Housatonic Community College has appointed Michael B. Brown as academic dean of the college.
Brown was previously provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at North Carolina”™s Wesleyan College. Prior to that, he was associate dean of the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences at East Carolina University, and was also a professor of psychology at the university.
Brown earned a Ph.D. in school psychology, a master”™s degree in family and child development, and a bachelor”™s degree in biology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He completed a pre-doctoral clinical psychology internship at Pennsylvania”™s Reading Hospital and Medical Center.