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Dianne Boardley Suber, 10th President of Saint Augustine’s College, assumed the presidency of the College on December 1, 1999. Under her presidency, the College has experienced increased enrollment, reinstituted the football program, fielded a marching band, expanded the adult learners program, established innovative degree granting programs to include Biomedical and Scientific Communication, Criminal Justice Forensic Science and the Center for Real Estate Development and Property Management and reinstated the dual degree program in Engineering with North Carolina State University.

The first female to lead the institution, Dr. Suber is an experienced educator and administrator with 30 years of teaching, consulting and administrative experience in preschool and higher education.  She has served as a classroom teacher; elementary and middle school principal, university professor and consultant to several national educational organizations. Prior to assuming the helm at Saint Augustine’s College,    Dr. Suber held administrative positions of increasing responsibility at Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia, including:  vice president for administrative services; assistant provost for academic affairs; assistant provost; dean of administrative services; and adjunct professor of Education in the Graduate College. Dr. Suber received a bachelor of science degree in early childhood education from Hampton (Institute) University, a master’s of education degree in curriculum development from the University of Illinois--Urbana and a doctorate of education degree in educational administration from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia. 

Dr. Suber has recently been appointed to serve on the Secretary of Education’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities Capital Financing Advisory Board. She also currently serves as a Commissioner for the American Council on Education (ACE) Commission on Women in Higher Education (OWHE). She currently serves as the Cooperating Raleigh Colleges (CRC), President. President Suber also serves on the Board of Directors of the Central Region of Wachovia Bank; the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA); the United Negro College Fund; the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU); the Business and Technology Center; the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce; the Communities In Schools of Wake County; and the Marbles Kids Museum. Dr. Suber is also a member of the United Negro College Fund’s Executive, Bylaws and Nominating Committees; the Association of Episcopal Colleges (AEC); the North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities, Executive and Nominating Committees; The Women’s Network of Wake County, Grants Committee; the Consortium of Doctors, LTD; the Southeast Raleigh Improvement Assembly; the Blue Ribbon Committee on the Future of Wake County; the Rotary Club, and she is a member of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Dr. Suber previously served on the former President’s Board of Advisors to the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Dr. Suber was featured in the October 2005 issue of Essence Magazine and in 2006, she was awarded The Willie E. Gary “Making A Difference Award.”  The 100 Black Men, Triangle East Chapter, awarded Dr. Suber the Education Award at their 2008 Gala “A Tribute to Women”, April 2008 and in 2010 Dr. Suber received the Dr. Effie H. Jones Humanitarian Award from the American Association of School Administrators (AASA).

Dr. Suber has two daughters - Nichole Reshan Lewis and her daughter Taylor Marie, who reside in Raleigh, North Carolina and Raegan LaTrese Thomas, who also lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband, Farah and their children, Nyjil Brevard Saint Thomas, and Samantha Ari Dianne Thomas.

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