK (Leadership, Involvement, Networking, and Knowledge) trip to Denver, Colorado.

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Randy C. Hinds
Vice President for Operations
Chief Information Officer/Chief Business Officer
and Professor of Information Systems

hinds photoRandy C. Hinds is Vice President for Operations, and Chief Information Officer/Chief Business Officer at Kennesaw State University. Hinds joined Kennesaw State as the university’s first CIO in 1998. He has primary oversight responsibility for all academic and administrative information activities, financial services, safety, security, HR, facilities services, auxiliary operations, institutional research, and library support including archives.

Hinds came to KSU after completing a distinguished 30-year military career where he served in a variety of information technology leadership positions. His final military assignment was at the National Defense University in Washington D.C., where he served in leadership roles with the School of Information Warfare and Strategy, and the Department of Defense’s Command and Control Research Program.

Hinds’ research interests include investigating the relationship between information systems and organizational learning. He holds professor of information systems status at KSU and lectures within the university’s graduate and undergraduate communications, computer science, and information systems degree programs. At the national level, he has served as a key member of the EDUCAUSE Current Issues Committee charged with identifying the critical information technology issues facing higher education institutions.

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Jerome Ratchford
Interim Vice President for Student Success and Enrollment Services

King photoDr. Jerome Ratchford is Interim Vice President for Student Success and Enrollment Services at Kennesaw State University (KSU) in Kennesaw, Georgia.  Prior to this position, Dr. Ratchford was Interim Dean of Student Success and Director of Student Development.  
Dr. Ratchford has also held academic and administrative positions at Talladega College, Emory University and Lincoln University (Missouri).  Academically, Dr. Ratchford taught graduate-level educational leadership and curriculum development courses to aspiring principals and career teachers, and a graduate level course on how to work effectively with students who are culturally different to college student personnel professionals.  
Dr. Ratchford has had administrative oversight or provided leadership to  a number of units to include: Graduate Educational Programs, Department of Education, Lincoln University; Equal Opportunity Program, Emory University; Grants and Contracts, Title III Program, Talladega College; Career Counseling and Placement Services, Student Activities and the Thirteen College Curriculum Program at Talladega College; and Counseling Supervision at Atterbury Job Corps Center.  He is an accomplished grants writer having written and received a grant for over $900,000 from the U.S. Department of Education for the Title III Program at Talladega College, Talladega Alabama.  Dr. Ratchford received a B.A. in Education from the University     of Kentucky in History and Political Science, a M.S. in Counseling and Guidance from Indiana University and a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership in Higher Education from Bowling Green State University (OH).

Dr. Ratchford has served on innumerable academic and task-oriented committees while  at Kennesaw State University.  Some notable involvements include: Study Team Member, AASCU Hispanic Student Success Study; Task Force on the Foundations of Excellence in the First Year of College; Task Force for a Masters in Public Administration (MPA) Concentration in Student Services; Coordinating Committee, SACS Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP); Chancellor’s Task Force on Pre-College Programs for Youth in At-Risk Situations (PREP); and a member of the Steering Committee for the NCAA Division I Self-Study Certification.

The Dr. Jerome Ratchford Award of Excellence was established by the Executive Board of the African American Student Alliance (AASA).  Dr. Ratchford, the founder of AASA, was recognized for his leadership and service in promoting pluralism and an Afrocentric presence on Kennesaw State University’s campus.

Among his many accomplishments, Dr. Ratchford was instrumental in bringing Greek-letter and other premier organizations on campus; obtaining line-item status (a budget) and office space for AASA; diversifying the student representation on the university’s student activities fee allocation committee (SABAC); fostering the Black Alumni Society and the Human Relations Council; founding the Cultural Awareness and Resource Center (CARC); obtaining stipends for AASA executives; removing obstacles that generally stymied the qualify of life for Black faculty, staff and students on KSU’s campus; and,   in helping expand the growth in Black enrollment from 231 students in 1987 to 1,772 in 2002 (667% growth), etc.  The Dr. Jerome Ratchford Award of Excellence is bestowed on a faculty, staff or student honoree who has exhibited behaviors at KSU that equate with the legacy briefly described above.

Dr Ratchford received Kennesaw State University’s Administrative Service Award in recognition of administrators who go “above and beyond the call of duty, providing invaluable service to the campus community; ” the prestigious Betty L. Siegel Award, named in honor of the nationally recognized former President, Betty L. Siegel.  This award “seeks to recognize an individual who exemplifies outstanding qualities of scholarship, leadership and service to the Kennesaw State University community.”  He has also received a number of other awards which include but are not limited to the following:  Administrator of the Year, CEEP/Cobb NAACP Education Award, Cobb NAACP Certificate of Honor for Meritorious Service, Golden Key International Honour Society’s Ford Fellowship for Black Administrative Officers; and, Graduate Fellowship, Department of Educational Administration and Supervision, Bowling Green State University.

