Summary: | University president and academic administrator Elnora D. Daniel was born on November 19, 1941, in Oxford, North Carolina. She earned her B .A. degree from North Carolina A&T University, and her M.A. and Ed.D. degrees from Columbia University in New York City in 1968 and 1975, respectively. After a brief career as a nurse, Daniel began her career in education as a teaching assistant at Columbia University. In 1980, Daniel became a professor and dean at Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia. During her fifteen-year career at Hampton, she was the interdisciplinary Nursing Center for Health and Wellness, and was appointed provost and executive vice president. In 1998, Daniel was appointed president of Chicago State University She resigned in 2008. Daniel achieved the rank of colonel in the Army Nursing Reserve Corps. She was also hired by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to serve as a consultant on international healthcare reform in several African nations.
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