Southern Regional Education Board Marks 350th Doctoral Program Graduate

"I have been indeed blessed to be an SREB scholar and feel honored to be the 350th graduate," Dr. Holmes said. "I tremendously benefited from the support and encouragement provided by SREB."

The SREB-State Doctoral Scholars Program was established in 1993 to address the long-standing national shortage of minority faculty members at institutions of higher learning. To date, SREB has provided assistance and training to more than 700 minority doctoral scholars to help them complete a Ph.D. and to encourage them to join the ranks of college faculty. More than 70 percent of program graduates are employed in SREB states, and more than 75 percent work on college and university campuses as faculty, administrators and postdoctoral researchers.

Dr. Holmes received a bachelor’s degree from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, along with master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Alabama. A native of Little Rock, Arkansas, she has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship in clinical child and adolescent psychology at the University of Michigan Medical Center.

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SREB, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization based in Atlanta, Georgia, advises state education leaders on ways to improve education. SREB was created in 1948 by Southern governors and legislatures to help leaders in education and government work cooperatively to advance education and improve the social and economic life of the region. SREB has 16 member states: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. Each is represented by its governor and four gubernatorial appointees.