Dr. Ratchford holds the following lifetime certificates as issued by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education: Teaching (Social Studies, 7-12); School Psychological Examiner (K-12); Secondary Principal; and Superintendent.  His memberships include Georgia College Personnel Association, American College Personnel Association, International Mentoring Association, National Association of School Personnel Administrators, and the NAACP.

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Wesley K. Wicker, Ed.D
Vice President for University Advancement and Executive Director of KSU Foundation

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Wesley K. Wicker was named Interim Vice President of Advancement for Kennesaw State University as of September 1, 2002 and Executive Director of the KSU Foundation in January, 2005.  Dr. Wicker spent the previous five and a half years as Vice President of Major Gifts for United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta. In this capacity, Wicker led the Major Gifts staff growing:

  • Challenge grants and the Million Dollar Roundtable,
  • Alexis de Tocqueville Society ($10,000+ contributions),
  • Johnnetta B. Cole Society for Leadership Giving ($1,000-9,999),
  • Foundation Relations,
  • Individual giving (non-workplace contributions), and
  • Planned Giving.

He worked in a similar capacity with United Way of Central Indiana from 1995-1997. His development experience also includes five years as Director of Funds for Leadership and Education, Inc., a public foundation headquartered in Indianapolis; and four years as Director of Alumni & Development at Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus.

In each of his fund raising capacities, Wicker assisted in the planning and development for the single-largest gift to each organization. These included a multi-million dollar bequest at Georgia Southwestern College [sic. State University] in the late 1980s; a multi-million charitable trust benefiting Funds for Leadership and Education; a $50 million grant at United Way of Central Indiana (the largest single gift ever received by a United Way organization); and six million dollar gifts and multi-year challenge matches at United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta. 

While Wicker was at United Way in Metropolitan Atlanta, the Alexis de Tocqueville Society (minimum annual gifts of $10,000) grew from 277 members to 1,010 in five years, becoming the largest program of its kind in the nation, and the model program for United Way of America. The Johnnetta B. Cole Society for Leadership giving (minimum annual gifts of $1,000) grew from 5,000 to more than 10,000 member-contributors during his tenure. The Cole Society became the largest leadership giving society at any United Way in the country.

He earned a doctorate in Higher Education Administrative from the Institute of Higher Education at the University of Georgia in 1990, a Master’s degree in History from Georgia Southwestern in 1985, and a BA in History from the University of Alabama in 1981.

Wicker has served as President of the Foundation Chapter of Theta Chi Fraternity, Inc., a private 501(c)(3) educational endowment associated with his national fraternity. He has served as a faculty member and Chairman of The Foundations Seminar in Indianapolis, a faculty member of NAV (the National Academy of Volunteerism for United Way of America), and as a presenter at CASE (the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education).  He has made numerous presentations to the Association of Fundraising Professions in Georgia and Indianapolis. Wicker also chaired the Major Gifts Roundtable, an advisory counsel of Senior Professional Major Gift Officers for United Way of America from 2001-2003.

Dr. Wicker served as the 2005 Chairman for the Senior Professional Section of CASE, District III. He is on the Board of Directors of the Fulton Educational Foundation, and President-Elect of the Downtown Atlanta Kiwanis Club, one of the oldest chapters of the Kiwanis International (1918) and the fourth largest Kiwanis Club in the world.

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Flora B. Devine
Special Assistant to the President for Legal Affairs and Diversity

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Flora B. Devine, special assistant to the president for legal affairs and diversity at Kennesaw State University, is an attorney and educator. During her legal career, she has represented management in government, in the private sector and in higher education.  Her career in education includes executive-level administrative positions in legal affairs, organizational planning and marketing, and human resources. 

Devine began her career as a city attorney in the City of Atlanta Law Department and later joined a private law firm. Before joining the administration at DeKalb College as legal counsel, she worked with the Federal Environmental Protection Agency Region V. Devine has been an adjunct professor at Clark College, Georgia State University and Kennesaw State, teaching communications law, higher education law, conflict resolution and multiculturalism in education. She is a frequent trainer and consultant on workplace legal issues, including conflict resolution and mediation, and managing diversity issues in the workplace (including discrimination and equal employment issues such as sexual harassment, and leadership and organizational change). She is the architect of KSU’s New View of the Future Strategic Plan (1995) and the university’s first strategic plan for managing diversity (2001).

Devine’s recent community service includes past chair of the Georgia Indigent Defense Council (2004) and the Georgia Supreme Court Commission on Indigent Defense that developed the blueprint for overhauling the state system that provides lawyers for persons who cannot afford them. She is a former board member (two terms) of the National Association of College and University Attorneys and a Fellow of the American Council on Education.

Devine was recently inducted into the Martin Luther King, Jr. Board of Sponsors at Morehouse College in Atlanta.

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Arlethia Perry-Johnson
Special Assistant to the President for External Affairs

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Arlethia Perry-Johnson, special assistant to the president for external affairs, joined Kennesaw State University in October 2006 after serving nearly 12 years as associate vice chancellor for media and publications with the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. Her current responsibilities at KSU include serving as a member of the President’s Cabinet, supervising the University Relations department, and managing the university's legislative, community and public affairs.

Perry-Johnson has enjoyed a 25-year communications career that spans public, investor and media relations, launched after early success in print journalism and commercial and cable television.

Perry-Johnson joined the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia in February 1995 as an assistant vice chancellor, charged with building a new public relations operation and with elevating the university system's national profile. Named associate vice chancellor for media and publications in September 2002, she developed and implemented communications strategies that impacted, positioned and marketed the state's 35 public colleges and universities. Among her duties, Perry-Johnson served the Board of Regents as chief spokesperson, working daily with local, regional, national and international media, campus presidents and a wide array of statewide constituents. In addition, she served as project director of the university systemís nationally recognized African-American Male Initiative, aimed at enhancing black male participation in college, which she continues in her role at Kennesaw State.

Perry-Johnson launched her professional communications career as a junior in college, working as a general assignments reporter for the New Pittsburgh Courier. Moving from print to television, she worked as an assistant to the producer for "PM Magazine/Los Angeles" and as a co-anchor for a live cable television public affairs program, "On Cable Tonight," in Memphis, Tenn.

Perry-Johnson joined the public information department at Penn State University Park as a writer/editor in 1984. In 1987, she was promoted to director of university relations at Penn State Great Valley in suburban Philadelphia. She continued her career in increasingly responsible positions, serving as director of media and external relations at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; as manager of national (and investor) media relations for the Tennessee Valley Authority; and as executive director of the news bureau at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she was responsible for new operations on the academic and medical campuses.

Perry-Johnson also wrote as a freelance writer, contributing to such publications as the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Cincinnati Enquirer, the Philadelphia Tribune, Black Issues in Higher Education and other outlets.

A wife and mother, Perry-Johnson also is active in several professional and civic organizations. In 2004, she served as one of the co-conveners of the "State of the African American Male" conference in Atlanta, an initiative of U.S. Congressman Danny Davis. She is a graduate of the 2003-2004 Associates Program of the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, based in San Jose, Calif. She also is a graduate of the 1997 Class of Leadership Georgia and is included in the publication "Who's Who in Black Atlanta." Perry-Johnson serves on the executive committee of the Georgia Council on Economic Education and chaired its communications committee for four years. In addition, she serves on the board of directors and the executive committee of Communities In Schools of Georgia. She is a member and former secretary of the board of trustees of Region III of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). In 2001, she served as the program co-chair for CASE IIIís regional conference. She is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and the Atlanta Association of Black Journalists (AABJ), and chaired AABJ's Minority Scholarship Competition for two years (1998, 1999). Perry-Johnson also has been a Georgia network organizer for the Ms. Foundation's "Take Our Daughters To Work Day" event, which she supported upon its inception in 1993.

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Sarah Robbins, Ph.D
Faculty Executive Assistant to the President

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Sarah Robbins is the faculty executive assistant to the president, the first to hold this post at Kennesaw State University. A professor of English and English education, Sarah also teaches courses in American Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and other interdisciplinary fields. Robbins was named KSU's first Foundation Distinguished Professor in 2004-2005. She has twice won the Foundation prize for individual scholarship projects and has also been named one of KSU’s faculty award-winners for sustained excellence in scholarship. Robbins’s research agenda draws from both the scholarship of discovery and newer models of public engagement. She is the author of Managing Literacy, Mothering America: Women’s Narratives on Reading and Writing in the Nineteenth Century (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004; paperback 2006), which won an American Library Association Choice Award for outstanding academic writing, and The Cambridge Introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Winner of the American Studies Association’s Constance Rourke Prize for outstanding scholarship, Robbins has published in a wide range of academic journals, including American Quarterly, American Literature, Signs, College English, and The New England Quarterly.

Robbins is director of the Keeping and Creating American Communities (KCAC) program, an interdisciplinary curriculum development project initially funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and she was founding director of the National Writing Project (NWP) site at Kennesaw State — the Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project. Two books Robbins co-edited are based on collaborative research from KCAC partnerships for public scholarship: Writing Our Communities: Local Learning and Public Culture (National Council of Teachers of English press) and Writing America: Classroom Literacy as Public Work (published by Columbia University’s Teachers College Press). With English department colleagues Dede Yow, Carol Harrell and Linda Stewart, as well as K-12 affiliates of the Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project, Robbins has also co-written and co-edited Teachers' Writing Groups, published by the Kennesaw State University Press.

Robbins's current research projects include a scholarly edition of public writings by Nellie Arnott Darling, a missionary teacher who served in Angola (then Portuguese West Africa) in the early 20th century. Co-edited with Professor Emerita of History Ann Pullen, Robbins’s newest book will be published by Parlor Press of Purdue University. Entitled “You Are Helping in This Blessed Work,” the book includes interpretive essays setting Arnott’s experience in the larger context of colonialism in Africa, while also examining the ways in which missionary publications of that era intersected with other genres, such as women’s travel writing. Robbins’s longstanding research collaboration with Professor Pullen has also involved team teaching in Gender Studies, research on technology and teaching, and the development of a Web site on women's work in the long 19th century.

An award-winning teacher with both K-12 and university classroom experience, Robbins facilitates faculty development programs in a wide range of settings all over the country. A consultant for the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) professional development network, she has served on multiple committees and commissions for NCTE and led the secondary schools outreach committee of the American Studies Association.
Currently, Robbins is executive coordinator for the Modern Language Association's section on American literature and a member of the MLA’s convention program committee. Earlier, she was chair of the MLA's division on late 19th- and early 20th-century American literature. Robbins has also been a member of the National Writing Project’s leadership task force, a consultant for NWP sites around the country, a member of the editorial team for NWP@WORK (a publications series on teachers' professional development), and a leader of the NWP's inservice support network.

At KSU, Robbins' professional service has recently focused on the collaborative development of interdisciplinary programs in American studies and gender and women's studies. Earlier on, she helped establish Kennesaw State’s English education programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Robbins' work in collaborative humanities teaching earned her one of the Georgia Humanities Council's Governor's awards in 2006.

Robbins attended Agnes Scott College before transferring to University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where she earned a B.A. and an M.A. in English, with a support concentration in Italian. After working in K-12 and community college teaching for more than 10 years, Robbins completed an interdisciplinary doctoral program at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she was a Regents Fellow (UM’s highest competitive award for graduate students) and a Center for the Education of Women Scholar, and where she won several competitive research awards.

Professor Robbins and her husband John have two adult daughters—Margaret, a schoolteacher in Douglas County, Georgia, and Patty, a lawyer working in Virginia.

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Jennifer A. Wade-Berg
Chief Diversity Officer
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

robbins headshotDr. Jennifer A. Wade-Berg joined Kennesaw State University as the Chief Diversity Officer in August 2008.  She also has a tenure track faculty appointment with the Department of Political Science, where she will be teaching in the areas of Public Administration and Nonprofit Management.  Her research interests include alternative funding sources for nonprofit organizations, social entrepreneurship (and nonprofit business planning), diversity, and sports philanthropy. 

Prior to coming to Kennesaw State University, Dr. Wade-Berg was employed with the University of Colorado Denver. During her tenure, she held the position of Faculty Fellow for Inclusion with the Office of the Provost where she was responsible for the policies, procedures, and activities as they related to diversity and creating an inclusive campus environment.  She also taught courses in the areas of organizational management and nonprofit management (social entrepreneurship, funding diversity and etc) with the School of Public Affairs. 

A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Dr. Wade-Berg holds a doctorate in Public Administration (concentrations in public administration, public policy and nonprofit management) and a master in Public Administration (concentration local government) from the University of Georgia’s School of Public and International Affairs and a Bachelor of Arts in Government (emphasis American Politics) from Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT). 

She is a member of the Association of Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), the Academy of Management (AOM), and the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA).  Dr. Wade-Berg volunteers in the community through her involvement as a member of The Links, Incorporated and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and by serving on nonprofit boards of directors. 
The daughter of Lyndon and Shirley Wade, Jennifer is married to John Berg and they have one daughter, Skylar Alexandria Wade Berg.

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Lynda K. Johnson
Executive Assistant to the President

johnsonpicIn her capacity as executive assistant to the president, Lynda K. Johnson brings 27 years of experience in higher education. The past 23 have been with the Office of the President at Kennesaw State University. Before coming to Kennesaw State, Johnson spent eight years in corporate administration, five of which were with Fuqua Industries Inc. in Atlanta and the balance with Bahco Systems Inc., the U.S. corporate office of a Swedish-owned manufacturing company. She attended college at the University of Texas in Austin, Southern Polytechnic State University and KSU. Residing in east Cobb County with her husband, Skip, she is the mother of four grown children and grandmother of five.

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